Senior Staff Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Define and implement backend architecture and technical strategy for cloud-native systems.
• Own feature delivery end-to-end, ensuring performance, scalability and reliability.
• Champion engineering best practices (TDD, CI/CD, clean architecture).
• Lead architecture decisions, conduct code reviews and mentor engineers to raise technical standards.
• Improve developer workflows, monitoring, observability and incident management.
• Collaborate with Product and stakeholders to align technical solutions with business goals.

Requirements

• 7+ years
• Node.js & TypeScript
• AWS expertise
• Serverless microservices
• Event-driven systems
• API design
• Distributed systems
• Production debugging
• Architecture leadership
• Mentorship experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep experience with DynamoDB patterns and performance tuning.
• Proven observability and monitoring experience (CloudWatch, X-Ray or equivalent).
• Security-first mindset for cloud-native and serverless systems.
• Experience scaling high-throughput distributed systems.
• Prior exposure to IoT, mobility or logistics platforms is a plus.

Benefits

Competitive UAE package including a market-aligned salary, annual leave and standard UAE employment benefits. Ahoy also offers professional growth opportunities, mentorship and a collaborative engineering culture. Specific benefits (health insurance, visa support, relocation) provided as applicable per hire.

About the Company

Ahoy is a Dubai-based core tech infrastructure company (founded 2018) focused on movement, mobility and logistics technology. We enable developers and organizations in the MENA region to build next-generation movement and logistics applications. Ahoy operates from Dubai, UAE and is a growing team of engineers and product builders committed to scalable, secure cloud-native systems.