Senior Backend Engineer

The Company

Toters is an on-demand e-commerce and delivery platform that enables customers to get anything in their city with the highest level of convenience.

Technology is at the heart of everything we do. Our product and engineering teams work every day to build experiences that make customers’ lives easier while continuously improving internal systems to deliver faster and at the best cost.

If you’re excited about working in a high-growth startup environment and want to be part of a team shaping the future of how people shop in the Middle East, we’d love to hear from you.

About the Role

Are you passionate about building scalable, high-performance backend systems and mentoring engineers? As a Senior Backend Engineer at Toters, you’ll drive the architecture and delivery of complex features, influence technical direction, and elevate the team’s overall impact.

Whether you’re leading initiatives within a single team or shaping cross-team architecture and long-running programs, you’ll have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on our products and engineering culture.

In this role, you will:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate requirements into well-designed features for our mobile app.
• Design, develop, and test complex features, prioritizing scalability, performance, and a smooth user experience.
• Own the end-to-end technical delivery of multi-sprint initiatives, from architectural design through production release and post-launch monitoring.
• Make architectural decisions that improve modularization, maintainability, and long-term system reliability.
• Create reusable, scalable components and establish patterns that become standards for the team.
• Optimize performance to ensure quick and responsive user interactions, even under high-load scenarios.
• Implement robust security measures for data protection and compliance.
• Improve observability by defining monitoring standards, dashboards, alerts, and failure-handling strategies.
• Lead refactoring efforts to reduce technical debt and increase development velocity.
• Drive improvements in CI/CD pipelines, automation, and testing practices to ensure safe and efficient releases.
• Conduct rigorous testing and define quality standards for complex features.
• Integrate mobile apps with backend APIs in coordination with backend engineers, ensuring stable and well-defined interfaces.
• Identify risks early, propose mitigation strategies, and balance trade-offs between delivery speed and long-term maintainability.
• Participate in roadmap discussions by assessing technical feasibility, dependencies, and architectural impact.
• Act as a technical reference within the team, guiding design discussions and resolving complex engineering challenges.
• Participate in code reviews to uphold quality, provide coaching-level feedback, and elevate team standards.
• Support cross-functional troubleshooting, lead incident resolution when needed, and ensure long-term fixes are implemented.
• Mentor and support other engineers to raise overall team capability and engineering excellence.

Key Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 6+ years of backend software development experience.
• Strong expertise in PHP (Laravel) or similar backend frameworks (Java, Python).
• Deep understanding of OOP, design patterns, SOLID principles, and system design.
• Experience with PostgreSQL/MySQL, caching, and queueing systems (Redis).
• Familiarity with AWS, serverless, or containerized architectures.
• Experience working in Agile teams and tools such as Jira.
• Strong English communication skills and ability to mentor engineers.
• Passion for building high-quality, scalable, and maintainable systems.

Nice to Have

• Experience collaborating with product, legal, and operations teams on KYC/B, identity, and privacy compliance.
  
• Hands on experience with Salesforce and POS integrations. 
• Previous experience with food delivery or on-demand platforms.
  
• Strong technical documentation skills.
  
• Proven cross-functional collaboration and partnership abilities.
  
  

Why Toters?

• Flexible work environment with hybrid-friendly roles.
• Opportunity to lead impactful initiatives and shape technical strategy.
• Collaborate with talented engineers while growing your career.
• Strong culture of mentorship, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• Direct impact on products used by thousands of customers every day.
• Competitive compensation package.
• Exclusive discounts on Toters orders.
• First-class medical insurance.