Senior Backend Engineer – Noon

  • Full-Time
  • On-Site

Job Description:

Employment Type: Full-time

About the Role:
Noon is launching a greenfield product with its own identity, tech stack, and customer base. This is a fresh initiative within Noon's ecosystem, targeting a new market segment and solving unique problems.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who thrives in early-stage, high-ownership environments. You will join a founding squad, shape architecture, establish engineering culture, and deliver impactful features from day one.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Design and build distributed backend services for a high-throughput commerce platform
  • Architect scalable, fault-tolerant systems across core commerce domains including catalog, cart, checkout, payments, and order management
  • Drive technical decisions collaboratively within a fast-moving squad
  • Implement observability best practices including logging, metrics, and distributed tracing
  • Own service reliability, performance, and cost-efficiency
  • Mentor engineers and elevate team standards through code reviews and design discussions

Required Qualifications:

  • 5+ years of professional backend engineering experience
  • Strong proficiency in Python and/or Golang in production environments (FastAPI experience is a plus for Python engineers)
  • Proven experience designing high-scale, fault-tolerant distributed systems
  • Deep understanding of microservices architecture, event-driven systems, and messaging patterns
  • Strong database skills with MySQL, including schema design, query optimization, and large-scale data management
  • Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (GCP preferred), Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines
  • Strong analytical skills for debugging, profiling, and performance tuning in production
  • Comfortable working in ambiguous, fast-paced environments with high ownership
  • Excellent communication and collaboration across product, design, and engineering teams

Why Join?

  • Greenfield opportunity – build systems from scratch without legacy constraints
  • Direct ownership – own problems, not just tickets
  • Growth potential – early-stage team offers real leadership opportunities
  • Backing – leverage Noon's infrastructure, brand, and resources applied to a new product