Graduate Backend Developer

Our lending business funds equipment, vehicles and working capital for small and mid-sized companies across the UAE. We started in 1996 and have grown to about 4,900 people.

Role overview:

Falcon Advisors has an opening for a Graduate Backend Developer. We want someone who writes boring, reliable code and leaves good logs behind. Our headquarters is in Dubai, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. We hire in Brazil through an employer of record, so this is a regular full-time job with local payroll and statutory benefits. Working hours follow Gulf time, Monday to Friday.

Day to day:

• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces

What you need:

• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services
• Clear written communication, including design docs
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production

Preferred:

• NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB
• Background with high-volume payment or ledger systems
• Kubernetes, including Helm charts
• Prior work breaking up a monolith

Compensation: R$14,500 to R$19,000 per month

Benefits:

• Co-working space stipend
• Public holidays observed per your country
• 20 days paid time off
• Paid parental leave
• Performance bonus

The posting will close once we have a strong shortlist.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Falcon Advisors LLC.