Description
Backend & Cloud Engineer (RaaS Platform)
Location: Lusail, Qatar
Department: Tech
🚀 Welcome to Your Next Adventure!
🛠 What You’ll Get Your Hands On:
- Design, develop, and maintain backend and cloud infrastructure powering Snoonu’s Robotics-as-a-Service (RaaS) platform, enabling real-time fleet monitoring, orchestration, and autonomous logistics operations.
- Build scalable backend services and APIs that integrate robots, drones, and human courier fleets under a unified orchestration layer.
- Develop real-time telemetry ingestion pipelines to collect, process, and store high-frequency sensor and fleet data (location, status, battery, system health, mission progress).
- Support edge–cloud integration by enabling low-latency communication between robots/drones and cloud services for mission planning, tracking, and control.
- Collaborate with AI and autonomy teams to integrate optimization engines, predictive routing models, and decision-making components into production services.
- Enable simulation and validation workflows by supporting digital twin environments, experiment logging, scenario replay, and benchmarking tools.
- Implement secure data access and governance practices including authentication, authorization, encryption, and role-based access control to protect operational and customer data.
- Ensure reliability and operational readiness through monitoring, alerting, logging, incident response support, and performance optimization across critical services.
- Support system integration activities and pilot deployments by providing rapid troubleshooting, debugging, and backend improvements during real-world testing.
- Document system architecture, API contracts, integration patterns, and operational procedures to support R&D reporting, maintainability, and long-term platform scalability.
🧙♂️ The Magic You Bring
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- 2–4 years of backend development experience, with strong hands-on Python/C# expertise.
- Strong ownership and accountability with the ability to work independently on complex backend systems.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional engineering teams (AI/ML, robotics, embedded, QA, operations).
- Excellent problem-solving skills, especially in debugging production-like issues and performance bottlenecks.
- Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly and document decisions, trade-offs, and system designs.
- Comfort working in fast-moving R&D environments where requirements evolve through experimentation and pilot feedback.
- High ownership and accountability for results, timelines, and engineering quality.
- Strong business context understanding, able to translate operational needs into technical solutions.
- Open to feedback and proactive in applying improvements suggested by senior engineers or tech leads.
Core Backend & Python
- Strong foundation in Python, including OOP principles, design patterns, and writing clean, maintainable code.
- Experience building backend services using frameworks such as FastAPI, Flask, or Django.
- Ability to design, develop, and maintain RESTful APIs with proper error handling and logging.
AWS & Cloud
- Experience using AWS services, such as Lambda, SQS/SNS, API Gateway, Step Functions, DynamoDB, RDS, S3, and CloudWatch.
- Experience designing event-driven and serverless architectures.
- Familiarity with IAM, environment configuration, and cloud security best practices.
RaaS Platforms focus
- Strong backend development experience, including designing APIs and building scalable services.
- Experience with modern backend frameworks and microservice architectures.
- Strong knowledge of databases (SQL and/or NoSQL), including data modeling and performance optimization.
- Experience with real-time data streaming / messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis streams, or similar).
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices (CI/CD pipelines, containerization, deployment automation).
- Experience with Kubernetes / Docker and cloud-native patterns is a strong advantage.
- Good understanding of system observability tools including logging, monitoring, tracing, and alerting.
- Experience with IoT systems, telemetry pipelines, robotics platforms, or edge devices is a strong plus.
- Knowledge of cybersecurity fundamentals and secure API design is an advantage.
Inside Snoonu’s Universe
Snoonu is Qatar’s homegrown Super App, reinventing daily life with blazing-fast delivery, shopping, and more – all in one place. Powered by tech, driven by a global team, and obsessed with making life easier.
The Dream We’re Chasing
To be the first Qatari Ultra App that propels the region and its community through innovation and technology. We have global ambitions where what we do surpasses norms and limitations every time.
The Quest We’re On
To radically transform how people live by leveraging technology to connect them with endless possibilities.
Our Everyday Superpowers
👥 Be Customer Obsessed: “Focus on the customer and all else will follow.”
💪 Act with Integrity: “We are honest, ethical, and trustworthy in everything we do.”
🧪 Be Curious and Creative: “We constantly innovate and create solutions to bring a lasting positive impact.”
🏅Lead by Example and Take Ownership: “Be the change you want to see and take ownership.”
🚀 Work Smart and Deliver Results: “You can do more by doing less, better, and faster.”
👨💼 It's All About People: “Be a team player; together we are stronger.”
Perks & Worklife Magic At Snoonu
🌐 Global Vibes – Collaborate with a worldwide crew.
🧠 Brain Boosters – Learning budgets, access to courses, and tools for your growth.
🚒 Builder’s Playground – Own your tasks, own your path! We’re big on autonomy.
🏝️ Flexible Time Off – We take recharging seriously. Generous leave and wellness policies.
🛠️ Agile Everything – Scrum isn’t a buzzword here. It’s how we roll, from product to ops.
Great Place to Work® Certified
We’re certified as a Great Place to Work®, a recognition that celebrates a culture we’ve built together where people come first, always. This certification reflects our commitment to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued, empowered, and inspired to do their best work.
Certified for Excellence
Our ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 45001:2018 certifications demonstrate our dedication to world-class quality and a safe, supportive workplace, reinforcing our promise to deliver exceptional service while prioritizing the wellbeing of our people.
Beyond the Code: Giving Back Matters
We don’t just build apps. We’re committed to doing business sustainably and giving back to the community that fuels us. From eco-conscious practices to CSR projects, we’re always finding ways to do better—and we invite you to be a part of that mission.
Diversity Isn’t Just a Buzzword
At Snoonu, fairness and inclusion are the foundation of everything we do. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity workplace that welcomes people from every walk of life. Be bold. Be you. Thrive here.
Let’s Build the Future Together
Apply now to join a team where your contributions spark a change and your voice is heard. Let’s make some magic together.
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