About UsTamara is the leading fintech platform in Saudi Arabia and the wider GCC region with a mission to help people make their dreams come true by building the most customer-centric financial super-app on earth. The company serves millions of users in KSA, UAE and Kuwait, and partners with leading global and regional brands such as SHEIN, Jarir, noon, Amazon, IKEA, eXtra and Farfetch as well as small and medium businesses.Tamara is Saudi Arabia’s first fintech unicorn and is backed by Sanabil Investments, a wholly owned company by the Public Investment Fund (PIF), SNB Capital, , amongst others. The company operates from its headquarters in Riyadh, with additional regional and global support offices.Your roleWe're seeking Backend Engineers for our team (different levels). As a Backend Engineer, you will be crucial in leading the way to build cutting-edge platforms that enable seamless and scalable transactions. Drawing on your proficiency in payment, shopping, and banking systems you will be responsible for designing, developing, and optimizing our secure and robust software infrastructure to create unique experiences only Tamara can provide.With a proven track record of managing cross-functional teams you will collaborate with a diverse ecosystem of talented engineers, designers, analysts, product experts, and other team members to leverage system design, create technical solutions, dive deep into complex problems and ultimately revolutionize the way millions of users shop, pay, and bank.You are a driven, determined, curious team player, knowing that collective strength means we all win. With a positive outlook, you are solution-oriented–persevering regardless of circumstances, always finding a way through, no matter the challenges. You will effectively find a way to work with everyone through empathy and respect. You will be driven and comfortable with responding quickly with urgency, with the ability to change course without losing momentum and energy, resulting in great success.Your responsibilitiesDesign, build and maintain APIs, services, and systems across Tamara’s engineering teams.Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stackWork with engineers across the company to build delightful features that span various parts of the systemCollaborate with our business, product, and operations teams to understand and solve our users’ pain points.Your expertiseYou have strong software development experience building scalable products and servicesGood understanding of SOLID principles, Design PatternsKnowledge of AWS, OCI, Kubernetes/DockerExperience with distributed systems with messaging tools like Kafka or RabbitMQExperience with Agile/ScrumKnowledge of Javascript, Vue.js, HTML and CSS - is a plusYou are proactive, goal-orientated, and self-structured in your approachYou have experience as a developer in a startup company - is a plusTeam player, creative thinker, and passionate about exploring new technologiesGood written and spoken communication skills in English
Job Title
Backend Engineer