Senior/Lead Software Engineer - Backend

Position Type: Full-time

Locations: Riyadh (Onsite) / Egypt (Remote)

Job Summary:

We are seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer to join our Backend team. You will own the design, development, and operation of backend systems that power our Decision Intelligence platform — from core microservices and API layers through to data architecture and event-driven pipelines. This is a high-impact role where you take full ownership of what you ship.

Backend System Development

• Design, develop, and maintain modular backend components 

• Build both synchronous and event-driven services

• Implement core infrastructure: dynamic configuration, service discovery, and system orchestration

• Build asynchronous processing pipelines, background jobs, and event-driven workflows

API Development & Management

• Design and maintain highly-available API endpoints (RESTful, GraphQL, gRPC)

• Ensure API reliability, versioning, and documentation standards across services

• Implement rate limiting, caching strategies, and API gateway patterns

Database & Data Architecture

• Design and implement database schemas and data models (relational, document, or hybrid)

• Optimize queries, manage migrations, and ensure data integrity across services

• Work with data engineers on ingestion, transformation, and serving layers

Infrastructure & Deployment

• Work with containerized deployments (Docker, ECS, EKS) and AWS cloud infrastructure

• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting for backend services

Collaboration, Code Quality & Security

• Work closely with frontend, data, platform, and DevOps teams to deliver integrated solutions

• Contribute to architectural discussions and technical decision-making

• Mentor mid-level and junior engineers on backend engineering best practices

• Write high-quality, well-tested production code with comprehensive unit and integration tests

• Enforce security best practices: authentication, authorization, encryption, input validation

• Conduct and participate in code reviews to maintain code quality

Qualifications

Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

Experience: Minimum of 5 years in software engineering, with strong backend development expertise and a track record of building production systems.

Technical Skills:

• Strong proficiency in Java/Kotlin with hands-on experience in Spring Boot and the Spring ecosystem (Spring MVC, Spring Data, Spring Security, Spring Cloud)

• Solid understanding of system design: microservices, event-driven architecture, API design patterns, and data modeling

• Strong API development experience (RESTful, GraphQL, gRPC) including designing and maintaining highly-available endpoints

• Hands-on experience with AWS — ECS, Lambda, SQS/SNS, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, API Gateway

• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Redis, AWS Aurora)

• Practical experience with Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), and container-based deployments

• Familiarity with modern authentication schemes such as OAuth, JWTs, or cookies

• Strong testing practices: unit tests, integration tests, and familiarity with testing frameworks

• Strong understanding of database schema design, query optimization, and data modeling

• Excellent communication and leadership skills, adaptable, self-motivated, and capable of thriving in a fast-paced, unstructured startup environment

• Strong ownership mentality — you ship it, you run it, you own it

Nice to Have

• Experience with building scalable, high-reliability, or data-intensive backend systems

• Experience with event-driven architectures and message brokers (Kafka, SQS/SNS, EventBridge)

• Exposure to Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation)

• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog, CloudWatch)

• Experience with AI/ML-adjacent systems — building backends that serve or integrate machine learning models and data pipelines

• Familiarity with multi-tenant architecture patterns

• Experience working in fast-paced startup environments, contributing to rapid development and delivery-driven projects