Senior Python Backend Engineer – Real-Time SaaS Systems

Tanqeeb; Dubai; Hybrid; AED 240,000 - 360,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary annual bonus

Comprehensive medical insurance

Annual flight allowance

Visa sponsorship

Annual leave

Learning and conference budget

Company-paid AI coding assistant

Job summary

Tanqeeb, a product R&D company building solutions for the dynamic iGaming ecosystem, is seeking a backend engineer. You will design and operate production Python services, APIs, batch and streaming pipelines, and contribute to robust, scalable systems.

You will work with a small team of engineers in Dubai and Europe, own your work end-to-end, and participate in on-call rotations. The role offers hybrid/remote options, strong engineering culture, and opportunities to work on cutting-edge data and

Qualifications

• 3+ years of backend engineering experience.
• Strong Python: async, data processing, and working with Redis, Kafka and database clients.
• Deep database skills — non-trivial SQL, query plans, index design, transactions and isolation levels, and concurrency.
• Experience across relational and non-relational stores, and when to choose which.
• Good working knowledge of Docker and CI/CD, enough to partner well with DevOps.
• Experience owning a service in production.

Responsibilities

• Design and build production Python services: APIs, stream consumers, pipelines, feature stores, scheduled jobs, background workers
• Write and tune the SQL and schemas these services depend on
• Uphold engineering standards: code quality, testing, observability, deployment discipline
• Productionize data scientists' experimentation into reliable services
• Diagnose and fix problems in production
• Contribute to design discussions and the implementation approach for the systems you work on
• Review code and help raise the bar for what the team ships
• Take part in the team's on-call rotation for the systems you build and operate

Skills

Backend engineering

Python

Redis

Kafka

SQL

Databases

Docker

CI/CD

Production ownership

Tools

Kubernetes

Databricks

PySpark

Neo4j

PostgreSQL

Job description

Tanqeeb, a product R&D company building solutions for the dynamic iGaming ecosystem, is seeking a backend engineer. You will design and operate production Python services, APIs, batch and streaming pipelines, and contribute to robust, scalable systems.

You will work with a small team of engineers in Dubai and Europe, own your work end-to-end, and participate in on-call rotations. The role offers hybrid/remote options, strong engineering culture, and opportunities to work on cutting-edge data and