Senior Backend Engineer - AI-Driven Microservices

Westay; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 300,000 - 450,000; Full time

Job summary

Westay is building a modern travel platform in the UAE and seeks a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer focused on backend. You will design and develop scalable backend services, APIs, and data-driven systems, while contributing to React/Next.js apps when needed.

You will work with Node.js, TypeScript, microservices, PostgreSQL, Redis, and cloud-native patterns on Azure or AWS. This role emphasizes collaboration, code quality, security, and adopting AI-assisted tooling to boost productivity.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, backend focus.
• Strong Node.js and TypeScript hands-on expertise, preferably NestJS.
• Experience with microservices, distributed systems, REST APIs, and event-driven architecture.
• Strong experience with PostgreSQL and Redis, including caching strategies and performance tuning.
• Ability to contribute to React/Next.js frontend when required.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and microservices using Node.js, TypeScript, and NestJS or similar frameworks.
• Design and maintain reliable REST APIs and integrations with external suppliers, payment platforms, content systems, and other third‑party services.
• Design and optimize PostgreSQL databases, including data modelling, indexing, query optimization, transactions, and performance.
• Implement effective caching and performance optimization using Redis.
• Build and maintain event‑driven and asynchronous processing using Azure Service Bus or similar messaging technologies.
• Contribute to React/Next.js web applications when required, including frontend development, API integration, and end‑to‑end troubleshooting.
• Actively use AI‑assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or equivalent tools for coding, debugging, testing, refactoring, code review, documentation, and engineering productivity.
• Identify opportunities to use AI, LLMs, automation, or AI agents to improve engineering workflows or build product capabilities.
• Ensure AI‑generated code and solutions are properly reviewed, tested, secured, and validated before being incorporated into production systems.
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code and maintain appropriate unit, integration, and API/contract tests.
• Apply secure development practices covering authentication, authorization, API security, data protection, and common web vulnerabilities.
• Participate actively in architecture discussions, system design, code reviews, technical decision‑making, and mentoring.
• Work closely with frontend, QA, DevOps, and product teams on integration, CI/CD, production deployments, monitoring, and troubleshooting.

Skills

Node.js

TypeScript

NestJS

Microservices

PostgreSQL

Redis

React

Next.js

Azure

AWS

Kafka

RabbitMQ

SQS

Git

Docker

CI/CD

AI tools

Tools

NestJS

Azure

AWS

Kafka

RabbitMQ

SQS

PostgreSQL

Redis

Git

Docker

CI/CD

Next.js

React

Job description

Westay is building a modern travel platform in the UAE and seeks a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer focused on backend. You will design and develop scalable backend services, APIs, and data-driven systems, while contributing to React/Next.js apps when needed.

You will work with Node.js, TypeScript, microservices, PostgreSQL, Redis, and cloud-native patterns on Azure or AWS. This role emphasizes collaboration, code quality, security, and adopting AI-assisted tooling to boost productivity.