Senior Software Engineer - Backend
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About the Role
HungerStation is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join their Riyadh office. You will work on architectural decisions, migrate monolithic applications to microservices, and mentor team members.
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Responsibilities
- Take part in architectural decision making on a platform used by millions
- Actively participate in migrating monolithic application into Microservices
- Design, improve, and secure overall backend architecture to support massive growth
- Deal with Docker containers, Kubernetes manifests on Google Cloud Platform
- Coach and mentor other team members as a senior member of the Backend Chapter
- Embrace Design Driven Development, SOLID Principles, Event driven Architecture, and automated tests
- Participate in test coverage, refactoring, and documentation
- Show off code review, debugging, and investigation skills
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in backend development using GoLang, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Java, or Python
- Strong database expertise with PostgreSQL and NoSQL databases
- Proficiency in monitoring, alerting, and logging tools such as Grafana
- Deep understanding of software architecture, including Domain Driven Design (DDD), microservices, Kubernetes, and containerization
- Experience with monolithic migration
- Strong testing mindset with experience writing unit and integration tests
- Adaptability and problem solving skills
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Job Description
- We are looking for a highly talented Senior Backend Engineer to join our Riyadh office.
- The ideal candidate will have a track record as a significant individual contributor as well as a strong team player.
You Will Be Working On
- Take part in architectural decision making on a platform that is used by millions of people.
- Actively participate in migrating our monolithic application into Microservices.
- Playing an active role in designing, improving and most importantly securing the overall backend architecture to support massive growth in users and products without compromise.
- Deal with Docker containers, Kubernetes manifests, all this on Google Cloud Platform.
- Coaching and mentoring other team members as a senior member of the team and member of our Backend Chapter.
- We embrace Design Driven Development, SOLID Principles, Event driven Architecture, Algorithms and automated tests (unit, integration and functional).
- Understanding development lifecycle and collaborating with cross functional and agile teams.
- Participate in the continuous and common effort of test coverage, refactoring and documentation.
- Showing off your code review, debugging and investigation skills on a regular basis.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in backend development using GoLang, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Java, or Python.
- Strong database expertise with PostgreSQL and NoSQL databases. You should have a solid understanding of normal forms, ACID principles, isolation levels, indexing, query optimization, and memory caching (e.g., Redis, Memcached).
- Proficiency in monitoring, alerting, and logging tools such as Grafana.
- Deep understanding of software architecture, including Domain Driven Design (DDD), microservices, Kubernetes, and containerization.
- Experience with monolithic migration.
- Strong testing mindset with experience writing unit and integration tests to ensure code quality and reliability.
- Adaptability & problem solving skills – Ability to navigate ambiguity, work in a dynamic, fast paced environment, and make informed decisions.
Additional Information
- We offer relocation support globally to our permanent employees.
- Exchange ideas and meet 2000+ colleagues from different teams within Delivery Hero in our active guilds and through our global tech and product community.
- Develop your skills with your personal educational budget for conferences and external training.
- Access our e learning platform LinkedIn and participate in our various in house training programs.
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