Backend Engineer (AWS Serverless)

Job summary:

Mazeed is a UAE-based financial management platform offering a hybrid model of SaaS + Finance-as-a-Service (FaaS) to support SMEs with smart accounting, taxation, and CFO advisory tools. We’re building a modern, scalable, and automation-first product experience — powered by both software and expert services. We are growing our engineering team to support the delivery and scale of our new SaaS platform. 

Why This Role Matters 

As a Backend Engineer, you’ll be responsible for building and maintaining core backend services using AWS Serverless technologies. You’ll work on critical systems such as authentication, onboarding, billing, and internal tools — all designed to enable fast, reliable, and scalable operations. This is a hands-on role for someone who thrives in an agile team and has a strong foundation in building cloud-native, serverless backends. 

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement backend services using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, SQS, EventBridge, and Step Functions 

• Build APIs and backend workflows for core modules like subscription management, user lifecycle, and internal automation 

• Write clean, scalable, testable, and well-documented code 

• Optimize for performance, cost-efficiency, and reliability in a serverless environment 

• Collaborate with frontend engineers, product managers, and QA to ship high-quality features 

• Implement observability (CloudWatch, X-Ray, etc.) and ensure robust logging and error handling 

• Contribute to architectural decisions and improve CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code (IaC with CDK or Terraform)