Senior Backend Engineer - Money Movements Squad

About the role

Thndr is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join its Money Movements Squad. You will own the services that move money in and out of the platform across Egypt and the UAE, ensuring every transaction lands correctly and on time.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate deposit, withdrawal, settlement and reconciliation services.
• Maintain integrations with banks, payment gateways, payment providers and asset managers, handling timeouts, partial failures and retries.
• Ensure end‑to‑end correctness and reliability, with strong observability, on‑call rotation and safe failure mechanisms.
• Partner with finance and operations teams to extend the platform to new markets such as Saudi Arabia.

Required profile

• Proven experience designing, shipping and operating reliable backend systems at scale.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and how to keep them correct under load and failure.
• Comfort owning services from design through production and on‑call support.
• Ability to work on critical, money‑moving systems where uptime and accuracy are non‑negotiable.

Required skills

• Python
• C# / .NET Core
• PostgreSQL
• SQL Server
• RabbitMQ
• Redis
• TigerBeetle (financial ledger database)