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Senior Staff Software Engineer
Job summary
A leading tech company in the United Arab Emirates is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to shape and scale their backend platform. In this role, you will lead architectural decisions, implement cloud-native systems, and mentor a team of engineers. The ideal candidate has over 7 years of experience in backend engineering, with deep expertise in Node.js, TypeScript, and AWS services. This position offers a chance to drive technical excellence and work on secure, scalable solutions.
Qualifications
- 7+ years of backend engineering experience, with 5+ years in Node.js & TypeScript.
- Deep expertise in AWS services like Lambda, Cognito, S3, and DynamoDB.
- Strong background in API design and distributed systems.
Responsibilities
- Define and implement backend architecture and technical strategy.
- Own feature delivery end-to-end, ensuring performance and scalability.
- Champion engineering best practices like TDD and CI/CD.
Skills
As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you will shape and scale our backend platform, driving technical excellence while remaining hands‑on. You’ll lead architecture, mentor engineers, and collaborate across teams to deliver cloud‑native systems that are secure, scalable, and reliable.
- Define and implement backend architecture and technical strategy.
- Own feature delivery end‑to‑end, ensuring performance and scalability.
- Champion engineering best practices (TDD, CI/CD, clean architecture).
- Conduct code reviews and mentor engineers to raise technical standards.
- Improve workflows, monitoring, and incident management.
- Partner with Product and stakeholders to align technical and business goals.
- 7+ years of backend engineering experience, 5+ with Node.js & TypeScript in production.
- Deep expertise in AWS services (Lambda, Cognito, S3, DynamoDB, SQS/SNS).
- Proven track record with serverless, microservices, event‑driven systems.
- Strong background in API design, distributed systems, debugging.
- Leadership experience in architecture decisions and team mentorship.
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