Senior Backend Engineer | Dubai

Moove; Dubai; On-site; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mobility technology company is looking for a highly skilled Senior Backend Engineer in Dubai. This role involves designing, building, and maintaining scalable backend systems that drive business growth and user satisfaction. The ideal candidate has 7 years of experience in backend or full-stack roles and expertise in modern frameworks like Python, Java, or Go. You will work in a collaborative team, focusing on delivering impactful solutions while ensuring performance and reliability. Join us to transform mobility and foster economic opportunities.

Benefits

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Collaborative team environment

Opportunity for professional growth

Qualifications

• 7 years of experience in backend or full-stack engineering roles.
• Strong expertise in modern frameworks and languages.
• Experience with performance tuning and scaling databases.

Responsibilities

• Own business problems from identification to solution delivery.
• Design and implement full-stack solutions.
• Ship measurable improvements weekly.

Skills

Backend development expertise

API design and consumption

Microservices architecture

Cloud infrastructure

Problem-solving skills

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering

Tools

Python

Java

Go

Relational databases

NoSQL databases

Job description

About Moove

Moove is building the world’s largest fleet and best-in-class technologies that power mobility platforms. Its flagship Drive-to-Own (DTO) product democratizes access to vehicle ownership with a revolutionary revenue-based financing model enabling underserved mobility entrepreneurs to thrive.

Moove’s growth has been fueled by its global Uber partnership and support of leading investors and lenders including Uber Mubadala BlackRock MUFG and many others. With operations now spanning 19 cities across 6 continents—Africa Asia Europe North America South America and the Middle East—Moove continues to expand its offerings through strategic acquisitions and partnerships with industry leaders including Waymo and Uber. Moove is transforming mobility to make it safer, more efficient and accessible to all while providing economic opportunities and supporting skills development in the mobility sector.

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Backend Engineer who can autonomously design, build and maintain the critical systems that power our platform. You will think like a product owner, identifying business opportunities and driving technical solutions that deliver measurable impact. This role involves working across the stack, ensuring backend services seamlessly integrate with frontend experiences while maintaining performance, scalability and reliability.

What You’ll Be Doing

This role exists to deliver robust, scalable and high-performing backend systems that directly drive business growth and user satisfaction.

Critical Outcomes for the next 6-12 months include:

• Designing and delivering impactful full-stack features with measurable business value.
• Implementing optimizations to improve system performance and scalability.
• Proactively identifying and addressing opportunities across the technical stack.

Core Responsibilities:

• Own business problems end-to-end from opportunity identification to solution delivery.
• Design and implement full-stack solutions connecting frontend experiences to backend systems.
• Build with business metrics in mind, not just technical completeness.
• Proactively identify optimization opportunities across our technical stack.
• Ship measurable improvements weekly that drive business outcomes.

What You’ll Need for this position

• 7 years of experience in backend or full-stack engineering roles.
• Strong expertise in backend development with experience in modern frameworks and languages (e.g., Python Java Go).
• Proficiency in designing and consuming APIs, microservices architecture and cloud-based infrastructure.
• Solid understanding of frontend technologies and how they interact with backend systems.
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases, performance tuning and scaling.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field.
• Strong problem-solving skills, product mindset and ability to work independently.

Key Metrics

• Weekly delivery of features or optimizations with measurable impact on business metrics.
• Reduction in system latency, downtime and resource utilization.
• Positive stakeholder feedback on feature quality, performance and delivery speed.
• Increased efficiency and scalability of backend systems.

Who You’ll Be Working with: Directly reporting to our Head of Engineering and closely working with our Technology Team.

About the team

Our team is collaborative, positive, curious and engaged. We think fast, work smart, laugh often and are looking for like-minded people to join us in our mission to disrupt vehicle ownership and make financial freedom within reach.

Moove is strongly committed to diversity within its community. The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we welcome people from all backgrounds who seek the opportunity to help build a future where everyone and everything can move independently.

Pre-hiring Notice: Moove relies on the accuracy of information contained in employment applications as well as the accuracy of other data presented throughout the hiring process and during employment. Any misrepresentations, falsifications or material omissions in any information or data provided by an applicant may result in the applicant being excluded from further consideration for employment or, if an individual has already been hired, termination of employment.

EEO Statement: Moove is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, political affiliation or any other protected characteristic.