Backend Engineer (Core Backend Team)
Department: Tech Platform
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Remote
Description
Tabby creates financial freedom in the way people shop, earn and save by reshaping their relationship with money. Over 5,000,000 active users choose Tabby to stay in control of their spending and make the most out of their money.Over 30,000 global brands and small businesses, including H&M, Adidas, IKEA, SHEIN, noon, and Bloomingdale’s, use Tabby’s technology to accelerate growth and gain loyal customers by offering flexible payments online and in stores. Tabby is active in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt and Kuwait and backed by leading investors, including Sequoia Capital India, STV, PayPal Ventures, Mubadala Investment Capital, Arbor Ventures and others.
Core Backend’s goal is to build a backend platform that enables Tabby engineers to focus more on creating valuable features for Tabby’s customers and partners and less on backend technologies.
The mission is to improve engineers’ experience, standardizing our tools and libraries.
You will build the backend systems and tools that power our applications, allows scaling them, and continuously improve our engineering practices.
Key Responsibilities
What You'll Get To Do
- Design, develop, and document tools, libraries and services.
- Collaborate with other engineers and architects to identify and solve their problems by improving internal tooling and sets of common components involved into building backend applications.
- Take operational responsibility for the services and tools that are built by your team. This includes taking part in an on-call rotation.
- Work with large scale, highly available and resilient systems.
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
To succeed in this role, we think you should have
- Strong coding ability in Go;
- 3+ years as a (Senior) Go Developer;
- Deep knowledge of building backend apps (from design to deployment);
- Knowledge and a passion for writing clean and testable code;
- Design API which main users are other engineers;
- You understand the basics of deploying applications to Kubernetes;
- You understand the basics of CI/CD;
- You can break down complex technical problems into small, achievable tasks and iterating quickly.
- You prefer a pragmatic approach to perfection;
- Working proficiency in English;
- And, of course, you should be proactive, enthusiastic, and independent.
Some of the technologies you'll get to work with
- Golang;
- PostgreSQL;
- Redis;
- Kubernetes;
- Google Cloud Platform;
- Gitlab.
What you can expect
- We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, at times that suit you and your team.
- A working environment that gives you autonomy and responsibility from day one.
- You should be comfortable with the idea that the quality of your work will influence the shape of your career.
- Participation in company’s employee stock options program.
- Health Insurance
We are passionate about creating an inclusive, high-performing workplace that gives people from all backgrounds the support they need to thrive, grow and meet their goals (whatever they may be).
If this sounds exciting to you, we’d love to hear from you!