Graduate Backend Developer (Java)

Who we are:

Most of our traffic is mobile, so the iOS and Android apps get as much attention as the website. Two million people a month visit our recipe and meal planning site, which earns money from ads and a paid membership.

The role:

Pharaoh Digital is hiring a Graduate Backend Developer (Java) to work remotely from Egypt. The Core API team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. Remote within Egypt. The team meets in Cairo once a quarter, travel covered. Weekday working hours, with room to shift your day when needed. Good written English matters here, since most updates are written.

In your first few months you will:

• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning

About you:

• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms

Preferred:

• NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB
• Terraform or Pulumi
• Background with high-volume payment or ledger systems

What we offer:

Pay: EGP 18,000 - EGP 23,500 monthly

• Medical cover
• Pension contribution
• Annual leave
• 13th month salary
• Data and airtime allowance
• Stock options

Candidates must be eligible to work in Egypt.

Start: Immediately.

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