Senior Backend Engineer for AI-Powered Home Marketplace

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

Job summary

Eazli in Jeddah seeks an experienced Backend Engineer to design reliable APIs, manage data models, and scale backend services for a multi-language AI-powered marketplace. You’ll work with asynchronous Python, PostgreSQL, and Kubernetes in AWS.

The role emphasizes solving ambiguous problems, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and building robust backend systems that power vendors, products, orders, and payments across a growing Middle East platform.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on Python backend experience, preferably with FastAPI or async frameworks.
• Strong PostgreSQL, relational modelling, indexing, and migrations knowledge.
• Hands-on with Redis, Kafka, Docker, AWS, and Kubernetes across production systems.
• Solid testing habits using pytest, mocks, fixtures, and CI checks, plus observability tooling.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and improve backend APIs using FastAPI, Python, Pydantic, and async patterns.
• Design and evolve data models in PostgreSQL with SQLAlchemy and Alembic migrations.
• Develop services supporting marketplace workflows: vendors, products, orders, bookings, payments, KYC, shipping, notifications, and admin ops.
• Maintain the backend layer coordinating frontend with AI/agent services.
• Collaborate with frontend, product, DevOps, and AI engineers to ship reliable features end-to-end.
• Contribute to CI/CD, Docker-based development, automated testing, and deployment workflows.

Skills

FastAPI

Python

Async programming

Pydantic

PostgreSQL

SQLAlchemy

Alembic

Redis

Kafka

Docker

AWS

Kubernetes

Sentry

Grafana

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

pytest

REST

gRPC

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

Eazli in Jeddah seeks an experienced Backend Engineer to design reliable APIs, manage data models, and scale backend services for a multi-language AI-powered marketplace. You’ll work with asynchronous Python, PostgreSQL, and Kubernetes in AWS.

The role emphasizes solving ambiguous problems, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and building robust backend systems that power vendors, products, orders, and payments across a growing Middle East platform.