Senior Product Engineer - Backend

Tamara is hiring a Senior Product Engineer - Backend. Level rates it ; you can apply on Tamara.

Level's read on this job

On Level's scale, this role is Little AI ●○○○: aI is not part of the work.
Level classifies it as a senior role.
Level lists 39 other open roles at Tamara.

AI in this role

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

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How we rate this

Senior Product Engineer - Backend at Tamara rates 35 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

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

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