Salla
Senior Backend Engineer - Checkout
Remote role where the employee must remain based in a particular country.
Saudi Arabia only
Employer listed it 5 weeks ago · Found 36m ago
Been open since 5 weeks ago, still being checked, but it has been live a while.
Salary
Not stated
Location
Saudi Arabia only
Work style
Async
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Senior
Category
Software
This employer didn't state pay. Jobs like this usually pay around $160k–$220k a year, a typical range taken from 597 senior-level software roles on Nomaders that do state pay. It's a guide, not an offer.
Remote flexibility
Work from home
This is a remote role, but the employee must be based in Saudi Arabia. It is work from home rather than work from anywhere.
What the employer says
- Source listing states candidate location: "Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Jeddah, Makkah Province, Saudi Arabia, Jeddah, Makkah Province, Saudi Arabia, Remote"
What Nomaders makes of it
- Residency required in Saudi Arabia
- Payroll and tax are likely handled in that country only
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About the role
We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer - Checkout to join our engineering team focused on Fintech, Checkout, and Promotions. You will design, build, and scale highly available backend systems that power mission-critical payment experiences, checkout flows, promotions, loyalty, pricing, and financial services.
This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy solving complex distributed systems problems, building high-performance services, and designing software that operates reliably at scale. You'll work closely with Product, Design, Data, and Engineering teams to deliver resilient, observable, and maintainable systems that directly impact millions of transactions.
We value engineers with strong software engineering fundamentals who embrace modern development practices, including leveraging AI to improve engineering productivity, software quality, testing, debugging, and delivery speed.
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.
Participate in architecture discussions, technical design reviews, RFCs, and engineering planning.
Ensure services are production-ready through monitoring, logging, alerting, testing, and observability best practices.
Write comprehensive unit and integration tests while maintaining high engineering standards through code reviews.
Leverage AI-assisted engineering tools responsibly to accelerate development, debugging, testing, documentation, and code quality.
Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through technical leadership, design discussions, and engineering best practices.
Contribute throughout the full software development lifecycle, from design through deployment and production support.
Continuously improve system reliability, developer experience, and engineering standards across the team.
Requirements
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.
Proven ability to write clean, maintainable, efficient, and high-performance production code.
Requirements
- ·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.
Benefits
No benefits package published with this listing. Ask about it at first interview.
How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, work from home, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at Salla, mentioning your remote working experience and working hours (Async).
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
Found 37m ago. Last checked today. Always confirm the details on the original posting, salary and location can change after publication.
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