Tamara
FinTech
SeniorProductEngineer-Backend
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“Senior Product Engineer - Backend at Tamara. Skills: Backend Engineering, API design, Service development. Design APIs, services, and systems. Build APIs, services, and systems”
Industry & Context.
Dive deep into complex problems
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
6+ years software development, Software development experience building scalable products and services, SOLID principles, Design Patterns, AWS, OCI, Kubernetes/Docker, Distributed systems with messaging tools, Agile/Scrum
Nice to Have
Javascript, Vue.js, HTML and CSS, Developer in a startup company
What You'll Do.
Debug production issues across services
Debug production issues across multiple levels of the
Build delightful features
Understand users’ pain points
Solve users’ pain points
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Cross-functional teams; Engineering teams; Business teams; Product teams; Operations teams
Communication Scope
Written communication; Spoken communication
Process & Methodology
Agile, Scrum
Full Job Description
About Us Tamara is the leading fintech platform in Saudi Arabia and the wider GCC region with a mission to help people make their dreams come true by building the most customer-centric financial super-app on earth. The company serves millions of users in the region and partners with leading global and regional brands such as SHEIN, Jarir, noon, IKEA and Amazon, as well as small and medium businesses. Tamara is Saudi Arabia’s first fintech unicorn and is backed by Sanabil Investments, a wholly owned company by the Public Investment Fund (PIF), SNB Capital, Checkout.com, amongst others. The company operates from its headquarters in Riyadh, with additional regional and global support offices. 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 res
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