Salla
Lead Backend Engineer - PayLink
🇸🇦 Jeddah, Saudi Arabia🔄 Hybrid
JavaSpring BootMicroservicesKubernetesCI/CDFintechREST API
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- Category
- 💻 Technology
- Level
- Senior
- Type
- Full-time
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A hands-on engineering lead who sets technical direction, owns code quality, and builds payment-critical backend services on a modern Java stack, while guiding and growing a team of backend engineers.
What you'll do
- Provide hands-on technical leadership for backend engineering on a modern Java / Spring Boot stack.
- Design and build payment-critical backend services and APIs.
- Own code quality: standards, code review, testing and release readiness.
- Ensure correctness, reliability and security across the services the team owns.
- Mentor and grow backend engineers, and work closely with architecture and product.
- 8+ years in Java backend with strong Spring Boot.
- Proven technical leadership while remaining hands-on in the code.
- Hands-on payments / fintech experience is required — you have worked on real payment or financial-transaction systems.
- Hands-on experience with at least one payment processor or gateway (e.g. MPGS, Cybersource or mada). This is a requirement for this role.
- Strong microservices, REST API design, relational databases and automated testing.
- Delivery on containers (Kubernetes) with CI/CD.
- AI-augmented engineering — you actively use AI coding tools such as Claude Code in your day-to-day development. This is a requirement for this role.Nice to have
- Experience with more than one payment processor / gateway.
- Cloud platforms (OCI, AWS or Azure); event-driven systems (Kafka).
Requirements
- •8+ years in Java backend development
- •Strong Spring Boot proficiency
- •Proven technical leadership with hands-on coding experience
- •Hands-on payments or fintech experience (real payment/financial systems)
- •Experience with at least one payment processor or gateway (e.g., MPGS, Cybersource, or mada)
- •Strong microservices and REST API design skills
- •Relational database and automated testing experience
- •Experience with containers (Kubernetes) and CI/CD
Nice to Have
- •Experience with more than one payment processor / gateway
- •Cloud platforms (OCI, AWS, or Azure)
- •Event-driven systems (Kafka)
Responsibilities
- •Provide hands-on technical leadership for backend engineering
- •Design and build payment-critical backend services and APIs
- •Own code quality standards, code review, testing, and release readiness
- •Ensure correctness, reliability, and security across services
- •Mentor and grow backend engineers
- •Work closely with architecture and product teams
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Company
Salla is an e-commerce platform that enables businesses to create and manage online stores. It provides tools for selling products online in Saudi Arabia.