Senior Backend Engineer — Scalable, AI-Driven Systems

Yello

Dubai

On-site

AED 400,000 - 600,000

Full time

14 days+

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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.