Senior Backend Engineer — Scale & Reliability Architect

Tanqeeb

Abu Dhabi

On-site

AED 600,000 - 900,000

Full time

7 days ago
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Job summary

Tanqeeb in the United Arab Emirates is seeking an experienced backend architect to design and build large-scale distributed systems for a high-growth financial services platform. You will drive architectural decisions and tackle significant performance challenges, building resilient services and scalable data platforms.

Lead end-to-end ownership from design to production operations, while evaluating emerging technologies including AI-driven capabilities to address complex engineering and

Qualifications

  • Extensive backend engineering experience building scalable distributed systems in production.
  • Proven ability to operate services handling millions of requests per second and large user traffic.
  • Deep expertise in system design, concurrency, partitioning, consistency, and performance engineering.
  • Track record of solving scaling, latency, reliability, and availability challenges in mission-critical platforms.
  • Strong technical curiosity and ability to learn new technologies and AI capabilities quickly.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and build large-scale distributed systems supporting millions of users.
  • Design event-driven architectures, partitioning strategies, and scalable data platforms.
  • Lead performance optimisation across application, infrastructure, storage, networking, and caching.
  • Own systems end-to-end from architecture through production operations and improvement.
  • Evaluate emerging technologies, including AI-driven capabilities, to solve engineering challenges.

Skills

Backend engineering
Distributed systems
System design
Performance engineering
Concurrency
Partitioning
AI capabilities awareness

Tools

Cloud platforms

Job description

Tanqeeb in the United Arab Emirates is seeking an experienced backend architect to design and build large-scale distributed systems for a high-growth financial services platform. You will drive architectural decisions and tackle significant performance challenges, building resilient services and scalable data platforms.

Lead end-to-end ownership from design to production operations, while evaluating emerging technologies including AI-driven capabilities to address complex engineering and

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