Summary
SAEQ is building a trucking marketplace platform to connect customers with vetted drivers and digitize shipment booking, availability and pricing. The Senior Backend Engineer will help design and build the platform's MVP, including APIs, microservices and scalable backend services. The role requires strong experience with JavaScript or TypeScript, databases, authentication, network security and software architecture, along with production troubleshooting skills. The posting prefers at least four years of software engineering experience and lists relevant computer science or engineering education requirements. The role is located in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
The posting
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Senior Software Engineer - Backend Architecture
Overview:
We are building an Uber for Trucks marketplace platform. We promise our vetted drivers and ensure they find trips on their empty miles while digitizing the entire trucking network for customers, making their shipments easier to haul and providing transparency into availability and price. We are establishing a team of talented, thoughtful engineers to automate the logistics industry. Now we need a literate software engineering team to help us build the first MVP for our marketplace platform.
Requirements:
Must have:
nodejs/npm/javascript (or typescript)
git/CI/CD and project tracking tools
no-SQL database experience, such as Mongo/Firebase
authentication mechanisms
network security (CORS, SSL/TLS, etc.)
strong on algorithms & data structures
concurrent & asynchronous patterns
architectural & software design patterns
experience building APIs (HTTP/ws)
Will be a bonus:
GPS/GSM API (Google/Open Maps)
GraphQL
mastering TDD / unit testing
docker/docker-compose
modern network protocols
prior experience in distributed/system design
prior experience in protocols design
real time metrics (prometheus/sentry/grafana)
basic knowledge of react js stack
writing & maintaining technical documentation
Preferred qualifications
- At least Four years of software engineering experience
- Experience as a developer, writing code for highly scalable software systems
- Proven experience designing and deploying high performance, highly scalable production services with extensive monitoring and logging practices
- Ability to debug and troubleshoot production issues
- Experience with http/ws API development & building microservices
- Industry experience working on distributed systems: developing reliable, high performance, highly scalable and low latency software (primarily in JavaScript)
- Capacity to understand and evaluate tradeoffs between correctness, robustness, performance, space, and time.
- Experience building geospatial services and datasets, such as maps data, traffic patterns, etc.
- Strong verbal and written communication and organization skills.
- Strong problem-solving skills, analytical capabilities, data analysis, and attention to detail.
- Ability to collaborate across multiple levels of an organization
Required Minimum Educational Qualifications:
- 4+ BSc degree in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant field
- Masters Degree in Software Engineering
- Preferred specialization architecture