Senior Backend Engineer

MOYASAR; Saudi Arabia; On-site; SAR 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services provider in Saudi Arabia is looking for a backend developer to maintain and develop payment systems. The ideal candidate will have a background in Ruby on Rails or similar frameworks and possess strong skills in relational databases, RESTful APIs, and web technologies. Responsibilities include optimizing system performance, automating tests, and contributing to new feature designs. A collaborative environment welcomes developers passionate about technology and effective solutions.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Ruby on Rails or similar MVC frameworks.
• Good understanding of relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL.
• Familiarity with HTTP standard and RESTful API design patterns.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Moyasar's payment systems.
• Optimize and improve the system's performance.
• Automate testing from unit to integration tests.
• Contribute to the design of new features.
• Help document features for developers and users.

Skills

Ruby on Rails

System integration

Relational databases

RESTful API design

HTML, CSS, JavaScript

Linux

Education

BSc in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

PostgreSQL

Docker

Job description

Moyasar Financial Company is A Saudi company headquartered in Riyadh and licensed to provide payment aggregation services by the Saudi Central Bank (SAMA). Established in 2015 by passionate engineers who worked in different sectors, learned a lot from the market, and went on a journey to build an efficient and reliable payment solution for the online marketplace. Moyasar has proven success and reliability records since that time and helped a lot of merchants switch to providing their services online during the 2020 pandemic.

Moyasar is working with the market's most prominent acquirer banks and has an ever-expanding network of merchants from all business sectors and sizes.

In our mission to provide a secure, effective, and reliable payment infrastructure to everyone, we are looking for backend developers who love to work on mission‑critical systems, have good experience with systems integration yet strive to build simple interfaces for our clients, and write clear and easy to maintain code.

We are a Ruby on Rails shop but we welcome any experienced developers in other frameworks and languages who are willing to work with Ruby on Rails.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Moyasar's payment systems.
• Optimize and improve the system's performance.
• Automate testing from unit to integration tests.
• Contribute to the design of new features.
• Help document features for developers and users.

Essential Requirements

• BSc in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Hands‑on experience with Ruby on Rails or any other MVC frameworks like ASP.NET Core or Laravel.
• Good understanding of relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL.
• Good understanding of the HTTP standard and RESTful API design patterns.
• Experience with web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Comfortable setting up and working with Linux.

Nice‑To‑Have

• Docker and related technologies.