The company is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our team in Dubai. We are seeking someone to help us build innovative new features, prepare our technology to scale, and assist in shaping our engineering organization. The ideal candidate should be a creative thinker excited to tackle complex problems and build solutions from the ground up, with the ability to move quickly, articulate trade-offs clearly, and independently own features.
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Responsibilities
- Collaborate with world-class product, design, operations, and engineering teams to determine which features and solutions will deliver the most value for the business and the best experience for our users.
- Own and ship end-to-end reliable, scalable, and maintainable software that will keep our users’ funds safe and endure over time. Responsibilities include taking features from design, implementation, polish, to shipping, as well as monitoring and measuring progress.
- Foster a high-performance culture through mentoring engineers, promoting best practices, and creating an environment where engineers can thrive and grow.
- Design and build a cloud-native platform by leveraging main features for monitoring, observability, security, scalability, elasticity, and testing.
- Improve CI/CD workflows to reduce time-to-market for new features.
- Help shape our engineering culture by introducing good practices and methods of knowledge-sharing.
Requirements
- 4+ years of software development experience.
- Experience working on systems that handle money.
- Familiarity with Node.js, GraphQL, Postgres, ElasticSearch, or Kafka.
- Proven experience in shipping and maintaining complex backends.
Key skills and characteristics
- Be an owner as well as a team player.
- Demonstrate curiosity and eagerness to grow.
- Ability to define and effectively communicate technical and design requirements.
- Write clean, high-quality, testable, reusable, and well-documented code.
- Possess strong data-driven thinking and a customer focus.
- Exhibit excellent communication skills and a desire to collaborate.
- Must live in, or be willing to relocate to the UAE.
Our tech stack
Our modular architecture is built on reliability, scalability, and maintainability principles. The current stack includes:
- Typescript, Node.js, and Nest.js for the main application’s backend.
- Swift/SwiftUI for the iOS app, Kotlin for Android.
- Next.js, React, and Typescript for our web applications.
- GraphQL Federation for client-facing APIs and Kafka for inter-service communication.
- PostgreSQL for consistent and durable storage, Redis for quick fetching, and Elasticsearch for rapid searching.
- AWS for cloud infrastructure hosting and Kubernetes for workload orchestration.
- Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Github Actions for CI/CD.
