We are recruiting for a late-stage payments company (2 Billion Dollar Unicorn) operating at scale across the Middle East. Millions of people use our product to pay, split purchases, and manage their money. This is a confidential search, so we share the company name in the first conversation. Three things worth knowing before you read further

One day, four conversations, a decision. No take-home assignment. No six-week process where you chase a recruiter for updates. You block out a day, you talk to four people, and you get an answer.

Genuinely remote within IST. Not hybrid. Not "remote-first with mandatory quarterly onsites." Our engineering team already works this way and the tooling and rituals were built for it, not retrofitted.

Remote, IST hours

What you will actually do

Design and own APIs that carry millions of transactions a day
Debug production incidents where the root cause is three services away from the symptom
Turn half-formed product ideas into shipped features, including pushing back when the idea is wrong
Make architectural calls,



not just implement someone else's
Write code that the person on call at 3am can reason about

What we are looking for
3+ years building and running backend services in production, in any modern language
Systems you scaled that held up, and at least one that did not, plus what you learned from it
Practical cloud experience (AWS or equivalent, Kubernetes, Docker)
Distributed systems in anger: Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar, including the failure modes
Clear written and spoken English. Our team spans several countries and most decisions happen in writing.

Practical but not required: frontend familiarity (JavaScript, Vue), early-stage startup experience, a payments or lending background.

Our stack, honestly

We hire for engineering judgement rather than syntax, and we have brought people across from Python, Node, C#, and Scala. That said, our core services are Java and Go, and you will be working in them. If you want to be told

📌 Engineering Manager (India)
🏢 Stealth Startup
📍 India