Intern Backend (Go) Engineer
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About the Role
Tabby offers a paid backend engineering internship for strong early-career engineers. Interns work on production code in Go, developing and maintaining backend services, APIs, and data storage for high-load financial systems.
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Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain backend services using Go
- Work with relational and in memory data stores
- Contribute to API development and service to service integrations
- Participate in designing and evolving backend components
- Read and understand existing system architecture and data flows
- Write code with a focus on correctness, reliability, and maintainability
- Participate in code reviews and technical discussions
- Fix real bugs and address technical debt in production systems
Requirements
- Strong fundamentals in computer science and backend development
- Solid programming skills in Go or strong base in another backend language with readiness to work in Go
- Understanding of HTTP, APIs, and basic distributed system concepts
- Understanding of how backend services interact with databases and other services
- Ability to read, understand, and modify existing codebases
- Experience with Git and standard development workflows
- Open to constructive feedback
- English sufficient for documentation and team communication
- Saudi nationals only (Saudi passport required)
- Full time level of engagement throughout the internship
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Description
- Tabby builds financial products used by millions of users across the GCC.
- This internship is an engineering role with real responsibility.
- Backend engineers work on distributed services, APIs, data storage, integrations, and internal platforms.
- The internship is designed for strong early career engineers.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain backend services using Go
- Work with relational and in memory data stores
- Contribute to API development and service to service integrations
- Participate in designing and evolving backend components
- Read and understand existing system architecture and data flows
- Write code with a focus on correctness, reliability, and maintainability
- Participate in code reviews and technical discussions
- Fix real bugs and address technical debt in production systems
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
- Strong fundamentals in computer science and backend development
- Solid programming skills in Go or a strong base in another backend language with readiness to work in Go
- Understanding of HTTP, APIs, and basic distributed system concepts
- Understanding of how backend services interact with databases and other services
- Ability to read, understand, and modify existing codebases
- Experience with Git and standard development workflows
- Open to constructive feedback
- English sufficient for documentation and team communication
- Hands on experience with Go
- Experience with SQL databases (PostgreSQL or similar)
- Basic understanding of concurrency and parallelism
- Familiarity with containers and basic infrastructure concepts
Format
- Paid internship
- Full integration into an engineering team
- Distributed engineering team across multiple countries
- Open to Saudi nationals (Saudi passport required); location flexible
- Office first in Riyadh where possible
- Clear path to a junior or middle role based on performance
About Tabby
- Tabby creates financial freedom in the way people shop, earn and save.
- Flagship offering allows shoppers to split payments online and in store with no interest or fees.
- Over 32,000 global brands and small businesses use Tabby.
- Tabby has generated over $7 billion in transaction volume.
- Launched in 2020 and raised +$1 billion in equity and debt funding.
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