Senior Backend Engineer

Yello; Dubai; On-site; AED 400,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Yello, a technology-led financial services organisation, seeks senior backend engineers to architect and build large-scale distributed systems. You will design event-driven architectures, optimize performance, and own systems end-to-end from design to production operations.

Expect work handling millions of users and high-throughput traffic, with opportunities to explore AI-driven capabilities. Join a team focused on reliability, scalability, and adopting cutting-edge technologies to solve

Qualifications

• Extensive backend engineering experience building scalable distributed systems.
• Experience handling 20,000-30,000+ requests per second.
• Deep expertise in system design, concurrency, partitioning, and performance engineering.
• Ability to learn new technologies and AI capabilities independently.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Distributed systems design

Back-end engineering

Performance optimization

System design

Concurrency

Partitioning

Reliability engineering

AI capabilities learning

Job description

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

• 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.

• 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.