Senior Product Engineer - Backend
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About the Role
Tamara is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and maintain APIs and services for its fintech platform.
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Responsibilities
- Design, build and maintain APIs, services, and systems across Tamara’s engineering teams.
- Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack.
- Work with engineers across the company to build delightful features that span various parts of the system.
- Collaborate with business, product, and operations teams to understand and solve users’ pain points.
Requirements
- 6+ years of software development experience
- Strong software development experience building scalable products and services
- Good understanding of SOLID principles and Design Patterns
- Knowledge of AWS, OCI, Kubernetes/Docker
- Experience with distributed systems with messaging tools like Kafka or RabbitMQ
- Experience with Agile/Scrum
- Proactive, goal oriented, and self structured approach
- Team player, creative thinker, passionate about exploring new technologies
- Good written and spoken communication skills in English
- Knowledge of JavaScript, Vue.js, HTML and CSS is a plus
- Experience as a developer in a startup company is a plus
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About Us
- Tamara is the leading fintech platform in Saudi Arabia and the wider GCC region, building a customer centric financial super app.
- The company serves millions of users and partners with global and regional brands like SHEIN, Jarir, noon, IKEA, and Amazon.
- Tamara is Saudi Arabia’s first fintech unicorn, backed by Sanabil Investments, SNB Capital, Checkout.com, and others.
Your Role
- We're seeking Backend Engineers to lead building cutting edge platforms for seamless and scalable transactions.
- You will design, develop, and optimize secure and robust software infrastructure for payment, shopping, and banking systems.
- You will collaborate with engineers, designers, analysts, and product experts to solve complex problems.
Your Responsibilities
- Design, build and maintain APIs, services, and systems across Tamara’s engineering teams.
- Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack.
- Work with engineers across the company to build delightful features that span various parts of the system.
- Collaborate with our business, product, and operations teams to understand and solve our users’ pain points.
Your Expertise
- 6+ years of software development experience.
- Strong software development experience building scalable products and services.
- Good understanding of SOLID principles, Design Patterns.
- Knowledge of AWS, OCI, Kubernetes/Docker.
- Experience with distributed systems with messaging tools like Kafka or RabbitMQ.
- Experience with Agile/Scrum.
- Knowledge of JavaScript, Vue.js, HTML and CSS is a plus.
- Proactive, goal oriented, and self structured approach.
- Experience as a developer in a startup company is a plus.
- Team player, creative thinker, and passionate about exploring new technologies.
- Good written and spoken communication skills in English.
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