Senior Backend Engineer – Michael Page International (UAE) Limited
Join a lean, high-calibre engineering team building distributed systems at significant scale. Design resilient backend services, drive architectural decisions, and solve complex performance challenges for a high-growth financial services platform
Client Details
Our client is a technology-led financial services organisation building highly sophisticated platforms that operate at significant scale.
Description
Architect and build large-scale distributed systems capable of supporting millions of users and tens of thousands of requests per second.Design event-driven architectures, partitioning strategies, and highly scalable data platforms with a focus on reliability and fault tolerance.Lead performance optimisation initiatives across application, infrastructure, storage, networking, and caching layers.Own systems end-to-end, from architecture and development through production operations and continuous improvement.Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies, including AI-driven capabilities, to solve complex engineering and business challenges.
Profile
Extensive backend engineering experience building highly scalable, distributed systems in production environments.Proven experience operating services handling 20,000-30,000+ requests per second and large-scale user traffic.Deep expertise in system design, distributed architecture, concurrency, partitioning, consistency models, and performance engineering.Demonstrated success solving complex scaling, latency, reliability, and availability challenges in mission-critical platforms.Strong technical curiosity with the ability to rapidly learn new technologies, domains, and AI capabilities independently.
Job Offer
Opportunity to solve genuinely complex engineering problems at significant scale within a highly technical environment.Competitive compensation package alongside strong career growth and exposure to cutting-edge platform engineering challenges.
Job Details
| Posted Date: | 2026-09-21 |
| Job Location: | United Arab Emirates |
| Job Role: | Information Technology |
Preferred Candidate
| Career Level: | Management |
