The company is part of the Delivery Hero Group, a pioneering local delivery platform operating in over 70 countries. Our mission is to deliver an amazing experience—fast, easy, and to your door. We are seeking a highly talented Senior Backend Engineer to join our Shopping domain - Checkout team in Riyadh.
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This role is ideal for individuals looking to gain hands-on experience and create a direct impact. The successful candidate will have a track record as a significant individual contributor and a strong team player, collaborating closely with management to drive strategic initiatives.
Location: Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (On-site)
Work Conditions: Contract
Job Description:
- Participate in architectural decision-making on a platform used by millions of users.
- Actively assist in migrating our monolithic application into Microservices.
- Design, improve, and secure the backend architecture to support substantial growth in users and products.
- Work with Docker containers and Kubernetes on Google Cloud Platform.
- Mentor and coach team members as a senior member of the team.
- Embrace Design Driven Development, SOLID Principles, Event-driven Architecture, Algorithms, and automated tests.
- Collaborate with cross-functional and agile teams throughout the development lifecycle.
- Engage in efforts for test coverage, refactoring, and documentation.
- Conduct code reviews and debug as needed.
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience in backend development using GoLang, Ruby on Rails, Java, or Python.
- Strong expertise in PostgreSQL and NoSQL databases, with a solid understanding of normal forms, ACID principles, isolation levels, indexing, query optimization, and memory caching technologies (e.g., Redis, Memcached).
- Proficiency in monitoring, alerting, and logging tools such as Grafana.
- Deep understanding of software architecture, including Domain-Driven Design, microservices, Kubernetes, and containerization.
- Experienced in monolithic migration.
- Strong testing mindset with experience in writing unit and integration tests to ensure code quality and reliability.
- Adaptable with strong problem-solving skills to navigate ambiguity in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
Additional Information:
- We offer relocation support globally to our permanent employees.
- Engage with over 2000 colleagues from various teams within Delivery Hero.
- Access to a personal educational budget for conferences and external training.
- Participate in our e-learning platform and various in-house training programs.
