Senior Backend Engineer
Talentmate
United Arab Emirates
23rd September 2026
2609-2544-2355
Job Description
- Design ultra-scale distributed systems handling massive throughput
- Own architecture, performance and reliability in a lean environment
Our client is a technology-led financial services organisation building highly sophisticated platforms that operate at significant scale.
Job Description
- Architect and build large-scale distributed systems capable of supporting millions of users and tens of thousands of requests per second.
- Design event-driven architectures, partitioning strategies, and highly scalable data platforms with a focus on reliability and fault tolerance.
- Lead performance optimisation initiatives across application, infrastructure, storage, networking, and caching layers.
- Own systems end-to-end, from architecture and development through production operations and continuous improvement.
- Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies, including AI-driven capabilities, to solve complex engineering and business challenges.
- Extensive backend engineering experience building highly scalable, distributed systems in production environments.
- Proven experience operating services handling 20,000-30,000+ requests per second and large-scale user traffic.
- Deep expertise in system design, distributed architecture, concurrency, partitioning, consistency models, and performance engineering.
- Demonstrated success solving complex scaling, latency, reliability, and availability challenges in mission-critical platforms.
- Strong technical curiosity with the ability to rapidly learn new technologies, domains, and AI capabilities independently.
- Opportunity to solve genuinely complex engineering problems at significant scale within a highly technical environment.
- Competitive compensation package alongside strong career growth and exposure to cutting-edge platform engineering challenges.
Quote job ref: JN-012026-6928265
Job Details
| Role Level: | Not Applicable | Work Type: | Full-Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Country: | United Arab Emirates | City: | Dubai |
| Company Website: | https://redirect.michaelpage.com/mp-home | Job Function: | Software Development |
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