Lead Software Engineer at Flatgigs · Dubai

About the Role We are seeking an experienced Staff Software Engineer to lead the design and delivery of secure, scalable backend systems. This is a hands-on leadership role with responsibilities spanning architecture, coding, and mentoring, while partnering closely with Product and cross-functional teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build reliable, testable, production-ready backend services.

• Drive architectural decisions and own features end-to-end.

• Write clean, maintainable code with strong test coverage.

• Mentor engineers and set best practices across the team.

• Oversee system monitoring, incident response, and workflow improvements.

• Collaborate cross-functionally and contribute to hiring efforts.

• 5+ years backend experience, 4+ years with Node.js & TypeScript.

• Strong expertise in AWS (Lambda, Cognito, S3, DynamoDB, SQS/SNS, CloudFormation).

• Experience with serverless, microservices, event-driven architectures.

• Skilled in TDD, CI/CD, REST/GraphQL APIs, secure coding.

• Proficiency in SQL and NoSQL databases.

• Startup/fast-paced environment experience preferred.