Senior Backend Engineer

About us:

Gulf Software is a 16-person software shop in Abu Dhabi. The founders still answer support tickets. Small accounting firms in Abu Dhabi use our engagement letter and e-signature tool, and most heard about us from a colleague.

The role:

Our team is growing and we are hiring a Senior Backend Engineer. Backend role focused on API design, data modelling and making slow things fast. Employment is through our payroll partner in India. Salary is paid monthly in Indian rupees. You will work Dubai business hours, Monday to Friday. You will need a stable internet connection and a backup power source (UPS or inverter).

What you'll do:

• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces

What you bring:

• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs
• 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

Benefits:

₹36,00,000 - ₹43,00,000 pa

• Flexible hours
• 20 days paid time off
• Annual salary review
• Annual learning budget

Due to the number of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Start: Within 30 days.

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