Backend Engineer - Multi-Merchant Checkout & Payments

808Labs; Dubai; On-site; AED 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

808labs in Dubai and Riyadh is seeking an experienced backend engineer to own the hard parts of its multi-merchant checkout. You will connect to commerce providers, handle payments, refunds, and ensure order state reliability under real traffic.

You will work with the CTO on Getti/Ignite integrations across the GCC, writing production-grade Python/FastAPI code and collaborating with a small remote team.

Qualifications

• Several years of backend engineering experience shipping production APIs.
• Hands-on experience with webhooks, async jobs and idempotent payment flows.
• Experience with payments or checkout including authorise/capture, refunds and failure recovery.
• Clear written English for API notes, runbooks and Slack with a small remote team.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement multi-merchant checkout and payments flows.
• Build and maintain integrations with commerce providers and merchant platforms (APIs, webhooks, sandboxes and production cutovers).
• Own API contracts, fixtures and reconciliation so Getti and other clients can trust order and payment status.
• Document integration runbooks so support and ops can diagnose payment and order issues quickly.

Skills

Backend engineering

Webhooks

Async jobs

Idempotent payments

Payments/checkout

English communication

Tools

Python

FastAPI

Docker

GitHub Actions

Job description

808labs in Dubai and Riyadh is seeking an experienced backend engineer to own the hard parts of its multi-merchant checkout. You will connect to commerce providers, handle payments, refunds, and ensure order state reliability under real traffic.

You will work with the CTO on Getti/Ignite integrations across the GCC, writing production-grade Python/FastAPI code and collaborating with a small remote team.