Senior Backend Developer

Position: Senior Backend Developer
Company: KPTAC Technologies
Location: Dubai, UAE
Type: Full-time

Job Overview:

KPTAC Technologies LLC is a dynamic and innovative company specializing in cutting-edge technology solutions. We pride ourselves on delivering exceptional digital experiences and fostering a culture of creativity, collaboration, and excellence.

About the Role

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will own the design, implementation, and operation of our high-throughput, microservices-based REST APIs. You’ll work across Go and Python services, ensuring scalable, fault-tolerant communication, data integrity, and sub-millisecond response times. You’ll also lead the evolution of our cloud infrastructure, container tooling, and observability practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Architecture & Design: Lead service-oriented design sessions, and define API contracts, event schemas, and data models.
• Service Development: Build and maintain Python (FastAPI, Django) microservices.
• Inter-Service Communication: Implement and optimize asynchronous messaging (RabbitMQ) and event streaming patterns.
• Data Management: Design schemas and performance-tune PostgreSQL and Cassandra clusters. Implement Redis caching layers.
• Containerization & Deployment: Own Docker Compose workflows locally, and AWS ECS (EC2 & Fargate) deployments via CloudFormation.
• Observability & Reliability: Instrument services with structured logging (ELK), distributed tracing, and error monitoring (e.g. Sentry).
• Mentorship: Coach mid-level engineers, and establish best practices for code quality, testing, and CI/CD pipelines.

Must-Have Qualifications (7+ years)

• Backend Development: ≥7 years building production-grade microservices architectures.
• Languages & Frameworks: Deep expertise in Python with FastAPI, Django, and Django Ninja.
• Messaging: Proven experience with RabbitMQ (or equivalent brokers) for robust, at-scale messaging.
• Datastores: Hands-on with relational (PostgreSQL), NoSQL (Apache Cassandra), and Graph databases; comprehensive Redis usage.
• Containerization: Extensive Docker/Docker Compose usage; operational knowledge of AWS ECS (EC2 & Fargate).
• Networking & Proxies: Solid experience configuring Traefik or Nginx in containerized environments.
• API Security & Performance: Strong track record designing secure, high-performance REST and gRPC endpoints.
• Production Ops: Skilled troubleshooting and monitoring live systems using ELK, Sentry, Prometheus, etc.

Nice To have:

• AWS Ecosystem: Deep familiarity with S3, CloudFront, VPC design, ALBs, and CloudFormation.
• Infrastructure as Code: Experience authoring and managing CloudFormation templates or Terraform modules.
• Kubernetes: Practical knowledge of Kubernetes for advanced orchestration and resiliency.
• Asynchronous Patterns: ASGI/Daphne for high-concurrency Fast API apps.

Interested candidates can apply from the above posting and are also encouraged to submit their updated resume and a portfolio of relevant work to arlia@kptac.com - 056-9985010 (WhatsApp) or harinie@kptac.com

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: AED12,000.00 - AED18,000.00 per month

Education:

• Bachelor's (Required)

Language:

• English (Required)

Location:

• Dubai (Required)