Senior Backend Engineer

Durlston Partners LLP; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 260,000 - 520,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tax-free compensation

Medical & life insurance for family

Discretionary annual bonus

Job summary

Confidential private investment firm in Abu Dhabi is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and operate a highly concurrent, large-scale distributed backend system. The role focuses on architecture, scale, and reliability deep in the systems layer.

You will work with Kafka, Redis, and other distributed architectures, solving latency and throughput challenges in production. A strong background in Linux, networking, and multi-threading is required.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering large-scale distributed backend systems.
• Proficiency in at least one core language (Python/Java/Go/C++).
• Strong knowledge of concurrency, partitioning, replication, and fault tolerance.
• Experience with Kafka or similar messaging systems; Redis caching.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate large-scale distributed backend systems handling high volumes of concurrent traffic
• Own performance optimisation, scalability, and reliability across production systems
• Debug and troubleshoot complex issues in high-throughput production environments
• Work across networking, Linux, and core operating systems fundamentals as part of day to day engineering
• Work with technologies such as Kafka, Redis, and other distributed backend architectures

Skills

Distributed systems

Concurrency

Asynchronous processing

Python

Java

Go

C++

Kafka

Redis

Linux fundamentals

Networking

Tools

Kafka

Redis

Linux

Job description

A confidential private investment firm in Abu Dhabi is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to work on a highly concurrent, large-scale distributed backend system. This is a genuine backend engineering role centred on architecture, scale, and reliability, sitting deep in the systems layer rather than the application layer.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate large-scale distributed backend systems handling high volumes of concurrent traffic
• Own performance optimisation, scalability, and reliability across production systems
• Debug and troubleshoot complex issues in high-throughput production environments
• Work across networking, Linux, and core operating systems fundamentals as part of day to day engineering
• Work with technologies such as Kafka, Redis, and other distributed backend architectures

What You'll Bring

• Deep experience with distributed systems design, including consistency models, partitioning, replication, and fault tolerance
• Strong grasp of concurrency, multithreading, and asynchronous processing under real production load
• Experience with a core programming language such as Python, Java, Go, or C++
• Experience with message queues and event-driven architectures such as Kafka or equivalent
• Caching strategies and in-memory data stores such as Redis at scale
• Strong fundamentals in networking protocols, load balancing, and Linux internals
• Experience diagnosing and resolving latency, throughput, and reliability issues in live systems
• Comfortable using AI coding tools day to day

Compensation and Benefits

• Strong, fully tax-free compensation package
• Medical and life insurance extended to family
• Discretionary annual bonus