# Senior Backend Engineer

**Company:** [TAWANTECH](null/companies/piLvdXFhcyDhza9LCgay1S.md)
**Location:** Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
**Workplace:** on site
**Employment type:** Full-time
**Department:** IT

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## Description

Purpose:

To design, develop, and optimize complex backend systems and services, ensuring scalability, security, performance, and reliability while contributing to technical standards and engineering improvements. 

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

-   Design and develop scalable backend services and APIs in Java and Spring Boot within a microservices architecture. 

-   Own delivery of complex features end to end, from technical design through production. 

-   Design and optimize database interactions, integrations, and inter-service communication. 

-   Build and operate event-driven flows using Kafka and enterprise messaging. 

-   Ensure solutions meet security, performance, availability, and maintainability requirements. 

-   Apply secure coding practices for authentication, authorization, encryption, and sensitive data handling. 

-   Conduct code reviews and uphold engineering standards across the squad. 

-   Troubleshoot complex production issues and implement durable fixes. 

-   Contribute to technical design decisions and application architecture. 

-   Improve CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, deployment, and observability on OpenShift/Kubernetes. 

-   Identify technical debt and drive improvements to design and code quality. 

-   Mentor junior engineers and share knowledge across the chapter.

## Requirements

QUALIFICATIONS:

-   Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field. 

-   4 years of backend engineering experience. 

-   Strong Java, Spring Boot, REST API design, SQL, and Git. 

-   Hands-on experience with containers, CI/CD, and distributed systems (Good to have) 

-   Payments or regulated financial services experience preferred (Good to have)