Senior Backend Engineer

A confidential private investment firm in Abu Dhabi is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to work on a highly concurrent, large-scale distributed backend system. This is a genuine backend engineering role centred on architecture, scale, and reliability, sitting deep in the systems layer rather than the application layer.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate large-scale distributed backend systems handling high volumes of concurrent traffic
• Own performance optimisation, scalability, and reliability across production systems
• Debug and troubleshoot complex issues in high-throughput production environments
• Work across networking, Linux, and core operating systems fundamentals as part of day to day engineering
• Work with technologies such as Kafka, Redis, and other distributed backend architectures

What You'll Bring

• Deep experience with distributed systems design, including consistency models, partitioning, replication, and fault tolerance
• Strong grasp of concurrency, multithreading, and asynchronous processing under real production load
• Experience with a core programming language such as Python, Java, Go, or C++
• Experience with message queues and event-driven architectures such as Kafka or equivalent
• Caching strategies and in-memory data stores such as Redis at scale
• Strong fundamentals in networking protocols, load balancing, and Linux internals
• Experience diagnosing and resolving latency, throughput, and reliability issues in live systems
• Comfortable using AI coding tools day to day

Compensation and Benefits

• Strong, fully tax-free compensation package
• Medical and life insurance extended to family
• Discretionary annual bonus