Senior Software Engineer

About the role

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join a fast‑growing ecommerce platform in the United Arab Emirates. The role focuses on designing, building and operating high‑scale backend systems that handle global payments, subscriptions and reporting for digital products.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of high‑availability backend features for payments, billing, settlement, refunds and reporting.
• Build and maintain integrations with external payment processors, card networks and alternative payment methods.
• Design scalable, secure service‑oriented architectures with a strong emphasis on reliability and performance.
• Debug and resolve complex production issues across money‑movement flows, ensuring minimal downtime.
• Break down large technical initiatives into incremental, agile‑ready tasks.
• Participate in architecture, design and code reviews to uphold engineering standards.
• Collaborate with product, risk, finance and compliance teams to meet regulatory and business requirements.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines, testing strategies and deployment processes.
• Mentor junior engineers and promote best practices.
• Identify performance bottlenecks and drive continuous system optimisation.

Required profile

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience delivering production‑grade SaaS or backend systems.
• Strong expertise in Java and building distributed, service‑oriented architectures.
• Solid experience with SQL (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases in production.
• Proven track record designing and implementing RESTful APIs and scalable backend services.
• Hands‑on experience with AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, DynamoDB; Lambda a plus).

Required skills

• Java
• SQL (PostgreSQL)
• NoSQL (DynamoDB)
• RESTful API design
• AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, Lambda)
• Distributed systems
• Service‑oriented architecture
• CI/CD pipelines
• Automated testing
• Deployment automation