Job summary
Salla is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer in Jeddah to build and scale backend systems for Checkout, Payments, Promotions and Loyalty. The role focuses on designing resilient, observable services and working with product, design and data teams to support high-volume transactions.
Key responsibilities
- Design, build and operate scalable backend services for Checkout, Payments, Promotions and Loyalty.
- Develop clean, maintainable, high-performance production code with long-term ownership.
- Design and evolve RESTful APIs and integrations with payment gateways and third parties.
- Build reliable distributed systems for high traffic, failures and asynchronous workloads.
- Drive architectural decisions focusing on scalability, resilience and maintainability.
- Optimize performance across services, databases, caches, queues and background workers.
- Ensure production readiness via monitoring, logging, alerting and observability practices.
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute across the full software development lifecycle.
Requirements
- 6+ years professional software engineering experience building production backend systems.
- Strong experience building scalable backend services in PHP, Go, Java or C#.
- Preferred experience with PHP and Laravel.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals and fault tolerance.
- Experience designing and operating high-scale, highly available backend systems.
- Proven ability to write clean, maintainable and high-performance production code.
- Experience designing RESTful APIs and integrating with payment providers.
- Strong SQL skills with MySQL or PostgreSQL and automated testing experience.
Skills
PHPGoJavaC#LaravelMySQLPostgreSQLDockerKubernetesDistributed Systems
Source: Workable. Last checked as open: 14 Nov 2026. You apply directly with the employer.
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