Senior Backend Engineer for a High-Traffic Marketplace

Property Finder

Dubai

On-site

AED 300,000 - 540,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Property Finder is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build the services behind the region's leading property marketplace. You will design and own backend services, focusing on TypeScript, while supporting Go services and guiding architectural decisions across teams.

You will collaborate with product, design, and mobile/web engineers to create well-architected, scalable systems and drive reliability through observability and best practices in a high-traffic environment.

Qualifications

> 6+ years backend engineering experience in high-traffic, consumer-facing systems.
Strong proficiency in TypeScript (Node.js) for backend development.
> Go experience with production services.
> Microservices: API design, boundaries, versioning & inter-service communication.
> AWS (ECS/EKS, Lambda, SQS/SNS, CloudFront, RDS, ElastiCache) on Kubernetes.
> Databases and caching (MySQL/PostgreSQL, OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, Redis).
> Event-driven architectures (Kafka, SQS).
> Observability and reliability: metrics, logging, tracing, SLOs.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and operate backend services powering core marketplace experiences.
Own your work end to end: design, implement, test, deploy, monitor, iterate.
Build services in TypeScript; maintain Go services.
Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to translate requirements.
Drive operational excellence: monitoring, incident response, reliability improvements.
Mentor engineers, review designs and PRs, help define backend standards.