Backend Engineer

About noon

We’re building an ecosystem of digital products and services that power everyday life across the Middle East—fast, scalable, and deeply customer-centric. Our mission is to deliver to every door every day. We want to redefine what technology can do in this region, and we’re looking for a Backend Engineer, who can help us move even faster.

Noon’s fastest hyper-local delivery platform, Noon Minutes, offers a localized assortment of FMCG & grocery products with delivery within 15-minutes. Currently live across the UAE and Saudi

Arabia, offering thousands of products to customers in record time.

noon’s mission: Every door, every day.

What you'll do:

• Develop clean and effective engineering solutions for complex supply chain and logistics problems.
• Design fault-tolerant, highly available distributed systems.
• Translate business requirements into bug-free, production-ready code.
• Mentor and lead more junior members of the engineering team.
• Develop APIs and services that handle real-time decisioning and high concurrency.
• Work with event-driven and asynchronous systems.
• Integrate with external partners and APIs.

What you'll need:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 5 years of relevant backend engineering experience.
• Hands-on experience with our core stack (Python, FastAPI, Pydantic, MySQL).
• Familiarity with GCP-native data solutions (Bigtable, Spanner, BigQuery).
• Strong SQL skills with confidence in writing and optimizing queries.
• Proven experience building and working with distributed systems.
• Ability to effectively leverage AI tools to enhance coding productivity and know when to automate vs. handle tasks manually.

Who will excel?

• We’re looking for people with high standards, who understand that hard work matters.
• You need to be relentlessly resourceful and operate with a deep bias for action.
• We need people with the courage to be fiercely original.
• noon is not for everyone; readiness to adapt, pivot, and learn is essential.