Senior/Lead Software Engineer - Backend

Intelmatix

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Posted on 31 Mar

Experience

5 - 7 Years

Job Location

Riyadh - Saudi Arabia

Education

Bachelor of Science(Computers)

Nationality

Any Nationality

Gender

Not Mentioned

Vacancy

1 Vacancy

Job Description

Roles & Responsibilities

Backend System Development

  • Design, develop, and maintain modular backend components
  • Build both synchronous and event-driven services
  • Implement core infrastructure: dynamic configuration, service discovery, and system orchestration
  • Build asynchronous processing pipelines, background jobs, and event-driven workflowsbr

API Development & Management

  • Design and maintain highly-available API endpoints (RESTful, GraphQL, gRPC)
  • Ensure API reliability, versioning, and documentation standards across services
  • Implement rate limiting, caching strategies, and API gateway patternsbr

Database & Data Architecture

  • Design and implement database schemas and data models (relational, document, or hybrid)
  • Optimize queries, manage migrations, and ensure data integrity across services
  • Work with data engineers on ingestion, transformation, and serving layersbr

Infrastructure & Deployment

  • Work with containerized deployments (Docker, ECS, EKS) and AWS cloud infrastructure
  • Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting for backend servicesbr

Collaboration, Code Quality & Security

  • Work closely with frontend, data, platform, and DevOps teams to deliver integrated solutions
  • Contribute to architectural discussions and technical decision-making
  • Mentor mid-level and junior engineers on backend engineering best practices
  • Write high-quality, well-tested production code with comprehensive unit and integration tests
  • Enforce security best practices: authentication, authorization, encryption, input validation
  • Conduct and participate in code reviews to maintain code quality

Desired Candidate Profile

Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

Experience: Minimum of 5 years in software engineering, with strong backend development expertise and a track record of building production systems.

Technical Skills:

  • Strong proficiency in Java/Kotlin with hands-on experience in Spring Boot and the Spring ecosystem (Spring MVC, Spring Data, Spring Security, Spring Cloud)
  • Solid understanding of system design: microservices, event-driven architecture, API design patterns, and data modeling
  • Strong API development experience (RESTful, GraphQL, gRPC) including designing and maintaining highly-available endpoints
  • Hands-on experience with AWS ECS, Lambda, SQS/SNS, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, API Gateway
  • Experience with relational and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Redis, AWS Aurora)
  • Practical experience with Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), and container-based deployments
  • Familiarity with modern authentication schemes such as OAuth, JWTs, or cookies
  • Strong testing practices: unit tests, integration tests, and familiarity with testing frameworks
  • Strong understanding of database schema design, query optimization, and data modeling
  • Excellent communication and leadership skills, adaptable, self-motivated, and capable of thriving in a fast-paced, unstructured startup environment
  • Strong ownership mentality you ship it, you run it, you own it

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