Staff Backend Engineer (Financial Ledger)

About the role

We are seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to own and evolve the core financial ledger system of a fast‑growing travel‑tech SaaS platform. Based in Saudi Arabia, you will work on a critical backend service that ensures accurate revenue recognition, payments, and profit calculations across a distributed environment.

Key responsibilities

• Take technical ownership of the Financial Core system and guide its evolution toward a scalable V2 architecture.
• Validate lifecycle flows, reconciliation logic, and financial correctness across distributed services.
• Design and maintain ledger‑style financial models, including revenue recognition, cost allocation, and multi‑party transaction flows.
• Enforce strict financial invariants within an event‑driven architecture to guarantee deterministic, auditable outcomes.
• Collaborate with finance and engineering leadership to translate business rules into robust implementations.
• Identify gaps in the current production architecture and drive improvements for reliability and scalability.
• Contribute hands‑on backend development while shaping long‑term architectural direction.

Required profile

• 8+ years of backend engineering experience, preferably with financial, billing, or transactional systems.
• Proven track record building or maintaining payment platforms, billing engines, ERP solutions, or subscription infrastructure.
• Deep expertise in ledger systems, reconciliation mechanisms, and deterministic financial correctness.
• Strong understanding of revenue recognition, liabilities, cost structures, and multi‑party money flows.
• Experience evolving complex production systems without disrupting existing functionality.

Required skills

• Python programming
• Relational data modeling with PostgreSQL (preferred)
• Event‑driven architecture concepts