Backend Engineer

Annual releases gave way to two-week sprints years ago, and the platform now handles over 200 million API calls a day. We run one of the larger SaaS platforms for commercial insurance carriers, processing millions of policy transactions a year. On-call rotates weekly and pays a flat stipend whether or not the pager goes off.

The position

Plowshare Software is hiring a Backend Engineer for our Abu Dhabi location. Backend role focused on API design, data modelling and making slow things fast. On site, Abu Dhabi.

Key responsibilities

• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ

Qualifications

• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js

Compensation: AED 29,000 to AED 38,000/month

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• 30 days annual leave
• Housing allowance
• End of service gratuity
• Education allowance for children
• Annual bonus
• Transport allowance

Candidates must be eligible to work in United Arab Emirates.

Start: Immediately.

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