Software Development Engineer 3

About This Role

Job title: Software Development Engineer 3

Location: UAE

About noon

We’re building an ecosystem of digital products and services that power everyday life across the Middle East—fast, scalable, and deeply customer-centric. Our mission is to deliver to every door every day. We want to redefine what technology can do in this region, and we’re looking for a Software Development Engineer 3 who can help us move even faster.

noon’s mission: Every door, every day.

Who are we?

noon.com is a technology leader with a simple mission: to be the best place to buy and sell

things. In doing this, we hope to accelerate the digital economy of the Middle East, empowering

regional talent and businesses to meet the full range of consumers' online needs.

noon operates without boundaries; we are aggressively and voraciously ambitious. Starting in

2017 with noon.com, the region’s homegrown e-commerce platform and leading online

shopping destination, noon is now a digital ecosystem of products and services.

What you’ll be doing

● Technical Leadership & Architecture: Leading the architectural vision for noon’s mobile

applications, ensuring performance, scalability, and long-term maintainability of our

cross-platform codebase.

● Cultivating Product Engineers: Moving beyond task delegation to mentor and grow

"Product Engineers"—developers who understand the why behind the features and

contribute to the product's success beyond just the code.

● Bench Building: Proactively identifying, hiring, and developing talent to build a strong

"bench." You will be responsible for succession planning and ensuring the team has the

depth to handle aggressive growth.

● Agile Excellence: Operating as a cornerstone in a high-velocity Agile/Scrum

environment. You will lead technical grooming, assist in sprint planning, and ensure that

the team delivers high-quality increments consistently.

● Performance Engineering: Championing the optimization of app vitals, specifically TTR

(Time to Render), FPS stability, and bundle size to ensure a "liquid" user experience

across all device tiers.

● Security Standards: Promoting and implementing mobile security best practices. You will

ensure the team is aligned with industry standards such as OWASP MASVS,

implementing measures like SSL Pinning, secure storage, and code obfuscation.

● Engineering Excellence: Establishing "guardrail" systems, such as automated

performance regression testing and static analysis to identify potential security

vulnerabilities early in the SDLC.

● REST Strategy: Collaborating with Backend Architects to design mobile-optimized

RESTful interfaces that prioritize payload efficiency, caching, and offline-first capabilities.

What you’ll need

● Experience: 6+ years of professional software development experience, with at least 5

years specializing in high-scale React Native applications.

● Leadership & Growth Mindset: A proven track record of growing engineers from

SDE-1/2 . You have a passion for building teams and creating a pipeline of future

technical leaders.

● Agile Mastery: Deep experience with Scrum methodologies, including a strong

understanding of how to manage technical debt within a fast-paced sprint cycle.

● Product Sense: An ability to think like a Product Manager. You advocate for the user and

can translate business requirements into robust technical architectures.

● Native Expertise: Deep, "under-the-hood" knowledge of iOS (Swift/Obj-C) and Android

(Kotlin/Java) to bridge the gap between React Native and the hardware.

● Security Awareness: Deep understanding of mobile-specific threats and security

frameworks (e.g., OWASP). Experience with biometric authentication, secure token

handling (JWT/OAuth2), and data encryption.

● Performance Engineering: Proficiency in profiling tools (Flipper, Xcode Instruments,

Android Profiler) to identify memory leaks, over-rendering, and bridge bottlenecks.

● Tooling & DevOps: Expertise in build tools (Metro, Gradle, Xcodebuild) and CI/CD

pipelines (Fastlane, Bitrise, or GitHub Actions) for automated mobile deployments.

Who will excel?

• We’re looking for people with high standards, who understand that hard work matters.
• You need to be relentlessly resourceful and operate with a deep bias for action.
• We need people with the courage to be fiercely original.
• noon is not for everyone; readiness to adapt, pivot, and learn is essential.