Senior Backend Engineer - Ultra-Scale Systems

eFinancialCareers Ltd.; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

eFinancialCareers Ltd. in Abu Dhabi is seeking a Senior Backend Architect to design and build ultra-scale distributed systems that support millions of users and tens of thousands of requests per second.

You will lead event-driven architectures, partitioning strategies, and highly scalable data platforms with a focus on reliability and fault tolerance, while driving performance improvements across the stack and adopting emerging technologies, including AI capabilities.

Qualifications

• Extensive backend engineering experience building highly scalable distributed systems.
• Proven ability to design for high throughput and fault tolerance.
• Expertise in performance engineering and latency optimization.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Distributed systems

Performance engineering

System design

Concurrency

Reliability

Job description

eFinancialCareers Ltd. in Abu Dhabi is seeking a Senior Backend Architect to design and build ultra-scale distributed systems that support millions of users and tens of thousands of requests per second.

You will lead event-driven architectures, partitioning strategies, and highly scalable data platforms with a focus on reliability and fault tolerance, while driving performance improvements across the stack and adopting emerging technologies, including AI capabilities.