Staff Software Engineer - Backend

We are looking for a highly talented Staff Software Engineer - Backend to join our team in Riyadh. If you are seeking a position where you can showcase your hands-on experience and drive engineering excellence, this may be the opportunity for you! The ideal candidate will have a proven track record as a significant individual contributor and a strong team player, capable of driving complex tech initiatives end-to-end across multiple teams.

Your responsibilities include:

• Own technical agenda and drive complex technical initiatives within your domain
• Being a go-to person for your engineering community with your deep tech expertise
• Setting standards of engineering excellence and lead engineers by own example
• Coaching and mentoring other engineers as a senior member of our Backend chapter
• Play a major role in architectural decision making on a platform that is used by millions of people
• Playing an active role in designing, improving and most importantly securing the overall backend architecture to support massive growth in users and products without compromise
• Support teams in infrastructure management in a cloud environment
• We embrace Design Driven Development, SOLID Principles, Event-driven Architecture, Algorithms and automated tests (unit, integration and functional)
• Understanding development lifecycle and collaborating with cross-functional and agile teams
• Participate in the continuous and common effort of test coverage, refactoring and documentation
• Showing off your code review, debugging and investigation skills on a regular basis

Qualifications

• More than 8 years experience in several programming languages like GoLang, RoR, Java, Python, NodeJs, PHP
• Tech evangelist: Be present on a local technical scene (meetups, LinkedIn, stackoverflow, etc.)
• Strong experience with common observability tools such as Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, etc.
• You’ve played a major role building complex, high-quality applications, and have a strong knowledge of Domain Driven Design and microservice architecture
• You’re expert in selecting from best practice Design Patterns and Design Principles when building your Software Architectures and Algorithms
• Strong knowledge of several databases and their tradeoffs, like Postgresql, MySQL and NoSQL
• Flexible and open-minded personality and comfortable working with multiple teams
• Strong experience working with Docker & Kubernetes, GCP, AWS, terraform
  Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia