TALENTMATE
Backend Engineer
TALENTMATEUnited Arab Emirates1 day ago
Full-timeEngineering, Information Technology
Job Description

About us:

Soar is a global fintech startup that specializes in financing and investment. Currently headquartered in Saudi Arabia, Soar is growing throughout the region with a mission to help people achieve their financial goals with innovative financial and property investment solutions and tools through its multi-purpose platform, designed to offer a simple and seamless user experience.

Role Summary

We are looking for a Backend Engineer who enjoys building clean,reliable APIs and stable integrations.

This role is focused on execution, quality, and predictability — writing backend code that works correctly, is easy to maintain, and integrates smoothly with other systems.

You will work as part of a backend engineering team responsible for developing internal services and integrating with external platforms.

Key Responsibilities

  • Building and maintaining backend APIs
  • Developing services that support financial and operational workflows
  • Integrating with third-party systems via REST APIs
  • Supporting notification and background processing services
  • Improving reliability, observability, and test coverage of backend services
  • Target Persona
  • Execution-focused and disciplined
  • Writes clear, maintainable backend code
  • Thinks about edge cases and failure scenarios
  • Values testing and automation
  • Comfortable working within defined architectures and standards

Qualifications & Skills

  • Backend Language
  • 4+ years of experience with Node.js
  • Strong proficiency in TypeScript and Javascript
  • API Design
  • Strong understanding of RESTful API design
  • Hands-on experience with: OpenAPI / Swagger
  • Ability to design APIs that are: clear, consistent, and well-documented
  • Database
  • Solid experience with MongoDB

Comfortable With

  • CRUD operations
  • Aggregation pipelines
  • Understands schema design and performance considerations
  • Testing & Quality
  • Strong unit testing mindset
  • Experience using Jest and/or Mocha
  • Writes code that: passes automated tests, behaves consistently in CI, and requires minimal rework
  • Integration Experience
  • Experience integrating with third-party REST APIs
  • Error handling, retries, timeouts, basic idempotency concepts

Nice-to-Have Skills

  • Experience with Redis for caching
  • Basic knowledge of Docker or containerized environments
  • Familiarity with event-driven systems

Job Details

Role Level: Entry-Level Work Type: Full-Time Country: United Arab Emirates City: Dubai Company Website: https://soar.inc/ Job Function: Information Technology (IT) Company Industry/

Sector: Financial Services

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