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Backend Engineer
Location
United Arab Emirates
Posted
119 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Backend Engineer
Sarwa ثروة
• Be on the front line in solving some of the most pressing technical challenges we face. • Develop and maintain a microservice architecture that spans services such as Investing, Trading, Account Management, Funding • Create services that scale to tens of thousands of clients • Own and deliver software projects on time by proactively working with stakeholders from product/tech/marketing/operations/sales in problem solving and helping elaborate the requirements, business logic and scope of the solution • Create great quality products and services by solving the problem with good architecture and algorithms that work now and tomorrow, managing complexity, ensuring data consistency, making sure it all runs well at scale, and of course handling errors by creating robust and resilient systems • Test developed code with automated unit/integration tests • Create tools and processes to help you and other members of the team develop high quality code faster, as well as to help the team support and maintain products/services running in production • Continuously learn and apply new practices and technologies, and propagating those learnings within the team.
Job Requirements
- Have strong experience with Python/Go and any backend framework (e.g. Django, GoLang, .Net, Laravel, Rails, ...) in a production system with a sizable user base or handling a large volume of data
- Have strong problem-solving skills to build robust systems that not only work but are maintainable and will scale with the company
- Have strong fundamentals in backend architecture patterns including; understanding of databases, APIs, caching and security practices
- Experience in and understanding of micro-services, domain-driven architecture, clean architecture, and event sourcing is a strong plus
- Have excellent teamwork, written and communication skills, with the ability to communicate technical concepts and decisions to both technical and non-technical team members
- Passion for the work, drive to experiment, learn new tech, try new solutions, always looking for ways to improve and grow
- Demonstrated ownership in leading/participating in a project that went from infancy to production
- Ability to execute by making decisions around trade-offs of simplicity, readability, performance, and speed-of-implementation
Benefits
- Remote-first and flexible work environment
- Diverse, driven and supportive team with a positive work atmosphere (one of our core values)
- A culture of growth - being mentored, coached and supported to grow in your career
- Great company healthcare package
- Learning and development budget
- No fees on Sarwa's products
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