Senior Backend Architect (Real Time Systems)
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Job Summary
We are recruiting a Senior Backend Architect (Real-Time Systems) for one of our clients a well-known information technology company based in Muscat Oman.
About Our Client:
Our client is a leading information technology company based in Muscat Oman known for delivering innovative and reliable technology solutions across various industries. With a strong focus on quality efficiency and customer satisfaction the company specializes in developing customized software digital transformation solutions and scalable platforms tailored to meet evolving business needs.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and own the end-to-end architecture for a real-time event-driven backend serving
- Define data models and streaming topologies
- Create blueprints for stateful stream processing
- Architect for deterministic low latency (<50ms p99) by optimizing garbage collection lock-free data structures and CPU caching behavior
- Design data partitioning and replication strategies for both hot and warm storage
- Set coding standards for non-blocking I/O
- Lead architectural reviews to ensure real-time SLAs are met under peak load
- Create runbooks for real-time debugging (async stack traces latency flame graphs)
Requirements
- 8 years of backend development with 3 years specifically in real-time or low-latency systems
- Strong hands-on backend architecture and system design experience
- Proven experience building or leading high-concurrency low-latency systems
- Strong understanding of concurrency race conditions atomic operations consistency idempotency and fault tolerance
- Experience with real-time or event-driven systems
- Experience designing systems where response time under load is critical
- Strong backend development experience in Golang and Python
- Experience with caching in-memory data stores relational databases APIs queues and event-driven architecture
- Experience with WebSocket or similar real-time communication mechanisms
- Experience with cloud infrastructure containers orchestration and production-grade backend deployment
- Ability to stay hands-on technically while also leading engineers and making architectural decisions
- Experience measuring and optimizing latency under load
- Familiarity with p95/p99 latency load testing performance tuning and scaling
- Experience with production monitoring bottleneck analysis and incident handling
- Experience in distributed systems where correctness and speed both matter
- Betting/Sportsbook
- Gaming Backend
- Trading/Fintech Transaction Systems
- Live Scoring
- Messaging/Chat Systems
- Ride dispatch/Allocation Systems
- Other Real-time Transaction-heavy platforms
We are specifically looking for a candidate who has worked on systems where many users or events happen at the same time and the backend must process them correctly consistently and quickly under load.
Benefits
- Competitive Salary
- Employee Benefits as per the Oman Labour Law
Required Skills:
8 years of backend development with 3 years specifically in real-time or low-latency systems Strong hands-on backend architecture and system design experience Proven experience building or leading high-concurrency low-latency systems Strong understanding of concurrency race conditions atomic operations consistency idempotency and fault tolerance Experience with real-time or event-driven systems Experience designing systems where response time under load is critical Strong backend development experience in Golang and Python Experience with caching in-memory data stores relational databases APIs queues and event-driven architecture Experience with WebSocket or similar real-time communication mechanisms Experience with cloud infrastructure containers orchestration and production-grade backend deployment Ability to stay hands-on technically while also leading engineers and making architectural decisions Strongly Preferred: Experience measuring and optimizing latency under load Familiarity with p95/p99 latency load testing performance tuning and scaling Experience with production monitoring bottleneck analysis and incident handling Experience in distributed systems where correctness and speed both matter Preferred Backgrounds: Candidates with experience in the following types of platforms will be preferred: Betting/Sportsbook Gaming Backend Trading/Fintech Transaction Systems Live Scoring Messaging/Chat Systems Ride dispatch/Allocation Systems Other Real-time Transaction-heavy platforms Note: We are specifically looking for a candidate who has worked on systems where many users or events happen at the same time and the backend must process them correctly consistently and quickly under load.
