Senior Backend Engineer, Payments

About the role

Meridian Gulf Digital is hiring a backend engineer in Dubai. You will design the data models, services and APIs everything else in the product depends on. The work is judged on whether it stays correct under concurrency, partial failure and three years of requirement changes, not on how quickly the first version shipped.

Salaries in the UAE are advertised and paid MONTHLY and are free of income tax, which makes a straight comparison against an annual European or Indian figure misleading in both directions. Read the range below as what lands each month.

What the work actually looks like

Expect a mix of new services, careful changes to old ones, and migrations on data that cannot be taken offline. You will write the design note before the code for anything substantial, and you will be the person who says out loud that a proposed change makes a guarantee impossible to keep. The team works a hybrid week out of Dubai, usually three days together and the rest wherever you work best.

What we look for

This is a senior individual-contributor role. You will be expected to push back on requirements that do not make sense and to set the technical direction for your part of the product. We are looking for someone fluent in schema design and indexing who thinks about idempotency, transactions and ordering as a matter of habit. Depth in one server language matters more to us than a list of six.

Working at Meridian Gulf Digital

The working week runs Monday to Friday, the company sponsors employment visas for the successful candidate and their dependants, and relocation is arranged and paid for. The range shown is a MONTHLY figure, which is how this market advertises salaries — it is not an annual number.