Lucidya | لوسيديا

Senior Backend Engineer / Lead

Lucidya | لوسيديا

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSAzureCassandraCloudDistributed SystemsGoogle Cloud PlatformMicroservicesNoSQLPostgresPythonReactRedisRubyRuby on RailsSQL

About the role

  • Lead, mentor, and manage backend engineers, fostering collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
  • Establish best practices for backend development, code reviews, and testing standards.
  • Guide the team to build backend systems that enable self-serve onboarding, trial-to-paid conversions, and retention loops.
  • Support experimentation with feature flags, A/B testing, and PLG metrics instrumentation.
  • Design and implement robust, scalable backend architectures optimized for rapid iteration and growth experiments.
  • Identify bottlenecks and optimize system performance, scalability, and reliability.
  • Work closely with Product Managers, Frontend Developers, and Designers to align backend capabilities with PLG goals.
  • Ensure seamless integrations, secure APIs, and smooth data flows.
  • Oversee CI/CD pipelines, deployment processes, and system monitoring/recovery.
  • Continuously improve infrastructure to support growth and experimentation.
  • Stay current with backend technologies and PLG best practices and introduce frameworks, tools, and processes that improve developer velocity and user experience.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT, or equivalent.
  • 5+ years of backend development experience (overall 7-8 years).
  • 2+ years in a leadership or team lead role.
  • Proven track record of shipping scalable backend systems in SaaS or PLG contexts.
  • Strong expertise in Python and Ruby on Rails.
  • Solid experience with SQL & NoSQL databases (Postgres, Redis, Cassandra).
  • Knowledge of RESTful APIs, microservices architecture, and distributed systems.
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).
  • Experience with version control systems (Git).
  • Exposure to PLG initiatives or growth-oriented engineering work (nice to have).
  • Background in full-stack development (ReactJS) (nice to have).
  • Excellent problem-solving, organizational, and leadership abilities.
  • Strong collaboration skills to work effectively with Product, Frontend, and Growth teams.
  • Growth-oriented mindset with focus on experimentation, scalability, and impact.