Lead Backend Engineer - PayLink

Salla is hiring a Lead Backend Engineer - PayLink. Level rates it ; you can apply on Salla.

Level's read on this job

Uses AI ●●○○ is how Level rates this software engineer role: an ordinary role that requires AI tools.
The posting mentions Claude and Claude Code among its tools and skills.
Level classes it as a lead role.
Salla has 26 other open roles on Level.

AI in this role

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We're looking for a hands-on engineering lead who sets technical direction, owns code quality, and builds payment-critical backend services on a modern Java stack, while guiding and growing a team of backend engineers.

Responsibilities

Provide hands-on technical leadership for backend engineering on a modern Java / Spring Boot stack.
Design and build payment-critical backend services and APIs.
Own code quality: standards, code review, testing and release readiness.
Ensure correctness, reliability and security across the services the team owns.
Mentor and grow backend engineers, and work closely with architecture and product.

Requirements

8+ years in Java backend with strong Spring Boot.
Proven technical leadership while remaining hands-on in the code.
Hands-on payments / fintech experience is required — you have worked on real payment or financial-transaction systems.
Hands-on experience with at least one payment processor or gateway (e.g. MPGS, Cybersource or mada). This is a requirement for this role.
Strong microservices, REST API design, relational databases and automated testing.
Delivery on containers (Kubernetes) with CI/CD.
AI-augmented engineering — you actively use AI coding tools such as Claude Code in your day-to-day development. This is a requirement for this role.

Nice to have

Experience with more than one payment processor / gateway.
Cloud platforms (OCI, AWS or Azure); event-driven systems (Kafka).

How we rate this

Lead Backend Engineer - PayLink at Salla rates 44 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Uses AI (AI Level 2 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Uses AI. An ordinary role that requires AI tools.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

Key facts

Lead Backend Engineer - PayLink is an open job at Salla.
Level rates this role AI Level 2 of 4: Uses AI.
The role is based in Makkah, Makkah Province, Saudi Arabia.
The job was posted on September 28, 2026.
Seniority: lead.
Applications are handled by Salla. Apply on Salla

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

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Pay

Typical software engineer job: $167k

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Walk me through how you've used Claude Code in your day-to-day work.
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Tell me about a time an AI tool got something wrong. How did you catch it?

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