Backend Engineer

About us:

Soar is a global fintech startup that specializes in financing and investment. Currently headquartered in Saudi Arabia, Soar is growing throughout the region with a mission to help people achieve their financial goals with innovative financial and property investment solutions and tools through its multi-purpose platform, designed to offer a simple and seamless user experience.

Role Summary:

We are looking for a Backend Engineer who enjoys building clean, reliable APIs and stable integrations. This role is focused on execution, quality, and predictability — writing backend code that works correctly, is easy to maintain, and integrates smoothly with other systems. You will work as part of a backend engineering team responsible for developing internal services and integrating with external platforms.

Key responsibilities:

• Building and maintaining backend APIs
• Developing services that support financial and operational workflows
• Integrating with third-party systems via REST APIs
• Supporting notification and background processing services
• Improving reliability, observability, and test coverage of backend services

Target Persona:

• Execution-focused and disciplined
• Writes clear, maintainable backend code
• Thinks about edge cases and failure scenarios
• Values testing and automation
• Comfortable working within defined architectures and standards

Qualifications & Skills:

Backend Language

• 4+ years of experience with Node.js
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript and Javascript

API Design

• Strong understanding of RESTful API design
• Hands-on experience with: OpenAPI / Swagger
• Ability to design APIs that are: clear, consistent, and well-documented

Database

• Solid experience with MongoDB

Comfortable with:

• CRUD operations
• Aggregation pipelines
• Understands schema design and performance considerations

Testing & Quality

• Strong unit testing mindset
• Experience using Jest and/or Mocha
• Writes code that: passes automated tests, behaves consistently in CI, and requires minimal rework

Integration Experience

• Experience integrating with third-party REST APIs
• Error handling, retries, timeouts, basic idempotency concepts

Nice-to-Have Skills:

• Experience with Redis for caching
• Basic knowledge of Docker or containerized environments
• Familiarity with event-driven systems

Key skills/competency:

• Node.js
• TypeScript
• RESTful API Design
• MongoDB
• Unit Testing
• System Integration
• Financial Workflows
• Microservices
• Observability
• Scalability