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Senior Backend Engineer

United Arab Emirates Permanent View Job Description
Join a lean, high-calibre engineering team building distributed systems at significant scale. Design resilient backend services, drive architectural decisions, and solve complex performance challenges for a high-growth financial services platform
  • Design ultra-scale distributed systems handling massive throughput
  • Own architecture, performance and reliability in a lean environment

About Our Client

Our client is a technology-led financial services organisation building highly sophisticated platforms that operate at significant scale.

Job Description

  • Architect and build large-scale distributed systems capable of supporting millions of users and tens of thousands of requests per second.
  • Design event-driven architectures, partitioning strategies, and highly scalable data platforms with a focus on reliability and fault tolerance.
  • Lead performance optimisation initiatives across application, infrastructure, storage, networking, and caching layers.
  • Own systems end-to-end, from architecture and development through production operations and continuous improvement.
  • Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies, including AI-driven capabilities, to solve complex engineering and business challenges.



The Successful Applicant

  • Extensive backend engineering experience building highly scalable, distributed systems in production environments.
  • Proven experience operating services handling 20,000-30,000+ requests per second and large-scale user traffic.
  • Deep expertise in system design, distributed architecture, concurrency, partitioning, consistency models, and performance engineering.
  • Demonstrated success solving complex scaling, latency, reliability, and availability challenges in mission-critical platforms.
  • Strong technical curiosity with the ability to rapidly learn new technologies, domains, and AI capabilities independently.



What's on Offer

  • Opportunity to solve genuinely complex engineering problems at significant scale within a highly technical environment.
  • Competitive compensation package alongside strong career growth and exposure to cutting-edge platform engineering challenges.



Contact
Manpreet Kaur
Quote job ref
JN-012026-6928265

Job summary

Sector
Technology
Subsector
IT Development
Industry
Technology & Telecoms
Where
United Arab Emirates
Contract type
Permanent
Consultant name
Manpreet Kaur
Job reference
JN-012026-6928265