Job Description
Job Description
About Our client Our client is the Middle East's leading on-demand grocery delivery platform — connecting millions of customers with supermarkets, dark stores, and specialty retailers across the UAE and beyond. Our backend powers a complex, real-time operation: inventory availability, order lifecycle, logistics coordination, and third-party integrations that have to work in concert, at scale, every day.
The Role
We are looking for a Lead Backend Engineer who measures their impact not by how much they personally write — but by how much gets built, reviewed, and shipped while they are thinking about the next architectural decision.
This is a pure IC role. No people management, no meetings for the sake of meetings. What you will have instead is deep ownership: of a Rails codebase evolving from a monolith into a well-decomposed system, of a suite of AI coding agents already in use at elGrocer that you will sharpen and extend, and of...