Full Stack Developer — Backend Heavy

Role Overview

We are looking for a Backend-Heavy Full Stack Developer with 4+ years of experience building scalable, reliable, and production-grade applications.

The candidate should have strong backend engineering expertise in either Java Spring Boot or Node.js, along with hands-on experience in React-based frontend development and modern cloud-native infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and REST APIs.
• Build and maintain microservices using Java Spring Boot or Node.js.
• Design efficient database schemas, queries, indexes, and data-access layers.
• Develop event-driven systems using Kafka.
• Implement caching, asynchronous processing, and distributed workflows.
• Integrate third-party APIs and external services.
• Build frontend features using React.js / Next.js.
• Work closely with Product, QA, and DevOps teams.
• Write clean, maintainable, testable, and production-ready code.
• Participate in code reviews and maintain engineering standards.
• Troubleshoot production issues and perform root-cause analysis.
• Optimize applications for scalability, performance, and reliability.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and cloud deployments.

Mandatory Technical Skills

Backend — Primary Requirement

Strong expertise in one of the following:

Java Track

• Java 8+
• Spring Boot
• Spring MVC
• Spring Data JPA / Hibernate
• REST APIs
• Microservices
• Maven/Gradle
• JUnit / Mockito

OR

Node.js Track

• Node.js
• TypeScript / JavaScript
• NestJS / Express.js
• REST APIs
• Microservices
• Jest
• Asynchronous programming

Databases

• Strong SQL knowledge
• PostgreSQL / MySQL
• Database design
• Query optimization
• Indexing and transactions
• MongoDB or other NoSQL databases is a plus.

Kafka & Distributed Systems

• Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka
• Producers and consumers
• Consumer groups and partitioning
• Event-driven architecture
• Message processing and failure handling
• Understanding of asynchronous and distributed systems

AWS — Mandatory

Hands-on experience with AWS services and cloud deployments.

Expected knowledge of services such as:

• AWS EKS
• EC2
• RDS
• S3
• IAM
• CloudWatch
• ECR
• VPC / networking fundamentals

Docker & Kubernetes — Mandatory

• Strong understanding of Docker
• Creating and managing Docker images
• Dockerfile optimization
• Containerized application deployments
• Kubernetes fundamentals
• Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, Secrets
• Understanding of pods, namespaces, health checks, and resource management
• Experience deploying applications on AWS EKS is a strong requirement.

CI/CD — Mandatory

Strong hands-on experience with GitHub Actions.

• Building CI/CD pipelines
• Automated build and test workflows
• Docker image build and push
• Deployment automation
• Environment-specific configurations
• AWS integration
• Basic CI/CD security practices

Frontend

Frontend experience is required but not the primary focus.

• React.js / Next.js
• TypeScript / JavaScript
• REST API integration
• Component-based development
• Basic frontend debugging

Angular is not required.

Engineering Fundamentals

Strong understanding of:

• Data Structures & Algorithms
• Object-Oriented Programming
• SOLID principles
• Design Patterns
• REST API design
• Microservices architecture
• Distributed systems
• Database transactions and concurrency
• Authentication & Authorization
• System scalability and performance
• Unit and integration testing
• Logging, monitoring, and observability

Good to Have

• AWS EKS production experience
• Kubernetes troubleshooting
• Helm
• Redis
• Kafka-based distributed systems
• Terraform
• API Gateway
• Prometheus / Grafana
• Datadog or similar observability tools
• Experience designing systems from scratch
• Production ownership of high-traffic services

Ideal Skill Distribution

Backend Engineering: 65–70% Cloud / DevOps: 15–20% Frontend: 10–15%

This is not a frontend-heavy Full Stack role. The candidate should be capable of independently designing and implementing backend services and understanding the infrastructure required to run them in production.

Preferred Candidate

A strong candidate should be able to take a requirement from:

Requirement → Database Design → API Design → Backend Implementation → Kafka/Event Processing → Frontend Integration → Docker → CI/CD → Kubernetes/EKS → Production Monitoring

and independently own the feature through to production.

Experience

4+ years of professional software development experience, with significant hands-on backend development experience in Java Spring Boot or Node.js.

Core Technology Stack

Java Spring Boot OR Node.js | React/Next.js | PostgreSQL | Kafka | Redis | AWS | Docker | Kubernetes/EKS | GitHub Actions

Pay: AED6,000.00 - AED7,000.00 per month

Work Location: In person