Senior Backend Engineer, Financial Services

Michael Page is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer for a technology-led financial services organisation in the UAE. Open to any nationality.

Location: UAE

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and build large-scale distributed systems serving millions of users
• Design event-driven architectures, partitioning strategies and scalable data platforms with a focus on reliability and fault tolerance
• Lead performance optimisation across application, infrastructure, storage, networking and caching layers
• Own systems end to end, from design and development through production operations
• Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies, including AI-driven capabilities

Requirements

• Extensive experience building scalable distributed systems in production
• Experience operating services handling 20,000 to 30,000+ requests per second
• Deep knowledge of system design, concurrency, consistency models and performance engineering
• Track record solving scaling, latency and availability problems on mission-critical platforms