Principal Backend Engineer – High-Volume Messaging

Neobankbeat; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 500,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

Bybit is seeking a Principal Backend Development Engineer to evolve the Reach Platform across push, SMS, email, and messaging channels. You will own architecture design, performance, and operations for a high-volume delivery chain, collaborating across Compliance, Security, Product, Frontend, QA, Data, and third-party providers.

This is an on-site role in Abu Dhabi or Kuala Lumpur. You will build a scalable, observable system with strong ownership and incident response skills, leveraging

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field, with at least five years of backend development experience.
• Strong proficiency in Go or Java and distributed systems design for high-concurrency messaging.
• Experience with Kafka including consumer groups and lag monitoring.
• Familiarity with Redis, rate limiting, distributed locks, and hot-key management.
• Familiarity with MySQL schema design, sharding, indexes, and slow query remediation.
• Experience with gRPC-based microservices and service discovery using Nacos.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes deployments and horizontal pod autoscaling (HPA).
• Ability to design solutions independently with ownership and strong incident response.
• Familiarity with AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot.
• Work location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, or Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Go

Java

Distributed systems

Kafka

Redis

MySQL

gRPC

Nacos

Kubernetes

HPA

AI coding tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Kafka

Redis

MySQL

gRPC

Nacos

Kubernetes

Job description

Bybit is seeking a Principal Backend Development Engineer to evolve the Reach Platform across push, SMS, email, and messaging channels. You will own architecture design, performance, and operations for a high-volume delivery chain, collaborating across Compliance, Security, Product, Frontend, QA, Data, and third-party providers.

This is an on-site role in Abu Dhabi or Kuala Lumpur. You will build a scalable, observable system with strong ownership and incident response skills, leveraging