Senior Software Development Engineer 3 (Ordering Applications Squad)

NADIA Recruitment & Management Consultants; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 480,000 - 720,000; Full time

Job summary

NADIA Recruitment & Management Consultants is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer 3 for a client in Abu Dhabi. The role focuses on designing, building, and operating backend microservices at scale, with strong emphasis on cloud platforms and container orchestration.

You will drive architectural decisions, ADRs, and large-scale migrations, while improving observability, IaC practices, and CI/CD pipelines across multi-region deployments.

Qualifications

• Experience leading ADRs and architectural decision records across cross-team systems.
• Track record of large-scale migrations and platform re-architecture initiatives.
• Hands-on observability at scale: metrics, distributed tracing, SLO/SLI, and incident management.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi) and platform engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Design and own backend microservices architecture and APIs.
• Lead architecture decisions and ADRs for cross-team systems.
• Drive migrations and platform redesigns at scale across regions.
• Improve observability with metrics, tracing, and incident management.

Skills

Technical leadership

Cross-team collaboration

System design

Observability at scale

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Pulumi

Kafka

SQS/SNS

Pub/Sub

Redis

Job description

Job Summary

One of our clients in Abu Dhabi is looking for Senior Software Development Engineer 3

Key Responsibilities

• Strong proficiency in at least one backend language: Python, Java, or Node.js, with deep understanding of language internals and performance characteristics
• Proven track record of designing, building, and operating microservices architectures at scale in production
• Design the software and systems in your area of ownership, ensuring they meet their design objectives and align with longer-term business needs
• Handle complex software modules that are logically dense — whether from business, idempotence, robustness, or scalability requirements
• Simplify code and infrastructure, prioritizing tasks that measurably reduce maintenance and migration costs
• Preemptively identify and resolve technical risks before they jeopardize projects; resolve cross-team dependencies earlyDebug and reproduce non-deterministic bugs and system issues that would normally escape less experienced engineers
• Deep experience with cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure) including architecture decisions, cost optimization, and multi-region deployments
• Expert-level knowledge of containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes) in production environments
• Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies (blue-green, canary), and automated quality gates
• Advanced database skills: query optimization, sharding strategies, replication, and data modeling for high-throughput systems
• Extensive experience with event-driven architectures and message brokers (Kafka, SQS/SNS, Pub/Sub) at scale
• Deep understanding of caching layers (Redis, Memcached, CDN) and their role in system performance and reliability

Requirements

• Experience leading technical design reviews and architectural decision records (ADRs) for cross-team systems
• Track record of driving large-scale migrations, platform re-architecture, or system decomposition projects
• Hands-on experience with observability at scale: custom metrics, distributed tracing, SLO/SLI frameworks, and incident management
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi) and platform engineering practices