Senior Backend Engineer - Protection

About the role

A global payments technology company is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer on its Protection team, based in the United Arab Emirates. The role designs and develops scalable solutions for payment dispute management, fraud prevention and risk automation, and takes ownership of critical backend systems from architecture and implementation through deployment, monitoring and continuous improvement. It is a fully remote position.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build, deploy and maintain backend systems, making architectural decisions on service boundaries, integration patterns and data models
• Develop automation for payment disputes, including notifications, deadline tracking, evidence collection and response workflows
• Integrate additional payment service providers and expand dispute management coverage across the payment network
• Collaborate with third-party fraud prevention providers (Riskified, Forter, Signifyd, Sift) to build a unified experience for comparing and switching between fraud solutions
• Build native risk management capabilities such as velocity rules, blocklists, device fingerprinting and configurable automation
• Work with Engineering Managers and Product Managers to turn merchant challenges into practical technical solutions
• Support dashboard frontend development when needed, and set up testing, code reviews, monitoring, on-call processes and team conventions
• Mentor colleagues and share expertise

Required profile

• Proven experience owning backend systems end to end, from architecture and development through deployment and monitoring
• Experience building systems from scratch and mentoring engineers
• Experience in payments, fraud prevention, risk management or another complex domain is advantageous; familiarity with card scheme rules, chargebacks and dispute workflows is a plus
• Experience integrating third-party fraud vendors, building webhook-based event systems, rules engines or working with orchestration platforms is beneficial
• Willingness to contribute to frontend development when necessary

Required skills

• Strong software engineering and system design skills, with scalable backend architecture
• High standards for code quality, testing and reliability
• Excellent communication and collaboration in a remote, distributed environment

What we offer

• Fully remote work from Poland in a globally distributed organisation
• Competitive compensation and employee share options
• Flexible paid leave of at least 25 days per year
• Coworking access, workations and company retreats
• Home office allowance of GBP 500 and a learning budget
• Private medical insurance and equipment tailored to the role