Salla
Senior Backend Engineer - PayLink
🇸🇦 Jeddah, Saudi Arabia🔄 Hybrid
JavaSpring BootMicroservicesREST APIKafkaCI/CDFintech
At a Glance
- Category
- 💻 Technology
- Level
- Senior
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Type
- Full-time
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You design and build payment-critical backend services end to end on a modern Java stack, with a high bar for correctness, reliability and security.
What you'll do
- Design and build payment-critical backend services and APIs on Java / Spring Boot.
- Ensure correctness and reliability under load.
- Build robust integrations and event-driven flows.
- Write thorough tests and help maintain high engineering standards.
- Mentor mid-level engineers.
- 5+ years in Java backend with Spring Boot.
- 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 and REST API design; relational databases.
- Solid grasp of transactional integrity and reliability.
- Containers / CI/CD and strong automated testing.
- 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); Kafka.
Requirements
- •5+ years in Java backend with Spring Boot
- •Hands-on experience with real payment or financial-transaction systems
- •Experience with at least one payment processor or gateway (e.g. MPGS, Cybersource, or mada)
- •Strong microservices and REST API design skills
- •Proficiency with relational databases
- •Solid grasp of transactional integrity and reliability
- •Experience with Containers and CI/CD
- •Active use of AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code)
Nice to Have
- •Experience with more than one payment processor / gateway
- •Cloud platforms (OCI, AWS, or Azure)
- •Kafka
Responsibilities
- •Design and build payment-critical backend services and APIs
- •Ensure correctness and reliability under load
- •Build robust integrations and event-driven flows
- •Write thorough tests and maintain high engineering standards
- •Mentor mid-level engineers
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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.