Senior Software Engineer - Backend
This is the employer's own posting, not a copy on a job board.
What we know
Is it still open?
Confirmed still open
Last checked 2d ago — checked against the employer's own applicant tracking system, which is the company answering directly.
We re-read the employer's own applicant tracking system and the posting was still there. That is the company answering directly.
How old is it?
Posted 75d ago
The date the source published, not the day we noticed it (2026-08-18). Last seen at its source 2h ago.
We have tracked this listing since 23 Oct 2026 (9 days). The employer's own board has carried it every time we have read it, most recently 2 hours ago.
Is it remote?
Marked remote on the employer's board
Their board carries a remote setting on this posting — a field they filled in, not wording we read. The location field names somewhere specific, which is usually where the team or the entity sits.
Who may apply?
United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Iraq, Turkey, Jordan
The description states no restriction of its own. This is the source's own tag.
Pay not stated
Similar roles pay €93.4k–125.5k/yr
Middle 50% of 115 listings that do state pay — Engineering · Senior · EMEA · EUR/year. This employer has published no salary; this is what comparable listings we hold disclose, never converted between currencies or periods. How this is calculated.
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Workable employer's own board first seen 9d ago · last seen 2h ago
The listing
Your mission is to be the engineer your team looks to for direction. You will solve the complex problems in your team's domain independently, and you will raise the bar for everyone around you, in the code that ships, the tests that guard it, and the standards the team holds itself to. DZ moves fast on a surface where mistakes cost real money: instant digital-goods fulfilment, live payments, chargeback exposure. This role is about owning your team's domain deeply enough that speed and correctness stop being a trade-off.
What you'll do
- Own significant features and services end to end in your team's domain, architecting them with well-accepted patterns for iterative, autonomous development and future scale, applying bounded contexts and minimising cross-service dependencies so failures stay contained.
- Consistently ship production-ready, self-documenting code, and set the team's standard for AI-assisted development: treat generated code like a peer PR, catch the subtly and confidently wrong output, and know when writing it by hand is faster and safer.
- Apply TDD and mocks where they earn their place, refactor towards testability, and never merge untested code — including adding the failure cases that AI-generated happy-path tests omit.
- Diagnose issues systematically within your services and across service boundaries, tune the team's monitoring, and use operational and business metrics as the basis for stability and performance work. You'll be an active participant in your team's on-call.
- Look actively for vulnerabilities in your own code and in peer reviews, applying secure defaults for auth, input validation and data handling, and design features with abuse in mind (rate limits, velocity checks, idempotency), flagging fraud and risk trade-offs early rather than after launch.
- Anticipate and communicate blockers, delays and cost overruns before they need escalating, work dependencies to resolution without waiting on other teams, and drive continuous improvement of the team's practices.
- Mentor teammates deliberately, including to build redundancy so you are not the only person who can support a critical part of the domain and maintain the runbooks and ADRs that make the team's context legible to both people and tooling.
Requirements
What you'll bring
- 5–8 years building production software, with deep ownership of services in a live, revenue-carrying system.
- Strong depth in at least one of DZ's stacks (TypeScript, Go, C#) plus solid Postgres and AWS working knowledge, and the curiosity to get productive in the others.
- Real expertise in a domain you've held for a while: the services, how they interact, and how data flows between them not just the parts you wrote.
- A security and abuse lens by default: solid OWASP grasp, correct handling of secrets and sensitive data, and an understanding of payment-surface threats such as card testing and credential handling.
- The judgement to weigh cost against value, including where AI leverage genuinely saves time versus where it adds risk someone will pay for later.
- Communication that lands with technical and non-technical audiences alike, a habit of seeking feedback as readily as giving it, and comfort with open, respectful disagreement.
Benefits
- Immediate, large-scale impact on a high-growth business
- Top-of-the-market compensation packages
- Work alongside top regional talent, with team members from Talabat, Careem, Etisalat, and more