Senior Backend Engineer

About the role

Almosafer, Saudi Arabia's leading travel company, is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to build new experiences, improve existing products and develop distributed systems powering the Middle East's largest travel e-commerce websites. The role is dynamic, collaborative and curious.

Key responsibilities

• Design technical and integration architectures, including development, runtime and operations architectures.
• Define scalable solutions using SOA patterns, microservices and cloud-based services, and design message and event-driven architectures.
• Lead implementation of large, complex solutions from project requirements to go-live.
• Provide technical design across multiple projects and clients, and technology consulting on architectural strategy, reviews and roadmaps.
• Manage risks, issues and dependencies of the scoped solution, and own roadmaps for integration technologies.
• Introduce Agile processes to the existing team.

Required profile

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject.
• 4+ years of intensive Java backend development and solution architecture.
• Strong hands-on experience in platform delivery and architecture design.
• Full understanding of cloud services, AWS and DevOps tools and CI/CD.
• Experience with the full Agile software development lifecycle, scaled to enterprise and release management.
• Thought leadership in legacy platform migration, RESTful APIs, API gateways, microservices and cloud deployment (AWS mainly).
• Ability to influence and guide senior stakeholders on technical solutions.
• Excellent documentation, presentation and communication skills.

Required skills

• Java 8 or Java 11, Spring Boot, API security, Redis, RabbitMQ, Kafka, SQL and NoSQL databases, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS.
• Node.js knowledge is a plus.

What we offer

• A purpose-led workplace where ideas create real impact.
• Ongoing learning and development.
• Recognition for achievements, big and small.
• A community built on trust, curiosity and shared momentum.