Job Description

Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer – Checkout

Job Description: As a Senior Backend Engineer – Checkout at a leading e-commerce and fintech platform in Saudi Arabia, you will design, build, and scale highly available backend systems that power mission-critical payment experiences, checkout flows, promotions, loyalty, pricing, and financial services. You will work closely with Product, Design, Data, and Engineering teams to deliver resilient, observable, and maintainable systems that directly impact millions of transactions.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and operate scalable backend services supporting Fintech, Checkout, Promotions, Loyalty, and Payment systems
• Develop clean, maintainable, and high-performance production code with readability and long-term ownership in mind
• Design and evolve RESTful APIs and integrations with internal platforms, payment gateways, and third-party services
• Build reliable distributed systems capable of handling high traffic, failures, and asynchronous workloads
• Drive architectural decisions with scalability, resilience, maintainability, and operational excellence in mind
• Optimize application performance across services, databases, caching layers, queues, and background workers
• Write comprehensive unit and integration tests while maintaining high engineering standards through code reviews
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through technical leadership, design discussions, and engineering best practices

Qualifications Needed:

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience building production backend systems
• Strong experience building scalable backend services in at least one modern language such as PHP, Go, Java, or C#
• Experience with PHP and Laravel is preferred but not required
• Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals, including consistency, availability, concurrency, fault tolerance, idempotency, asynchronous processing, messaging, and caching
• Experience designing and operating high-scale, highly available backend systems
• Strong SQL knowledge with experience designing and optimizing MySQL or PostgreSQL databases
• Experience writing automated tests, participating in code reviews, and working within modern CI/CD pipelines
• Experience building Fintech, Payments, Checkout, Loyalty, Pricing, Promotions, or other high-volume transactional systems is preferred

What the Company Offers:

• Senior Backend Engineer role at a leading platform building the future of e-commerce and fintech in the Kingdom
• Opportunity to work on systems that power millions of transactions
• Work with a team of experienced engineers in a fast-paced technology-driven environment

Are you interested in this position? Apply by clicking on the “Apply Now” button below!

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