Senior Software Engineer (Backend)
Baraka, United Arab Emirates
Job Description
About Us:
Baraka’s mission is to help millions of young people across the Middle East find financial empowerment. Our apps help young professionals in the GCC region trade stocks, buy index funds, discover financial news, and do much more. We’re here to educate and empower the Middle East’s next generation of investors.
We’re a world class team of ambitious young professionals. Baraka was part of Y Combinator’s Summer 2021 cohort. Shortly after, we raised Seed funding from a host of top tier VCs that have backed iconic companies like Facebook, Alibaba, Slack and many more. Our team includes pros who have worked at Barclays, Trade Republic, Microsoft, Accenture, and a number of other leading global companies.
But our real secret is hiring people who care about their colleagues and are excited to build something big. This culture helps fuel a high-trust workplace, which allows us to do fun things like offer work from home days and other flexible work arrangements. Our team is constantly looking to improve and works hard to build each other up. We win and lose together and we’re all seriously committed to your growth.
About the role:
We are looking for a Backend Engineer to join our core trading and growth squad within Baraka. We are looking for a product minded techie with strong java expertise who is excited about working in a fast paced environment building scalable systems and for our fast growing investment app. Alongside being a strong individual contributor, you are excited to mentor and guide other engineers within the squad.
Requirements
- You are required to work on complex technical projects with peers in an innovative and fast-paced environment
- Architecting amp; developing resilient systems from scratch. And taking proactive responsibility for the system you own.
- Design and build backend services that power our native mobile applications on iOS and Android.
- You will help us to refactor legacy systems and take them to micro-service architecture
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to facilitate a smooth development experience and make the best product out of it
- Manage, reboot, and monitor the database and application systems
- Fully own and independently drive backend engineering efforts
What we look for:
- BS or Masters in Computer Science or related technical field
- At least 6+ years of experience in building distributed amp; robust systems
- Working experience within trading, investment and crypto space is a plus
- Strong hands on development experience in Core Java using Spring Boot
- Experience in Node.js is a plus
- Knowledge or experience in distributed caching using Hazelcast or Redis
- Strong knowledge of building high availability systems
- Experience in designing, building and maintaining REST APIs for use in production
- Database management experience in PSQL or Cassandra
- Have experience in designing, deploying, and monitoring a highly scalable environment
- Strong verbal and written communication skills in English
Benefits
- Competitive Tax-Free Salary (Dubai) + ESOP's in one of the fastest growing MENA fintech's
- Full coverage health insurance
- 25 paid vacation days annually
- Get $100 USD credit with Baraka to get started in your investing journey (Dubai)