Senior Backend Engineer

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.

You will be working on:

• 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.
• 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.
• Deal with Docker containers, Kubernetes manifests, all this on Google Cloud Platform.
• Coaching and mentoring other team members as a senior member of the team and member of our Backend Chapter
• 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.

Requirements

• More than 5 years of experience in one of these programming languages like GoLang, RoR, Java, or Python.
• Strong experience with common monitoring/alerting/logging tools such as Prometheus, New Relic, Datadog, ELK stack, and distributed tracing.
• You’ve built complex, high-quality applications, and have a strong knowledge of Domain Driven Design and microservice architecture.
• You’re proficient in selecting from best practice Design Patterns and Design Principles when building your Software Architectures and Algorithms
• Good knowledge of databases (PostgreSQL and NOSQL). (You should be aware of normal forms, ACID, isolation levels, and index anatomy).
• Flexible and open-minded personality and comfortable working in a multicultural environment and in English.
• Familiar with the following; Docker & Kubernetes, GCP, AWS, terraform, and caching.
• Experienced using TDD approach during development.