Software Development Engineer 2 (Back-End)

About noon

We’re building an ecosystem of digital products and services that power everyday life across the Middle East—fast, scalable, and deeply customer-centric. Our mission is to deliver to every door every day. We want to redefine what technology can do in this region, and we’re looking for a Backend Engineer level 2 (SDE2) who can help us move even faster.

noon’s mission: Every door, every day.

What you'll do:

Team noon has some of the fastest, smartest, and hardest-working people we have encountered. With a young, aggressive, and talented team, we are driving major missions forward.

We are looking for a Backend Engineer level 2 (SDE2) to join our Noon Food engineering team, working on systems that operate under high throughput, real-time constraints, and intensive workloads. You will build and scale backend services that power critical decision-making, handle large volumes of data and events, and maintain low latency and high reliability in production environments.

• Develop clean and effective engineering solutions to our business problems
• Design fault-tolerant, highly available distributed systems
• Be able to translate requirements into bug-free working code
• Mentor and lead more junior members of the engineering team
• Develop APIs and services that handle real-time decisioning and high concurrency
• Work with event-driven and asynchronous systems
• Integrate with external partners/APIs.

What you’ll need:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
• Experience with our core stack (Python, FastAPI, Pydantic, MySQL)
• Familiarity with GCP-native data solutions such as Bigtable, Spanner, and BigQuery
• Strong SQL skills with confidence in writing and optimizing queries
• 5 years of relevant backend engineering experience
• Ability to effectively leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, including knowing when to automate vs. handle tasks manually
• Hands-on experience building and working with distributed systems

Who will excel?

• We’re looking for people with high standards, who understand that hard work matters.
• You need to be relentlessly resourceful and operate with a deep bias for action.
• We need people with the courage to be fiercely original.
• noon is not for everyone; readiness to adapt, pivot, and learn is essential.