Senior Back End Developer

apricot; Dubai; Hybrid; AED 440,000 - 551,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial technology company based in Dubai is seeking an experienced software developer with over 6 years of experience, particularly in developing systems that manage money. The role involves collaborating with various teams, owning the software lifecycle from design to deployment, and designing a cloud-native platform. Candidates should have experience with Node.js, GraphQL, and AWS among others. Relocation to Dubai is provided, making it an exciting opportunity for candidates open to moving to the UAE.

Qualifications

• 6+ years developing software.
• Experience working on systems that handle money.
• Experience shipping and maintaining complex backends.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product, design, operations, and engineering teams.
• Own and ship end‑to‑end reliable, scalable, and maintainable software.
• Design and build a cloud‑native platform with monitoring and security features.
• Improve CI/CD workflows to reduce time‑to‑market for new features.

Skills

Node.js

GraphQL

Postgres

Elasticsearch

Kafka

Typescript

Node.js and Nest.js

Swift/SwiftUI

Kotlin

Next.js

React

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

Open to relocation to Dubai, United Arab Emirates | Posted on 10/21/2025

This is an exciting opportunity for candidates based in the UAE, or who are open to relocating to the UAE, as this offer includes a relocation package.

What You'll Do:

• Collaborate with world‑class product, design, operations, and engineering teams to determine which features and solutions will deliver the most value for the business and the best experience for our users
• Own and ship end‑to‑end reliable, scalable, and maintainable software that will keep our users’ funds safe and stand the test of time. You will take features from design, to implementation, to polish, to shipping, to monitoring and measuring progress
• Foster a high‑performance culture by mentoring engineers, promoting best practices, and creating an environment where engineers can thrive and grow
• Design and build a cloud‑native platform while leveraging the main features for monitoring, observability, security, scalability, elasticity, and testing
• Improve CI/CD workflows to reduce time‑to‑market for new features
• Help shape our engineering culture by introducing good practices and methods of knowledge‑sharing

Requirements

• 6+ years developing software
• Experience working on systems that handle money
• Experience with Node.js, GraphQL, Postgres, ElasticSearch, or Kafka
• Experience shipping and maintaining complex backends
• Typescript, Node.js and Nest.js for our main application’s backend
• Swift/SwiftUI for our iOS app, Kotlin for our Android app
• Next.js, React and Typescript for our web applications
• GraphQL Federation for our client‑facing APIs and Kafka for our inter‑service communication
• PostgresSQL for consistent and durable storage, Redis for quick fetching, Elasticsearch for quick searching
• AWS for hosting our cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes for orchestrating our workloads