Senior Backend Developer

Lean provides developers with a universal API to access their customers' financial accounts across the Middle East. We recognized that infrastructure barriers were hindering fintech growth in our home markets and set out to build a solution. With Lean, developers at any level can now create advanced financial solutions without grappling with infrastructure complexities, allowing them to focus squarely on customer needs.

Why Join Us?

Our products have garnered enthusiastic feedback from both developers and customers. With Sequoia leading our $33 million Series A round, our debut in the GCC marks just the beginning. We're committed to expanding regionally and enhancing stakeholder value. If you thrive on solving challenges and making a lasting impact, Lean is the place for you.

We offer competitive salaries, private healthcare, flexible office hours, and ensure every team member holds meaningful equity. Join us on our journey of enabling the next wave of financial innovation!

About the Role

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in developing the infrastructure that supports the future of the financial ecosystem. We seek a motivated problem-solver who thrives on challenges and delivers compelling solutions. You'll lead knowledge sharing across our engineering team, mentor individuals, and contribute to complex feature design and development.

Requirements

- 8+ years of professional experience in Java, Spring Boot, and Microservices

- Proficiency in PostgreSQL, Kafka, Scripting, and REST

- Experience as a Squad/Tech Lead, adept at designing and developing complex features

- Worked in distributed teams and with open-source APIs

- Eagerness to learn and implement new technologies

- Familiarity with CI/CD and DevOps systems and processes

- Self-motivated with a preference for autonomy and ownership

- Startup experience and interest in the fintech industry, particularly Open Banking

Bonus

- Experience in developing payment solutions (p2p, B2C, B2B)

- Previous work in the financial sector

Join us and shape the future of fintech with Lean!

We are seeking a skilled NestJS/PostgreSQL Developer to join our development team. As a NestJS/PostgreSQL Developer, you will be responsible for designing and implementing server-side applications, APIs, and databases using NestJS framework and PostgreSQL. You will work closely with other developers, stakeholders, and project managers to deliver high-quality software solutions.

Responsibilities:

1. Develop server-side applications and APIs using the NestJS framework.
2. Design and implement efficient and scalable database schemas using PostgreSQL.
3. Collaborate with front-end developers to integrate server-side logic with the user interface.
4. Write clean and maintainable code following best practices and coding standards.
5. Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to improve code quality.
6. Optimize application performance and troubleshoot any issues or bugs.
7. Work closely with stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
8. Participate in the entire software development lifecycle, including planning, designing, coding, testing, and deployment.
9. Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies in web development, NestJS, and PostgreSQL.

Requirements:

1. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
2. Proven experience (2-5 years) in server-side application development using NestJS framework.
3. Strong knowledge of TypeScript and JavaScript.
4. Experience with PostgreSQL or other relational databases.
5. Proficiency in building and consuming RESTful APIs.
6. Familiarity with Git version control system.
7. Good understanding of software development principles, design patterns, and best practices.
8. Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.
9. Strong communication and collaboration skills.
10. Ability to work independently as well as in a team environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Experience with other JavaScript frameworks such as Angular or React.
2. Knowledge of microservices architecture and containerization (e.g., Docker).
3. Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP.
4. Experience with testing frameworks (e.g., Jest, Jasmine).
5. Understanding of Agile/Scrum development methodologies.

We're on a mission to make it possible for every person, team, and company to be able to tailor their software to solve any problem and take on any challenge. Computers may be our most powerful tools, but most of us can't build or modify the software we use on them every day. At Notion, we want to change this with focus, design, and craft.

We've been working on this together since 2016, and have customers like Pixar, Mitsubishi, Figma, Plaid, Match Group, and thousands more on this journey with us. Today, we're growing fast and excited for new teammates to join us who are the best at what they do. We're passionate about building a company as diverse and creative as the millions of people Notion reaches worldwide.

Millions of people use Notion — and this number is increasing every day. That means a million people trust us to deliver a fast, reliable, and secure experience, and we value this more than anything. We want to keep earning trust, while also continuing to amaze our users with the tools they can build in Notion. This is where you come in — to help us forge a performant and reliable path forward to the future.

• Write clean, secure, tested, and documented code.
• Design & enhance the Notion platform with new capabilities, as and when the need arises.
• Contribute to monitoring & scaling the architecture of the platform and the infrastructure.
• Write technical documentation, and contribute to determining internal processes.
• Contribute to recruiting of new backend employees

• 6+ years of experience building scalable platforms. 
• Good understanding of database (Relational Or Nosql) internals like transactions, indexes. Experience in schema design.
• 2+ years of experience working on the AWS platform, and acquaintance with technologies like Elastic Beanstalk, AWS Lambda, Elastic Load Balancer.
• Good understanding of docker internals.
• Good communication skills, good leadership skills, attention to detail, a sound understanding of algorithms, and object-oriented programming.

• You're proficient with any part of our technology stack: React, TypeScript, Node.js, Memcached, Postgres, Docker, and Elasticsearch.
• You've heard of computing pioneers like Ada Lovelace, Douglas Engelbart, Alan Kay, and others—and understand why we're big fans of their work.
• You have interests outside of technology, such as in art, history, or social sciences.

Our customers come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for small businesses, you will find a home at Notion.

Notion is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Notion considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Notion is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation made due to a disability, please let your recruiter know.

• Total of 3-5 years of experience building cutting-edge products.
• Must have a degree in Computer Science or a related field. Strong understanding of object-oriented programming, concurrency, and fundamentals of computer science.

• Technically Hands-on, prior experience with scalable Architecture.
• Bring 3-5 years of software engineering and product delivery experience, with a strong background in algorithms.
• Excellent command over Data Structures and Algorithm Proficiency in implementation of algorithms and use of advanced data structures to solve problems in computing
• Exceptional coding skills in an Object-Oriented programming language (Python preferred with Django framework).
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Experience with web technologies Java/Python, Linux, Apache, MySQL, solr, memcache, redis.
• Experience in architecting & building real-time, large-scale e-commerce applications.
• Experience with high-performance websites catering to millions of daily traffic is a plus.

• Java/ Python, MySQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, Problem Solving, Scalability, Design Patterns, Distributed System

• Develop complex software products that include scale, algorithmic complexity, and a huge amount of data.
• Build cutting-edge scalable systems by writing simple and efficient code.
• Code, develop, design, and architect features related to the existing application. We expect you to own modules end to end and take pride in the work products you ship
• Contribute to all aspects of an agile software development lifecycle including design, architecture, development, documentation, testing, and operations.
• Design, implement, and maintain highly scalable, multi-tier, distributed server software applications
• Deliver across the entire app life cycle, design, build, deploy, test, release to app stores, and support
• Working directly with developers and product managers to conceptualize, build, test, and release products
• Take responsibility for performance and stability for all server functions
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency

As a Senior Software Engineer you have complete ownership of building out the Docexa product along with product people and the rest of the engineering team. This role will act as a great springboard to accelerate career growth & transition into a Tech Lead level role.

Your daily life

• Architecting of the whole platform
• Development of server-side logic
• Building new services and APIs
• Developing core business logic
• Maintenance of current APIs
• Improving the performance and reliability of our systems as we scale

Must-have skills

• You’ve been building web applications professionally for 4+ years
• You’re proficient in PHP 7, Laravel, and PostgreSQL
• You possess strong OOP and design pattern knowledge
• You are familiar with modern technology systems: AWS, load balancers, Kafka queues, caching, etc.
• You write understandable, testable and easy to maintain code
• You’ve the ability to build RESTful APIs
• Explaining complex technical concepts to designers, support team, and fellow engineers is not a problem for you
• Well versed with the fundamentals of computer science and distributed systems

Why join the navy when you can be the pirate?

Get onboard this ship & let's make KYC and onboarding easier than ever!

We want to ensure that our tech is successfully consumed by end users easily.

We are looking forward to work with you.

We would love to have you for the following reasons :

• Strong hold in python based backends such as Flask & Django
• Knowledge of backend principles, patterns, and best practices
• Aware of the open-source ecosystem and the libraries available.
• Proficient understanding of Git
• Must have written Unit, Integration and UI Test Cases
• Understanding of Cloud hosting (AWS,Azure) principles and interface guidelines
• Experience in working with distrubuted data using REST APIs, JSON and other technologies
• Potential interns with experience in containers will hold an advantage.
• Experience in Kafka & ELK will be an advantage.
• Experience of 1-2 years.