Lead Backend Engineer

noon • Node JS • SQL • TypeScript • JavaScript • 11 days ago
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noon is an e-commerce company headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and founded in 2017 by Mohamed Alabbar together with Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund. The company runs a regional online marketplace along with noon Minutes for quick commerce, noon Food for delivery, and the noon Pay payments service. It operates in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt, and is one of the main regional competitors to Amazon in the Middle East.
noon.com • HQ: Dubai, United Arab Emirates • Delivery • Transportation & Logistics • Online Groceries • Commerce • Marketplaces • E-commerce Platforms • 51-200 employees • Est. 2017

Requirements:

  • 8+ years building large-scale distributed systems, including 3+ years owning backend architecture for a sizable platform.
  • Deep expertise in backend languages and frameworks (Node.js/TypeScript or similar) for complex, high-performance systems.
  • Proven experience with complex processing pipelines (file parsing, transformation, code generation, or similar compute-intensive workflows).
  • Strong experience with distributed systems architecture (microservices, event-driven systems, message queues, and job orchestration).
  • Real-time collaboration systems: proven expertise building and scaling WebSocket servers, handling conflict resolution, and managing connection state at scale.
  • Track record of performance optimization in real-world conditions (high concurrency, large file processing, memory-efficient pipelines, batching strategies).
  • Strong ability to partner with frontend on API design and system tradeoffs; understanding of frontend constraints and use cases.

Demonstrated ownership of:

  • Backend architecture at scale (service decomposition, API versioning, backwards compatibility).
  • Database design and optimization (SQL/NoSQL, indexing, query optimization, migration strategies).
  • Infrastructure and DevOps (Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, cloud platforms: AWS/GCP/Azure).
  • Observability (APM, distributed tracing, logging, metrics, performance regression monitoring).

Nice-to-Have:

  • ML/AI integration experience (LLM APIs, embeddings, code generation models).
  • Experience with code AST manipulation or compiler/transpiler development.
  • Open-source contributions (backend frameworks, tooling, or infrastructure).
  • Frontend exposure: understanding of React, TypeScript, and modern frontend build systems.
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