Senior Product Engineer - Backend

About Us

Tamara is a leading fintech platform in Saudi Arabia and the GCC region with a mission to help people own their dreams built on being simple, trusted, and everywhere our customers need us. Today, more than 25 million customers and over 130,000 partner merchants depend on Tamara every day for reliable financial solutions across retail, travel, education, healthcare, and beyond. Tamara is backed by Sanabil Investments, a wholly owned company of the Public Investment Fund (PIF), and SNB Capital, among others.

Your role

We're seeking Backend Engineers for our team. As a Backend Engineer, you will be crucial in leading the way to build cutting-edge platforms that enable seamless and scalable transactions.

Drawing on your proficiency in payment, shopping, and banking systems you will be responsible for designing, developing, and optimizing our secure and robust software infrastructure to create unique experiences only Tamara can provide.

With a proven track record of managing cross-functional teams you will collaborate with a diverse ecosystem of talented engineers, designers, analysts, product experts, and other team members to leverage system design, create technical solutions, dive deep into complex problems and ultimately revolutionize the way millions of users shop, pay, and bank.

You are a driven, determined, curious team player, knowing that collective strength means we all win. With a positive outlook, you are solution-oriented, persevering regardless of circumstances, always finding a way through, no matter the challenges.

You will effectively find a way to work with everyone through empathy and respect. You will be driven and comfortable with responding quickly with urgency, with the ability to change course without losing momentum and energy, resulting in great success.

Your responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain APIs, services, and systems across Tamara's engineering teams.
• Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
• Work with engineers across the company to build delightful features that span various parts of the system
• Collaborate with our business, product, and operations teams to understand and solve our users' pain points.

Your expertise

• You have 6+ years of software development experience
• Experience in Java or GoLang
• You have strong software development experience building scalable products and services
• Good understanding of SOLID principles, Design Patterns
• Knowledge of AWS, OCI, Kubernetes/Docker
• Experience with distributed systems with messaging tools like Kafka or RabbitMQ
• Experience with Agile/Scrum
• Knowledge of Javascript, Vue.js, HTML and CSS - is a plus
• You are proactive, goal-orientated, and self-structured in your approach
• You have experience as a developer in a startup company - is a plus
• Team player, creative thinker, and passionate about exploring new technologies
• Good written and spoken communication skills in English