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Responsibilities
- Shape the technical direction and roadmap of Core Backend, including shared services, libraries, and developer tools.
- Design and evolve shared backend capabilities such as event-driven communication, application-level encryption, and sensitive-data protection.
- Develop internal tools including the Service Catalog, API Registry, SLO platform, and AI-assisted development tools.
- Lead complex initiatives from problem discovery and design through implementation, rollout, and production validation.
- Support teams with integrations and migrations, gather feedback, and improve shared systems.
- Write hands-on Go code, validate performance and failure scenarios, and build observability and recovery mechanisms.
- Raise engineering standards through architecture reviews, technical decisions, mentoring, and documentation.
Requirements
- 7+ years of backend engineering experience, including building and operating production systems at scale.
- Strong Go experience and a record of remaining hands-on in senior technical roles.
- Deep expertise in distributed, high-load systems; the stack includes PostgreSQL, Redis, Kubernetes, GCP, GitLab, and microservices.
- Proven ownership of complex initiatives from design through production, including lasting architecture and technology decisions.
- Strong understanding of quality, security, observability, and operational excellence.
- Experience integrating third-party APIs and contributing to product development.
- Ability to influence decisions across teams and explain technical topics to non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience mentoring engineers and raising the technical bar across a team or organization.
- Strong English skills and a proactive, autonomous approach to ambiguous problems.
Benefits
- Full-time B2B contract.
- Fully remote setup.
- Up to 20% tax allowance.
- 22 paid leave days annually.
- Stock options through an ESOP in a pre-IPO company.
- Flexible benefits for wellness, travel, or learning.
- Relocation support to hubs in Armenia, Georgia, Serbia, Portugal, and Spain, including flights, temporary accommodation, and legal setup.
- Opportunity to work with an international engineering team in a global fintech company.
Tech Stack
About Tabby
Tabby builds a consumer money app and buy-now-pay-later services used at checkout across the Gulf, plus merchant tools for payment acceptance and checkout conversion. The privately held company, founded in 2019 and headquartered in Riyadh, operates across Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait. Its products include installment payments, virtual cards and wallets for shoppers, along with merchant integrations, risk and credit decisioning, and settlement services.