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Tabby is a fintech platform reshaping how people shop, earn, and save. With over 25 million users and $18 billion in annual transaction volume, Tabby is the largest and fastest-growing fintech in the GCC region. The company has raised over $1 billion in funding and is valued at $6.5 billion.
We are seeking a Staff Engineer to drive high-impact technical initiatives within our Core Backend organization. You will shape the technical direction and roadmap of shared services, libraries, and developer tools used across Tabby's engineering teams globally.
Key responsibilities:
- Shape the technical direction and roadmap of Core Backend, building shared services, libraries, and developer tools used by engineering teams across Tabby.
- Identify common challenges across teams and turn them into reusable solutions that improve developer productivity, system reliability, and security.
- Lead the design and evolution of shared backend capabilities, including event-driven communication, application-level encryption, and sensitive data protection.
- Develop internal engineering tools such as the Service Catalog, API Registry, SLO platform, and AI-assisted development tools, making them useful and easy to adopt.
- Drive complex initiatives from problem discovery and design through implementation, rollout, and production validation, coordinating work across engineers and teams.
- Work closely with teams using our tools to understand their needs, support integrations and migrations, and use feedback to guide further improvements.
- Stay hands-on with Go, validate performance and failure scenarios, and build observability and recovery mechanisms into systems that other teams depend on.
- Raise the engineering bar through architecture reviews, clear technical decisions, mentoring, and documentation that enables others to own and extend shared systems.
Requirements:
- 7+ years of backend engineering, including building and operating production systems at scale.
- Strong Go experience and a track record of staying hands-on in senior technical roles.
- Deep expertise in distributed, high-load systems. Experience with PostgreSQL, Redis, Kubernetes, GCP, GitLab, and microservices.
- Proven ownership of complex initiatives from design through production, including architecture and technology decisions with lasting impact.
- Strong grasp of quality, security, observability, and operational excellence.
- Experience integrating third-party APIs and contributing to product development.
- Ability to influence decisions across teams and explain technical topics clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience mentoring engineers and raising the technical bar across a team or organization.
- Strong English and a proactive, autonomous approach to ambiguous problems.
