Staff Backend Engineer

You'll carry technical leadership on your areas: direction, standards, breaking down work, unblocking people, and reviewing the work that matters.

What You'll Do

• Own the architecture and domain model for core parts of the platform — how transactions, portfolios, and money movement are represented and processed

• Make foundational technical decisions others build on, and be accountable for them

• Write production code across the stack; lead by building, not by delegating

• Set engineering standards — testing, review, observability, how we ship — and hold the bar

• Break down ambiguous problems into work the team can execute, and unblock people when they get stuck

• Mentor engineers and raise the level of everyone around you

• Partner directly with product and leadership on what to build and why

What We're Looking For

• 8+ years building production software, with a track record of staff-level impact:

you've owned a domain from ambiguity to production and others followed your technical lead
Product-and-systems thinking: you're genuinely full-stack in mindset and reach for whatever the problem needs; you've shipped user-facing product and designed the systems beneath it

• Technical leadership without needing a title: you've set direction and standards and mentored, and people followed because of the quality of your judgment

• Entrepreneurial: you're energized by a blank page, ambiguity, and owning outcomes, not just tickets

• Strong across a modern web stack: React on the frontend, and TypeScript/Node.js or JVM (Java/Kotlin) on the backend; we care about range and judgment more than any single language

• Solid PostgreSQL and data-modeling instincts

• Startup DNA: high autonomy, comfortable wearing many hats, biased to action

• Excellent communication: you can explain a hard technical trade-off to an engineer and to a stakeholder

The ideal candidate has

• Depth in financial-systems correctness: ledgers, settlement, reconciliation, idempotency. If you can own the money-movement core as well as the product, you're exactly who we're looking for.

• Private-markets, investment-platform, or securities domain experience

• Experience as an early engineer at a startup that scaled

Location & Work Style

Based in Bahrain office, but we'd consider fully remote employees outside Bahrain within 3 hours time difference. This role requires close collaboration with product and finance teams.