Senior Backend Engineer

We are looking for a highly talented Senior Backend Engineer to join our team in Riyadh. If you are looking for a place where you can gain hands-on experience and create a direct impact, then this may be the place for you! The ideal candidate will have a track record as a significant individual contributor as well as a strong team player, supporting a team, and working closely with the management teams to drive strategic initiatives forward across the region.

You will be working on: 

• Take part in architectural decision-making on a platform that is used by millions of people.

• Actively participate in migrating our monolithic application into Microservices.

• Playing an active role in designing, improving and most importantly securing the overall backend architecture to support massive growth in users and products without compromise.

• Deal with Docker containers, Kubernetes manifests, all this on Google Cloud Platform.

• Coaching and mentoring other team members as a senior member of the team and member of our Backend Chapter

• We embrace Design Driven Development, SOLID Principles, Event-driven Architecture, Algorithms and automated tests (unit, integration and functional).

• Understanding development lifecycle and collaborating with cross-functional and agile teams.

• Participate in the continuous and common effort of test coverage, refactoring and documentation.

• Showing off your code review, debugging and investigation skills on a regular basis.

• More than 5 years of experience in one of these programming languages like GoLang, RoR, Java, or Python.

• Strong experience with common monitoring/alerting/logging tools such as Prometheus, New Relic, Datadog, ELK stack, and distributed tracing.

• You’ve built complex, high-quality applications, and have a strong knowledge of Domain Driven Design and microservice architecture.

• You’re proficient in selecting from best practice Design Patterns and Design Principles when building your Software Architectures and Algorithms

• Good knowledge of databases (PostgreSQL and NOSQL). (You should be aware of normal forms, ACID, isolation levels, and index anatomy).

• Flexible and open-minded personality and comfortable working in a multicultural environment and in English.

• Familiar with the following; Docker & Kubernetes, GCP, AWS, terraform, and caching.

• Experienced using TDD approach during development.

Hungerstation is the first Saudi Food delivery App in the region! Established in 2012. Today Hungerstation enables you to browse the largest selection of restaurants and supermarkets in KSA that reach 35,000+ options.
In Hungerstation, we stand for our customers' satisfaction, partners’ loyalty and riders’ wellbeing, in addition to our expansion vision - always aiming higher and moving forward to the utmost levels of service platform.

Hungerstation is part of the Delivery Hero Group, the world’s leading local delivery platform operating in 70+ countries worldwide

• We offer visa and relocation support globally to our permanent employees.
• Exchange ideas and meet 2000+ colleagues from different teams within Delivery Hero in our active guilds and through our global tech and product community.
• Develop your skills with your personal educational budget for conferences and external training.
• Access our e-learning platform LinkedIn and participate in our various in-house training programs
• And much more…