SDE— AI-Driven, Scalable E‑commerce Engineer

We’re building an ecosystem of digital products and services that power everyday life across the Middle East—fast, scalable, and deeply customer-centric. Our mission is to deliver to every door every day. We want to redefine what technology can do in this region, and we’re looking for a SDE 3 who can help us move even faster.

noon’s mission:
Every door, every day.

What you'll do:

Team noon has some of the fastest, smartest, and hardest-working people we've encountered. With a young, aggressive, and talented team, we're driving major missions forward.

As a Software Development Engineer - Level 3 (SDE3) you will be responsible for designing and implementing systems across one of our engineering teams. This is an open-ended role given our teams are in constant need of experienced engineers, so the final team will only be known at the time of clearing the interview process.

In this position, you will be owning specific, narrow segments of  and drive their development. You will closely collaborate with stakeholders directly impacted by those segments, mentor and train junior colleagues as well as contribute to the overall quality of our core tech stack.

Note:

this is an AI-enabled engineering position – we want candidates who apply to be well-versed with AI tooling for software development, understand how and when to use it and cognizant of trade-offs and where problems may hide. Noon is journeying into integrating AI into our standard software engineering lifecycle, and we’d like folks we hire to be catalysts of that transition.

• Own narrow segments of our marketplace, being able to both understand stakeholders’ requirements as well as well as the impact that those will have into our stack
• Develop clean and effective engineering solutions to our business problems
• Design fault-tolerant, highly available distributed systems
• Be able to translate requirements into bug-free working code
• Be a strong advocate for avoiding accidental complexity when designing processes & systems
• Mentor and lead more junior members of the engineering team

What you'll need -

• Familiar with our core stack (Python / FastAPI / Pydantic / Golang / MySQL)
• Versed with GCP-native databases such as Big Table / Spanner
• Very familiar with (and confident writing) SQL
• At least 3/6 years working experience
• Understand how to leverage AI to boost productivity, how to steer agents and when to do things by hand
• Experienced with distributed systems
• A self directed personality and ability to work independently
• Prior experience within the e-commerce industry

Who will excel -

• We’re looking for people with high standards, who understand that hard work matters.
• You need to be relentlessly resourceful and operate with a deep bias for action.
• We need people with the courage to be fiercely original.
• noon is not for everyone; readiness to adapt, pivot, and learn is essential.