Established in 2008, Geidea epitomizes customer focused empowerment and commercial success through continuous innovation.Geidea makes best in class digital payment solutions available for all by attracting and leveraging the best creative & entrepreneurial talent in the marketOur solutions give any business the chance to get ahead and reach for more no matter their size or maturity.Our technology mirrors our people - Smart, Innovative & Forward Thinkingwww.geidea.netTo maintain a competitive advantage as we grow, we are currently looking for a new "Lead Backend Engineer"Job purpose:The role is responsible for the design and evolution of distributed systems, backend services, and platform components, introducing and governing key patterns and performance benchmarks, and ensuring that Geidea’s internal platforms are scalable, reliable, observable, secure, and maintainable across markets.The System Designer works closely with product and engineering teams to align system capabilities with business goals, and with infrastructure, DevOps and SRE teams to ensure that systems are robustly deployed, monitored, and continuously improved.Responsibilities:Translate the Group architecture and technology strategy into concrete system design standards, patterns, and guidelines for distributed systems and backend services.Maintain shared design templates, documentation standards, and guardrails to ensure consistency across squads and markets.Design and evolve core system componentsAssess and performs the low-level designs and drafts the supporting documents and diagrams as well as the evaluation of key platform components and backend services, from ideation and prototyping through detailed design, implementation guidance, deployment, and observability.Balance trade-offs between scalability, reliability, maintainability, performance, and delivery speed, escalating structural decisions when required.Introduce patterns and performance benchmarksDefine reusable design patterns, performance benchmarks, and reference implementations aligned with Group architectures.Work with engineering teams to ensure high-throughput, low-latency, and fault-tolerant designs for payment and transactional platforms.Partner with Product, Infrastructure, DevOps, and SRECollaborate with Product and Infrastructure teams to align system capabilities with business goals, capacity plans, and regulatory constraints.Partner with DevOps and SRE to ensure system designs support robust CI/CD pipelines, roll-back strategies, observability, and disaster recovery approaches.Drive performance diagnostics, observability, and fault tolerance by designLead performance diagnostics and design-level root cause analysis for major incidents or bottlenecks.Ensure observability (logging, metrics, tracing) and resilience patterns are embedded in designs.Evaluate and integrate emerging technologiesEvaluate emerging technologies, tools, and frameworks relevant to backend, platform, and observability, and make recommendations that improve scalability, reliability, security, or developer productivity.Pilot selected technologies with engineering teams and document best practices.Qualifications:7+ years in backend/software engineering, with hands-on experience building and operating distributed systems or high-throughput services.2+ years in technical leadership, system design, or system architecture, guiding teams through complex design decisions and owning outcomes across multiple squads or services.Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field is required.Certifications (e.g., TOGAF) is a big plusMust Have:Strong understanding of system architecture principles, design patterns, and software engineering best practicesStrong knowledge of enterprise integration, APIs, microservices, and distributed systemsSolid grasp of networking fundamentals, firewalls, load balancers, and security protocolsSolid understanding of cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)Experience with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible)Experience with performance tuning, observability, and system reliability engineeringPreferred:Exposure to frontend technologies and UI/UX collaborationExperience in regulated industries (e.g., finance, healthcare) with compliance-aware architectureOur values guide how we think and act - They describe what we care about the mostCustomer first - It’s embedded in our design thinking and customer service approachOpen - Openness allows us to constantly improve and evolveReal - No jargon and no excuses!Bold - Constantly challenging ourselves and our way of thinking.Resilient – If we fail, we bounce back stronger than before.Collaborative - We know that we can achieve a lot more as a team.We are changing lives by constantly striving for a better solution.
We are on a mission to help merchants start, run and grow their businesses.
What you should know
Dominant Market Share: Captured 50% of Saudi Arabia's point-of-sale market within just two years of launching its first certified terminal
Massive Payment Network: Operates a network of approximately 700,000 payment terminals and ATMs across the region
2 First Licenses: Became the first fintech in Saudi Arabia to obtain a payment institution license and a non-bank merchant acquiring license
How they work
Infrastructure means reliability first — Payment systems can't be interesting at the cost of being unreliable — engineering and product decisions are made with uptime and trust as the primary constraints
Merchant churn is the failure metric — Acquiring a merchant matters less than keeping them — the business model only works when merchants see real value and stay