# Lead Backend Engineer - PayLink — Salla

Canonical: https://jobxdubai.com/jobs/2b4600d833-lead-backend-engineer-paylink
Location: Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Type: full_time · Level: lead
Monthly salary: AED 11,760 to 17,640 per month (estimated, not employer-stated) (UAE salaries are tax-free)
Posted: 2026-09-28
Apply: https://apply.workable.com/j/2B4600D833

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## Description

A hands-on engineering lead who sets technical direction, owns code quality, and builds payment-critical backend services on a modern Java stack, while guiding and growing a team of backend engineers.
What you'll do
- Provide hands-on technical leadership for backend engineering on a modern Java / Spring Boot stack.
- Design and build payment-critical backend services and APIs.
- Own code quality: standards, code review, testing and release readiness.
- Ensure correctness, reliability and security across the services the team owns.
- Mentor and grow backend engineers, and work closely with architecture and product.
Requirements

- 8+ years in Java backend with strong Spring Boot.
- Proven technical leadership while remaining hands-on in the code.
- Hands-on payments / fintech experience is required — you have worked on real payment or financial-transaction systems.
- Hands-on experience with at least one payment processor or gateway (e.g. MPGS, Cybersource or mada). This is a requirement for this role.
- Strong microservices, REST API design, relational databases and automated testing.
- Delivery on containers (Kubernetes) with CI/CD.
- AI-augmented engineering — you actively use AI coding tools such as Claude Code in your day-to-day development. This is a requirement for this role.
Nice to have
- Experience with more than one payment processor / gateway.
- Cloud platforms (OCI, AWS or Azure); event-driven systems (Kafka).

## Requirements

8+ years in Java backend with strong Spring Boot. Proven technical leadership while remaining hands-on in the code. Hands-on payments / fintech experience is required — you have worked on real payment or financial-transaction systems. Hands-on experience with at least one payment processor or gateway (e.g. MPGS, Cybersource or mada). This is a requirement for this role. Strong microservices, REST API design, relational databases and automated testing. Delivery on containers (Kubernetes) with CI/CD. AI-augmented engineering — you actively use AI coding tools such as Claude Code in your day-to-day development. This is a requirement for this role.

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