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Thndr

Senior Backend Engineer – Experience Squad

Thndr

. Own parts of Thndr’s domains end to end, including project leadership, technical direction, and service health .

Posted 10/22/2026full-timeCairo • EgyptSeniorWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in leading cross-squad projects and owning systems end to end, with a strong focus on scalable system design and regulatory compliance. Proficient in collaborating with diverse teams to drive product impact and operational efficiency.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Distributed Systems ExperienceProject Management SkillsPython ProficiencyKubernetes FamiliarityFintech Experience

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Hard Skills
System DesignScalability UnderstandingIdempotencyRetriesFallback MechanismsObservabilitySLO MeasurementStatus CommunicationOn-Call OwnershipBehavior Under Slow Dependencies
Soft Skills
LeadershipCommunicationCollaborationImpact-Driven ApproachProblem-Solving
Tools & Technologies
FastAPIPostgreSQLRabbitMQRedis
Industry Keywords
FintechRegulatory ComplianceUser Issue ResolutionAccount OpeningCross-Squad Projects

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
Distributed SystemsKubernetesPostgresPythonRabbitMQRedis

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Own parts of Thndr’s domains end to end, including project leadership, technical direction, and service health
  • Lead cross-squad projects by breaking down ambiguous product requirements, sequencing work, coordinating contributors, removing blockers, and shipping
  • Design scalable systems with idempotency, retries, sensible fallbacks, and contained failure modes
  • Promote observability, small independently shippable pull requests, and measurable SLOs for critical flows
  • Collaborate closely with product, design, and data teams on what to build and why
  • Partner with operations, CX, and compliance teams to support account opening, user issue resolution, and regulatory compliance
  • Help expand domains into new markets beyond Egypt, the UAE, and the US

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Experience with distributed systems
  • Understanding of systems that scale and behavior under slow dependencies, backed-up queues, and mid-flight deployments
  • Product-minded and impact-driven approach
  • Project management and leadership skills, including scoping, sequencing, status communication, and bringing engineers along
  • Confidence owning systems end to end from design through production and on-call
  • Familiarity with, or ability to quickly learn, Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Redis, and Kubernetes
  • Fintech experience appreciated
  • Strong communication across engineering, product, operations, and compliance teams

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Hybrid work arrangement
  • Opportunity to work on Savings, Thndr Gold, Thndr Card, real estate, and investment products
  • Opportunity to work with product, design, data, operations, CX, compliance, finance, and back office teams
  • Professional ownership of domains, technical direction, service health, and on-call responsibilities