Senior Backend Engineer

SAEQ; Jeddah; On-site; SAR 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

SAEQ in Jeddah is building an Uber for Trucks marketplace and seeks a literate software engineering team to advance the MVP. You will contribute to scalable services, APIs, and data infrastructure, while ensuring security, testing, and documentation are embedded in delivery.

The role targets engineers with 4+ years of experience, capable of tackling high-performance production services with robust monitoring and logging, within a fast-moving logistics platform.

Qualifications

• Git/CI/CD and project tracking tools experience.
• Experience with NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Firebase).
• Knowledge of network security (CORS, SSL/TLS).
• Strong algorithms and data structures knowledge.
• Experience building APIs (HTTP/WS).
• Bonus: GPS/GSM API integration, GraphQL, TDD/unit testing, Docker, modern network protocols, documentation.

Skills

Git/CI-CD

Algorithms & DS

API development

Network security

Security basics

Education

BSc in CS/Engineering

Tools

MongoDB

Firebase

Docker

GraphQL

React.js basics

Job description

Overview

We are building an Uber for Trucks marketplace platform. We promise our vetted drivers and ensure they find trips on their empty miles while digitizing the entire trucking network for customers, making their shipments easier to haul and providing transparency into availability and price. We are establishing a team of talented, thoughtful engineers to automate the logistics industry. Now we need a literate software engineering team to help us build the first MVP for our marketplace platform.

Requirements

Must have:

• git/CI/CD and project tracking tools
• no-SQL database experience, such as Mongo/Firebase
• network security (CORS, SSL/TLS, etc.)
• strong on algorithms & data structures
• experience building APIs (HTTP/ws)

Will be a bonus:

• GPS/GSM API (Google/Open Maps)
• GraphQL
• mastering TDD / unit testing
• docker/docker-compose
• modern network protocols
• basic knowledge of react js stack
• writing & maintaining technical documentation

Preferred qualifications

• At least Four years of software engineering experience
• Experience as a developer, writing code for highly scalable software systems
• Proven experience designing and deploying high performance, highly scalable production services with extensive monitoring and logging practices
• Ability to debug and troubleshoot production issues
• Experience with http/ws API development & building microservices
• Capacity to understand and evaluate tradeoffs between correctness, robustness, performance, space, and time.
• Experience building geospatial services and datasets, such as maps data, traffic patterns, etc.
• Strong verbal and written communication and organization skills.
• Strong problem-solving skills, analytical capabilities, data analysis, and attention to detail.
• Ability to collaborate across multiple levels of an organization

Required Minimum Educational Qualifications

• 4+ BSc degree in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant field