Senior Software Engineer – Backend

• Own significant features and services end to end in the team's domain, architecting them with well-accepted patterns for iterative, autonomous development and future scale
• Apply bounded contexts and minimise cross-service dependencies so failures stay contained
• Ship production-ready, self-documenting code and set standards for AI-assisted development
• Apply TDD and mocks where appropriate, refactor towards testability, and ensure tested code is merged
• Diagnose issues within services and across service boundaries, tune monitoring, and use operational and business metrics for stability and performance
• Participate actively in the team's on-call
• Identify vulnerabilities, apply secure defaults for authentication, input validation, and data handling, and design for abuse prevention
• Communicate blockers, delays, and cost overruns early; resolve dependencies and drive continuous improvement
• Mentor teammates, build support redundancy, and maintain runbooks and ADRs

• 5–8 years building production software, with deep ownership of services in a live, revenue-carrying system
• Strong depth in at least one of DZ's stacks (TypeScript, Go, C#) plus solid Postgres and AWS working knowledge, and the curiosity to get productive in the others
• Real expertise in a domain you've held for a while: the services, how they interact, and how data flows between them not just the parts you wrote
• A security and abuse lens by default: solid OWASP grasp, correct handling of secrets and sensitive data, and an understanding of payment-surface threats such as card testing and credential handling
• The judgement to weigh cost against value, including where AI leverage genuinely saves time versus where it adds risk someone will pay for later
• Communication that lands with technical and non-technical audiences alike, a habit of seeking feedback as readily as giving it, and comfort with open, respectful disagreement

• Immediate, large-scale impact on a high-growth business
• Top-of-the-market compensation packages
• Work alongside top regional talent, with team members from Talabat, Careem, Etisalat, and more