Staff Backend Engineer

Delivery Hero SE; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading local delivery platform in Riyadh is seeking a highly skilled Staff Software Engineer - Backend. In this critical role, you will lead complex engineering initiatives and mentor team members. The ideal candidate will possess extensive experience in programming languages and observability tools while showcasing strong leadership abilities. You will enjoy working on challenging technical problems and have significant input in architectural decisions. This company offers great relocation support and global collaboration opportunities.

Benefits

Visa & relocation support

Educational budget for conferences

E-learning platform access

In-house training opportunities

Qualifications

• More than 8 years experience in several programming languages.
• Strong experience with common observability tools.
• Expert in selecting from best practice Design Patterns.

Responsibilities

• Own technical agenda and drive complex technical initiatives.
• Be a go-to person for engineering community.
• Lead engineers by example and mentor others.

Skills

GoLang

RoR

Java

Python

NodeJs

PHP

Docker

Kubernetes

GCP

AWS

Tools

Grafana

Datadog

New Relic

Postgresql

MySQL

NoSQL

Job description

Overview

HungerStation is part of the Delivery Hero Group, the world’s pioneering local delivery platform, our mission is to deliver an amazing experience—fast, easy, and to your door. We operate in over 70+ countries worldwide. Headquartered in Berlin, Germany. Delivery Hero has been listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since 2017 and is part of the MDAX stock market index.

Job Description

We are looking for a highly talented Staff Software Engineer - Backend to join our team in Riyadh. If you are looking for a place where you can both show hands-on experience creating direct impact, and drive engineering excellence enhancements, then this may be the place for you! An ideal candidate will have a track record as a significant individual contributor as well as a strong team player being able to drive complex tech initiatives end-to-end across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Own technical agenda and drive complex technical initiatives within your domain


• Being a go-to person for your engineering community with your deep tech expertise


• Setting standards of engineering excellence and lead engineers by own example


• Coaching and mentoring other engineers as a senior member of our Backend chapter


• Play a major role in architectural decision making on a platform that is used by millions of people.


• Playing an active role in designing, improving and most importantly securing the overall backend architecture to support massive growth in users and products without compromise.


• Support teams in infrastructure management in a cloud environment.


• We embrace Design Driven Development, SOLID Principles, Event-driven Architecture, Algorithms and automated tests (unit, integration and functional).


• Understanding development lifecycle and collaborating with cross-functional and agile teams.


• Participate in the continuous and common effort of test coverage, refactoring and documentation.


• Showing off your code review, debugging and investigation skills on a regular basis

Qualifications

• More than 8 years experience in several programming languages like GoLang, RoR, Java or Python, NodeJs, PHP


• Tech evangelist : Be present on a local technical scene (meetups, LinkedIn, stackoverflow, etc…)


• More than 8 years experience in several programming languages like GoLang, RoR, Java or Python, NodeJs, .NET Core


• Strong experience with common observability tools such as Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, etc.


• You’ve played a major role building complex, high-quality applications, and have a strong knowledge of Domain Driven Design and microservice architecture.


• You’re expert in selecting from best practice Design Patterns and Design Principles when building your Software Architectures and Algorithms


• Strong knowledge of several databases and their tradeoffs, like Postgresql, MySQL and NoSQL


• Flexible and open-minded personality and comfortable working with multiple teams.


• Strong experience working with the following; Docker & Kubernetes, GCP, AWS, terraform

Additional Information

Why this is an amazing opportunity for you:

• You will have a high impact on multiple teams within your domain and beyond.


• You will have a lot of complex technical challenges to solve and prove your both hands-on and leadership skills.


• You will have an opportunity to elevate engineering excellence with your valuable experience and deep understanding of engineering.


• You will have a direct impact within the market leader company.


• You will have an opportunity to collaborate with brightest engineering minds at HungerStation as well as all around the world being a part of a bigger DeliveryHero group.

We offer

• We offer visa & relocation support globally to our permanent employees.


• Exchange ideas and meet 2000+ colleagues from different teams within Delivery Hero in our active guilds and through our global tech & product community.


• Develop your skills with your personal educational budget for conferences and external training.


• Access our e-learning platform MyAcademy and participate in our various inhouse training, including German learning options.


• And much more…