Senior Backend Engineer

Justlife; Dubai; On-site; AED 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship and coaching

Extra day off on your birthday

Free Justlife credits

Job summary

Justlife is seeking a Senior Software Engineer – Backend in Dubai, UAE. In this role, you will own backend services that are core to our marketplace. You will tackle complex problems in real-time order tracking, API optimization, and database performance.

The ideal candidate has extensive experience in Java, Spring Boot, and relational databases. We offer mentorship, career development, and benefits like extra days off and recognition programs.

Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in Java and hands-on experience with Spring Boot.
• Deep comfort with relational databases (MySQL) and ORM frameworks like Hibernate.
• Experience designing distributed systems with message queues and caching.

Responsibilities

• Take end-to-end ownership of services in the marketplace.
• Design and optimize APIs for third-party integrations.
• Participate in an on-call rota that's fair and well-supported.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

MySQL

RabbitMQ

Redis

PHP

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

Job description

Senior Software Engineer – Backend

Location: Dubai, UAE
Type: Full-time

Every line of backend code you write at Justlife moves the real world. Our dispatching engine routes thousands of trained professionals to real homes across the GCC — over 15 million sessions and counting. Backend here isn’t a back office; it’s the engine of the business.

We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer who wants to own hard problems at scale and help shape how we build, not just inherit it.

What you’ll own

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll take end-to-end ownership of services that sit at the core of our marketplace — setting technical direction in your domain, raising the engineering bar, and mentoring the engineers around you. Responsibilities include:

• Smart matching at scale: customer-to-supplier dispatching algorithms that match demand to the right professional in real time.
• Live operations: real-time order tracking and the availability & assignment systems behind it.
• Platform & integrations: designing and optimizing APIs for third-party integrations, with API-first development and end-to-end testing.
• Data & reliability: database modeling, a safer and more flexible attribute‑management system, and performance at scale.
• Experimentation & AI: A/B experimentation structures and prototyping with AI tools to ship and learn faster.
• Helping evolve a legacy PHP 7 service (Symfony/Doctrine) and migrating it onto our Java platform.
• Participating in an on‑call rota that is fair, shared, and well‑supported.

What we’re looking for (must‑have)

• Strong proficiency in Java and hands‑on experience with Spring Boot (MVC architecture, RESTful services).
• Deep comfort with relational databases (MySQL) and ORM frameworks such as Hibernate.
• Experience designing distributed, high‑throughput systems — message queues (RabbitMQ) and caching (Redis).
• Solid grasp of SOLID principles, object‑oriented design and design patterns, with strong code quality and testing discipline (unit and integration tests).
• Senior‑level ownership: you can take a service from design to production, make sound technical trade‑offs, and lift the people around you.

Nice to have

• Experience with NoSQL (MongoDB).
• Exposure to AI agents and automation frameworks.
• Cloud and container experience (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes).
• Comfort with Git‑based workflows and CI/CD.
• Experience with PHP.

Benefits

Mentorship and coaching, training, fast‑track career paths, and a fair, objective performance system. We also take care of everyday life: an extra day off on your birthday, free Justlife credits for our own services, recognition through our JustHeroes program, and a referral bonus when you bring in great people.

Equal‑Opportunity Employer

Justlife is an equal‑opportunity employer. We hire on the strength of your skills and potential, and we welcome applicants of every background, nationality, and experience.