We are looking for a highly talented Senior Backend Engineer to join our team in Riyadh. If you are looking for a place where you can gain hands-on experience and create a direct impact, then this may be the place for you! The ideal candidate will have a track record as a significant individual contributor as well as a strong team player, supporting a team, and working closely with the management teams to drive strategic initiatives forward across the region.
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Responsibilities
- Take part in architectural decision-making on a platform that is used by millions of people.
- Actively participate in migrating our monolithic application into Microservices.
- Play an active role in designing, improving, and securing the overall backend architecture to support massive growth in users and products.
- Deal with Docker containers, Kubernetes manifests, all this on Google Cloud Platform.
- Coach and mentor other team members as a senior member of the team.
- Embrace Design Driven Development, SOLID Principles, Event-driven Architecture, Algorithms, and automated tests (unit, integration, and functional).
- Collaborate with cross-functional and agile teams throughout the development lifecycle.
- Participate in the continuous effort of test coverage, refactoring, and documentation.
- Demonstrate code review, debugging, and investigation skills on a regular basis.
Qualifications
- More than 4 years of experience in programming languages such as GoLang, RoR, Java, Node JS, .Net, or Python.
- Strong knowledge of monitoring, alerting, and logging tools such as Prometheus, New Relic, Datadog, ELK stack, and distributed tracing.
- Experience building complex, high-quality applications with knowledge of Domain Driven Design and microservice architecture.
- Proficient in best practice Design Patterns and Principles for Software Architecture and Algorithms.
- Good knowledge of databases (PostgreSQL and NoSQL).
- Flexible and open-minded personality, comfortable working in a multicultural environment in English.
- Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, GCP, AWS, Terraform, and caching.
- Knowledge of TDD approach during development.
Work Conditions
- We offer relocation support globally to our permanent employees.
- Opportunity to connect with and meet 2000+ colleagues from different teams within the company.
- Personal educational budget for conferences and external training.
- Access to our e-learning platform LinkedIn and participation in various in-house training programs.
- And much more…
Location
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
