Senior Backend Engineer

Tanqeeb; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Tanqeeb in the United Arab Emirates is seeking an experienced backend architect to design and build large-scale distributed systems for a high-growth financial services platform. You will drive architectural decisions and tackle significant performance challenges, building resilient services and scalable data platforms.

Lead end-to-end ownership from design to production operations, while evaluating emerging technologies including AI-driven capabilities to address complex engineering and

Qualifications

• Extensive backend engineering experience building scalable distributed systems in production.
• Proven ability to operate services handling millions of requests per second and large user traffic.
• Deep expertise in system design, concurrency, partitioning, consistency, and performance engineering.
• Track record of solving scaling, latency, reliability, and availability challenges in mission-critical platforms.
• Strong technical curiosity and ability to learn new technologies and AI capabilities quickly.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build large-scale distributed systems supporting millions of users.
• Design event-driven architectures, partitioning strategies, and scalable data platforms.
• Lead performance optimisation across application, infrastructure, storage, networking, and caching.
• Own systems end-to-end from architecture through production operations and improvement.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, including AI-driven capabilities, to solve engineering challenges.

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

System design

Performance engineering

Concurrency

Partitioning

AI capabilities awareness

Tools

Cloud platforms

Job description

Job description

Join a lean, high-calibre engineering team building distributed systems at significant scale. Design resilient backend services, drive architectural decisions, and solve complex performance challenges for a high-growth financial services platform

Client Details

Our client is a technology-led financial services organisation building highly sophisticated platforms that operate at significant scale.

Description

Architect and build large-scale distributed systems capable of supporting millions of users and tens of thousands of requests per second.

Design event-driven architectures, partitioning strategies, and highly scalable data platforms with a focus on reliability and fault tolerance.

Lead performance optimisation initiatives across application, infrastructure, storage, networking, and caching layers.

Own systems end-to-end, from architecture and development through production operations and continuous improvement.

Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies, including AI-driven capabilities, to solve complex engineering and business challenges.

Profile

Extensive backend engineering experience building highly scalable, distributed systems in production environments.

Proven experience operating services handling 20,000-30,000+ requests per second and large-scale user traffic.

Deep expertise in system design, distributed architecture, concurrency, partitioning, consistency models, and performance engineering.

Demonstrated success solving complex scaling, latency, reliability, and availability challenges in mission-critical platforms.

Strong technical curiosity with the ability to rapidly learn new technologies, domains, and AI capabilities independently.

Job Offer

Opportunity to solve genuinely complex engineering problems at significant scale within a highly technical environment.

Competitive compensation package alongside strong career growth and exposure to cutting-edge platform engineering challenges.

Skills

BACKEND