Senior Backend Engineer at Talabat – Dubai | May 2026

Senior Backend Engineer at Talabat – Dubai | May 2026

Talabat, the MENA region’s most-loved food delivery and quick-commerce platform, is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join its growing engineering hub in Dubai. Solve distributed-systems problems at massive scale — millions of orders, real-time routing, sub-second APIs.

About the Role

Design and maintain high-throughput microservices that underpin ordering, fulfilment and payment pipelines for millions of customers. You’ll be embedded in a product squad alongside data engineers, mobile engineers and product managers. The stack centres on Python and Go, running on Kubernetes in Google Cloud.

Key Requirements

  • 5+ years of backend engineering with strong Python or Go expertise
  • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker and cloud-native deployment
  • Deep knowledge of distributed systems, message queues (Kafka/RabbitMQ) and caching (Redis)
  • Experience with relational and NoSQL databases at production scale
  • Strong ownership mindset — you define, build and maintain what you ship

Why Dubai?

Dubai is home to some of the fastest-growing tech companies in the world — Talabat engineers enjoy top-tier compensation, zero income tax, and the excitement of solving real logistics challenges at regional scale.

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