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