Senior Backend Developer

Job Reference: YW59V5

Our client in Saudi Arabia is looking for 2 Senior Backend Developers to join their team.

Responsibilities:

• Be part of a small team, with a large amount of ownership and responsibility for managing things directly.
• Ship high-quality solutions with a sense of urgency and speed.
• Work closely with product managers, other teams, owning a large part of the process from problem understanding to shipping the solution.
• Have the freedom to suggest and drive organization-wide initiatives.
• Provide mentorship to junior developers on the team.
• Participate in weekly scrum meetings and daily stand-ups.
• Plan, develop, test, and deploy new applications and features (front end, middleware, and back-end).
• Support and maintain existing code/applications/libraries.- Collaborate on technical solutions with an internal multi-functional team as well as external clients.
• Document and share knowledge with other team members.

Requirements:

• Bachelor of Computer Science or equivalent.
• Excellent communication skills and fluency in English.
• Minimum 3+ years of professional industry experience.
• Motivation and enjoyment of a startup environment.
• Expert knowledge of programming concepts and object-oriented programming.
• Hands-on experience in web applications.
• Hands-on experience in Web Services in any Backend programming language (NodeJS, PHP, Java. Ruby, C#, C++ )
• Expertise with client-side JavaScript and HTML based UI development.
• Experience with MySQL relational databases and handling large datasets.
• Exposure to systems and/or network automation and monitoring (a plus).
• An ability to balance a sense of urgency with shipping high quality and pragmatic solutions.
• Extensive experience working with a large codebase and cross-functional teams.
• Ability to perform in a fast-paced team environment using agile methodologies.

Employment Type: Full-time