Software Development Engineer III

About noon

noon, the region's leading consumer commerce platform. On December 12th, 2017, noon launched its consumer platform in Saudi Arabia and the UAE, expanding to Egypt in February 2019. The noon ecosystem of services now includes marketplaces for food delivery, quick-commerce, fintech, and fashion. noon is a work in progress; we’re six years in, but only 5% done.

noon’s mission: every door, everyday.

About the project

Today’s customers often have immediate shopping needs - from last-minute gifts and occasion outfits to urgent travel essentials. However, most premium brands in Dubai operate primarily through physical stores, leaving no convenient way to access their products instantly.

noon’s new venture aims to bridge this gap by bringing stores online . It allows customers to shop from their favorite premium brands from the comfort of their homes and receive their orders instantly - no traffic, no parking, no waiting.

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer with deep expertise in modern technologies to help build and scale our next-generation e-commerce systems. You will design and deliver highly scalable, highly available, and cost-efficient backend services that power mission-critical shopping experiences used by millions of customers.

This role requires strong technical leadership, architectural thinking, and hands-on development in a high-throughput, low-latency environment.

What You'll do

• Design, build, and optimize distributed backend services for high-traffic e-commerce applications.
• Architect and maintain highly scalable, highly available services to support core commerce features such as catalog, search, promotions, cart, checkout, payments, and order lifecycle.
• Implement observability best practices (logging, metrics, tracing).
• Lead performance tuning, reliability engineering, and cost optimization efforts across services and data systems.
• Investigate and resolve complex production issues, ensuring system resilience and graceful degradation strategies.
• Advocate for and implement engineering best practices, code quality, and long-term maintainability.
• Mentor and guide junior and mid-level engineers, raising the team’s technical bar.

What You’ll Need

• 5+ years of professional backend engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in Python/Golang in production environments.
• Proven experience designing high-scale, fault-tolerant, distributed systems .
• Solid understanding of microservices architecture , event-driven systems , streaming systems and messaging patterns .
• Hands-on experience with cloud technologies (GCP preferred).
• Deep experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker), and Kubernetes.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including performance tuning and debugging.
• Ability to work in fast-paced, ambiguous environments with a high degree of ownership.
• Excellent technical communication, and collaboration skills.

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.