Senior Backend Engineer – Checkout

🕒 July 16

🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Salla E-Commerce Platform

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51 - 200 employees

🛍️ eCommerce

☁️ SaaS

eCommerce • SaaS

Salla E-Commerce Platform is an innovative platform designed to simplify the process of starting and managing online businesses. It specializes in e-commerce solutions, enabling users to create and operate their online shops effortlessly. With a focus on providing accessible tools and services for e-commerce, Salla is shaping the future of online commerce in a user-friendly manner.

📋 Description

• Design, build, and operate scalable backend services supporting Fintech, Checkout, Promotions, Loyalty, and Payment systems • Develop clean, maintainable, and high-performance production code • Design and evolve RESTful APIs and integrations with internal platforms, payment gateways, and third-party services • Build reliable distributed systems capable of handling high traffic, failures, and asynchronous workloads • Drive architectural decisions focused on scalability, resilience, maintainability, and operational excellence • Optimize application performance across services, databases, caching layers, queues, and background workers • Participate in architecture discussions, technical design reviews, RFCs, and engineering planning • Ensure services are production-ready through monitoring, logging, alerting, testing, and observability practices • Write unit and integration tests and maintain engineering standards through code reviews • Use AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate development, debugging, testing, documentation, and code quality • Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through technical leadership and design discussions • Contribute across the full software development lifecycle from design through deployment and production support • Continuously improve system reliability, developer experience, and engineering standards

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience building production backend systems • Strong experience with at least one modern language such as PHP, Go, Java, or C# • Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals, including consistency, availability, concurrency, fault tolerance, idempotency, asynchronous processing, messaging, and caching • Experience designing and operating high-scale, highly available backend systems • Ability to write clean, maintainable, efficient, and high-performance production code • Understanding of SOLID, design patterns, clean architecture, and domain-driven design concepts • Experience designing RESTful APIs and integrating with third-party platforms and payment providers • Strong SQL knowledge and experience designing and optimizing MySQL or PostgreSQL databases • Experience with caching technologies, queues, background workers, and performance optimization • Experience writing automated tests, participating in code reviews, and working within modern CI/CD pipelines • Comfortable using AI-assisted development tools for productivity, software design, implementation, testing, debugging, documentation, and code reviews • Experience with PHP and Laravel is preferred but not required • Fintech, Payments, Checkout, Loyalty, Pricing, Promotions, or other high-volume transactional systems experience is preferred • Experience with event-driven architectures and distributed messaging systems is preferred • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure, and Infrastructure as Code is preferred • Experience with observability platforms, distributed tracing, metrics, and production monitoring is preferred • Experience with microservices or service-oriented architectures is preferred • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field is a plus