Staff / Principal Backend Engineer
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AjaibFintech / Investment
Open to candidates in eligible locations, including the MENA region, Poland, the UAE, and EgyptFull-TimeStaff
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Job Details
- Languages
- English
- Experience
- Typically eight to ten or more years for Staff-level; twelve or more years for Principal-level.
- Required Skills
- AWSDockerPostgreSQLJavaKafkaKubernetesMySQLGoMicroservicesDistributed Systems
Requirements
- Strong professional software-engineering experience, including ownership of complex production systems.
- Expert-level backend development experience using Java, Golang, or both.
- Deep knowledge of distributed systems, microservices, event-driven architecture, API design, and domain-driven design.
- Experience designing and operating reliable systems at significant scale.
- Strong experience with Kafka or similar event-streaming technologies.
- Experience with Redis and relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL.
- Experience with Cassandra or similar NoSQL databases.
- Strong understanding of Kubernetes, Docker, and containerised infrastructure.
- Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure.
- Strong written and spoken English.
- Staff-level: Typically 8-10+ years of experience; Principal-level: Typically 12+ years of experience.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and evolution of mission-critical backend systems.
- Own architecture across multiple products, services, and engineering squads.
- Design scalable distributed systems capable of supporting millions of customers and high transaction volumes.
- Drive architecture decisions across product, platform, infrastructure, security, and data teams.
- Improve system reliability, performance, security, observability, and operational resilience.
- Lead the modernisation of backend platforms, legacy systems, developer tooling, and engineering workflows.
- Mentor Senior Engineers and help them develop towards Staff-level responsibilities.
- Partner with Engineering Directors, Heads of Engineering, and Product Leadership on strategic technology investments.
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