Lead Backend Platform Engineer, Messaging & Scale

Bybit Limited; Dubai; Hybrid; AED 350,000 - 650,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Study Growth Fund

Internal events

Global collaboration

Career advancement

Internal mobility

Job summary

Bybit is seeking a seasoned backend engineer to develop and maintain the Reach Platform backend across push, SMS, email, WhatsApp, and other channels. You will work with Compliance, Security, Product, Frontend, QA, Data, and external providers to ensure reliable messaging for Bybit’s global sites.

The role emphasizes architecture ownership, performance optimization, and scalable delivery, across high-volume campaigns and regional requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS or related field.
• 5+ years backend development experience.
• Proficiency in Go or Java and distributed systems design.
• Kafka experience with consumer groups and lag monitoring.
• Redis caching, rate limiting, and distributed locks.
• MySQL schema design, sharding, indexing, and slow query remediation.
• gRPC-based microservices and service discovery with Nacos.
• Kubernetes deployments and horizontal pod autoscaling.
• Strong ownership and incident response mindset.
• Experience using AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot).

Responsibilities

• Develop the Reach Platform backend and its core capabilities across push notifications, SMS, email, WhatsApp, and other messaging channels.
• Own architecture design, feature development, performance optimization, reliability, and day-to-day operations for the delivery chain.
• Build unified, reliable, scalable messaging infrastructure for multiple sites and business lines.
• Improve platform reliability and observability with monitoring, alerts, logs, tracing, and SLOs.
• Collaborate with Product, Frontend, client engineering, QA, Data, Compliance, Security, Procurement, and third parties to support compliant messaging globally.

Skills

Go or Java

Distributed systems design

High-concurrency messaging

Kafka experience

Redis caching

MySQL schema design

gRPC microservices

Kubernetes deployments

System design

AI coding tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Nacos

Firebase Cloud Messaging

APNs

Job description

Bybit is seeking a seasoned backend engineer to develop and maintain the Reach Platform backend across push, SMS, email, WhatsApp, and other channels. You will work with Compliance, Security, Product, Frontend, QA, Data, and external providers to ensure reliable messaging for Bybit’s global sites.

The role emphasizes architecture ownership, performance optimization, and scalable delivery, across high-volume campaigns and regional requirements.