Backend Developer

Customers use our platform to manage equipment rentals: reservations, check-out, damage photos, invoicing and QuickBooks sync. Built in Aurora, our document management tool is used by county clerks, title companies and small law offices. On-call rotates weekly and pays a flat stipend whether or not the pager goes off.

The previous person in this role moved to another team. You'll work mostly on server-side code: services, queues, databases and the glue between them. Little to no frontend work. We hire in the UAE through an employer of record, so this is a regular full-time job with local payroll and statutory benefits. Core hours overlap with US Central time, 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM CT. Day-to-day communication is in Slack and Google Meet.

What you'll do

• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans.
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS.
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces.
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers.
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python.
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning.
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks.
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources.

What you'll need

• 3+ years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills.
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms.
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js.
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production.
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines.

Compensation and benefits

AED 29,000 - AED 37,000/month

• Home office setup budget.
• Paid sick days.
• Annual learning budget.
• Wellness allowance.
• Flexible hours.

Candidates must be eligible to work in United Arab Emirates.

We look at every application, usually within a week.

Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at King Software.