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Senior Backend Engineer – Checkout
Location
Saudi Arabia
Posted
3 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Backend Engineer – Checkout
Salla E-Commerce Platform
• Design, build, and operate scalable backend services supporting Fintech, Checkout, Promotions, Loyalty, and Payment systems. • Develop clean, maintainable, and high-performance production code with readability and long-term ownership in mind. • Design and evolve RESTful APIs and integrations with internal platforms, payment gateways, and third-party services. • Build reliable distributed systems capable of handling high traffic, failures, and asynchronous workloads. • Drive architectural decisions with scalability, resilience, maintainability, and operational excellence in mind. • Optimize application performance across services, databases, caching layers, queues, and background workers. • Participate in architecture discussions, technical design reviews, RFCs, and engineering planning. • Ensure services are production-ready through monitoring, logging, alerting, testing, and observability best practices. • Write comprehensive unit and integration tests while maintaining high engineering standards through code reviews. • Leverage AI-assisted engineering tools responsibly to accelerate development, debugging, testing, documentation, and code quality. • Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through technical leadership, design discussions, and engineering best practices. • Contribute throughout the full software development lifecycle, from design through deployment and production support. • Continuously improve system reliability, developer experience, and engineering standards across the team.
Job Requirements
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience building production backend systems.
- Strong experience building scalable backend services in at least one modern language such as PHP, Go, Java, or C#.
- Experience with PHP and Laravel is preferred but not required.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals, including consistency, availability, concurrency, fault tolerance, idempotency, asynchronous processing, messaging, and caching.
- Experience designing and operating high-scale, highly available backend systems.
- Proven ability to write clean, maintainable, efficient, and high-performance production code.
- Strong understanding of software engineering principles, including SOLID, design patterns, clean architecture, and domain-driven design concepts.
- Experience designing RESTful APIs and integrating with third-party platforms and payment providers.
- Strong SQL knowledge with experience designing and optimizing MySQL or PostgreSQL databases.
- Experience with caching technologies, queues, background workers, and performance optimization.
- Experience writing automated tests, participating in code reviews, and working within modern CI/CD pipelines.
- Comfortable using AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity, software design, implementation, testing, debugging, documentation, and code reviews.
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