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WazifaMEVerified
Senior Product Engineer - Backend
Qesm El Maadi, Cairo, Egypt
ONSITEfull-time9,000 – 14,000
About the role
Koinz is Saudi Arabia’s leading social food ordering experience the app that transforms everyday coffee and dining into a fun, rewarding, and shareable lifestyle.
With 2.7M+ signups, Koinz is more than a loyalty app it’s where Gen Z and young consumers discover brands, earn rewards, share experiences, and make food social.
Your mission is to build high-scale systems powering ordering, loyalty, and social experiences across thousands of merchants and millions of users.
As a Senior Product Engineer (Backend) who combines strong engineering skills with deep product thinking. Someone who cares about why we’re building, not just what we’re building. You’ll own features end-to-end from idea to production to post-release impact.
At Koinz, we don’t just build backend systems, we build products that users love.
What You’ll Do
Own features end-to-end: from problem definition → design → development → release → monitoring → iteration
Build and evolve scalable backend services and APIs powering core Koinz experiences
Translate product ideas into simple, scalable, and high-impact solutions
Design systems that balance performance, reliability, and speed of iteration
Continuously improve system performance (latency, throughput, cost efficiency)
Use data (events, dashboards, session replays) to validate decisions and guide iterations
Ensure production systems are reliable, observable, and easy to debug
Work closely with Product, Mobile, and Design to shape user experiences — not just implement them
Contribute to architectural decisions (microservices, integrations, system evolution)
Take ownership of post-release outcomes: iterate, improve, or sunset features based on impact
What we're looking for
- 5+ years of experience building backend systems in production environments
- Strong experience in at least one backend language (PHP, Node.js, Java, Go, or similar)
- Solid understanding of distributed systems and microservices architecture
- Strong product sense — you think in terms of user problems, not just technical tasks
- Experience designing APIs (REST/gRPC) and working with frontend/mobile teams
- Hands-on experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Familiarity with Docker/Kubernetes or similar tooling
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills in production environments
- Ability to make trade-offs between speed, scalability, and quality
Compensation
Base salary
9,000 – 14,000
monthly
Performance bonus
Discussed
at interview
Equity
Role-dependent
if applicable
The hiring process
STEP 01
Recruiter call
30 min · Within 5 days
STEP 02
Hiring manager
60 min · Following week
STEP 03
Working session
90 min · Take-home + review
STEP 04
Final + offer
2 hours · Loop with team
Average time to offer: ~21 days. Your application is timestamped at every step — see applications.
About the employer
WazifaME
Qesm El Maadi, Cairo, Egypt
