Staff Backend Engineer (Unit Intercity)

Department: Ride-Hailing Cluster

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Almaty, Almaty Special District, Kazakhstan, Hybrid

Key Responsibilities

• Own the unit's backend as a whole - coherence, reliability, and evolution of all services, not just your team's.
• Validate and approve teams' technical decisions (ADRs/RFCs, API contracts); act as the final backend gate.
• Proactively propose platform-level solutions where teams see only a local fix; turn recurring incidents into systemic fixes.
• Audit the backend (tech debt, performance, reliability, security) and drive the improvement plan to production.
• Write production code in the most critical areas
• Take the hardest bugs and incidents; see post-mortem action items through to implementation.
• Mentor seniors and tech leads, set standards, and drive Spec-First and CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md quality.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Designing distributed high-load systems - microservices, event-driven (Kafka), API design; strong systems thinking and coupling/cohesion judgment; ADRs and trade-off analysis.
• Expert in at least one production language Go; databases (SQL/NoSQL), data modeling, caching (Redis), concurrency under load.
• Observability (Prometheus/Grafana), SRE practices, fault tolerance, deployment strategies (canary, feature flags).
•  OWASP, authn/authz; antifraud as a backend problem - rate limiting, attestation, request signing, mTLS, geo-spoofing protection.
• Latency, local regulation, data privacy (GDPR/LGPD).
• Hands-on AI-assisted development (Claude Code) and a Spec-First mindset.

Why join us

• Help us challenge injustice by creating fair choices for millions of people across 48 countries.
• Develop your professional skills with access to mentoring, career consulting, and learning programs.
• Collaborate with teams around the world and gain international experience through our Global Talent Exchange Program.
• Engage in company-wide challenges, awards, sports activities, employee-led social impact and volunteering projects.
• Work alongside people who take initiative, speak openly, and challenge themselves to grow.
• Improve your language skills through co-financed courses and internal speaking clubs.