Backend Developer

Company: SAQAYALocation: Egypt (Remote/Hybrid)🚀 About SAQAYASAQAYA is a fast-growing, global tech company with operations in the UK, Spain, and Egypt. We specialize in connecting top-tier engineering talent with world-class UK clients, delivering state-of-the-art solutions in the shipping and data analytics industry.Our team thrives on innovation, collaboration, and the pursuit of technical excellence. If you're passionate about quality, eager to make a tangible impact, and ready to work with a forward-thinking team, you’ll feel right at home here.💻 Backend Developer (TypeScript and Node.js)We’re looking for a Backend Developer to help expand our core platform, support the full product catalogue, and build new backend services for the domain team.You’ll work on core backend functionality, AI-powered services, asynchronous processing and production data infrastructure, contributing to a platform designed to scale reliably.🛠️ What you’ll doImplement template contracts and core generation services.Build and ship a complete audio pipeline for text-to-speech assets.Design and manage asynchronous workloads, queues and background jobs.Own PostgreSQL data models, ensuring they are scalable, reliable and well structured.Handle production database migrations safely and efficiently.Integrate and maintain LLM-powered backend services, focusing on reliability and structured data.Collaborate closely with the domain team and other engineers to turn product requirements into robust technical solutions.Apply design thinking principles to solve problems pragmatically and build maintainable systems.🎯 What we’re looking for4+ years of backend development experience.Strong hands-on experience with TypeScript and Node.js.Experience with Python and FastAPI is a strong plus.Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL and relational data modelling, including experience with JSONB.Proven experience integrating LLM APIs, including schema validation and token usage/cost logging.Solid understanding of asynchronous processing, queues and idempotent jobs.Experience working with AWS cloud infrastructure.Strong problem-solving skills and a pragmatic approach to software design.Good communication and collaboration skills.🌟 Nice to haveExperience working with eLearning platforms.Experience building AI-powered products or content generation systems.Experience working with text-to-speech or audio processing pipelines.If you enjoy building scalable backend systems, working with modern AI technologies and solving complex engineering problems, we’d love to hear from you.🚀Why Join Saqaya?We're building more than another software services company.We're building an AI-native product engineering business with global ambitions — combining strong engineering capabilities, an international customer base and an ambitious growth strategy.If you're the kind of salesperson who wants to build something rather than inherit it, this could be your opportunity.If you know how to turn cold accounts into conversations, conversations into opportunities, and opportunities into revenue — we'd love to hear from you.Apply now and let's talk.