Tabby

Staff Engineer

Georgia full-time Senior Salary not listed
full-time Senior level Technology & IT Curated
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About the role

Tabby creates financial freedom in the way people shop, earn and save by reshaping their relationship with money. Over 25 million users choose Tabby to stay in control of their spending and make the most out of their money.

The company’s flagship offering allows shoppers to split their payments online and in-store with no interest or fees. Over 70,000 global brands and small businesses, including Amazon, Noon, IKEA, and SHEIN use Tabby to accelerate growth and gain loyal customers by offering easy and flexible payments online and in stores.

Tabby generates over $18 billion in annual transaction volume for its partner brands and is the highest-rated, most-reviewed, largest, and fastest-growing FinTech in the GCC region.

Tabby launched in 2019 and has since raised +$1 billion in equity and debt funding from global and regional investors, and is now valued at $6,5 billion.We’re looking for a Staff Engineer to work on high-impact projects in a high-growth environment, alongside a world-class remote engineering team spread across 20+ countries.

Key Responsibilities:

Shape the technical direction and roadmap of Core Backend, building shared services, libraries, and developer tools used by engineering teams across Tabby.

Identify common challenges across teams and turn them into reusable solutions that improve developer productivity, system reliability, and security.

Lead the design and evolution of shared backend capabilities, including event-driven communication, application-level encryption, and sensitive data protection.

Develop internal engineering tools such as our Service Catalog, API Registry, SLO platform, and AI-assisted development tools, making them useful and easy to adopt.

Drive complex initiatives from problem discovery and design through implementation, rollout, and production validation, coordinating work across engineers and teams.

Work closely with teams using our tools to understand their needs, support integrations and migrations, and use feedback to guide further improvements.

Stay hands-on with Go, validate performance and failure scenarios, and build observability and recovery mechanisms into systems that other teams depend on.

Raise the engineering bar through architecture reviews, clear technical decisions, mentoring, and documentation that enables others to own and extend shared systems.

What you’ll bring:

7+ years of backend engineering, including building and operating production systems at scale.

Strong Go experience and a track record of staying hands-on in senior technical roles.

Deep expertise in distributed, high-load systems. Our stack includes PostgreSQL, Redis, Kubernetes, GCP, GitLab and microservices.

Proven ownership of complex initiatives from design through production, including architecture and technology decisions with lasting impact.

A strong grasp of quality, security, observability and operational excellence.

Experience integrating third-party APIs and contributing to product development.

The ability to influence decisions across teams and explain technical topics clearly to non-technical stakeholders.

Experience mentoring engineers and raising the technical bar across a team or organization.

Strong English and a proactive, autonomous approach to ambiguous problems.

What we offer:

Full-time B2B contract

Fully remote setup

Up to 20% tax allowance

22 paid leave days annually

Stock options (ESOP) in a fast-scaling, pre-IPO company

Flexi benefits you can use for wellness, travel, or learning

Work alongside a high-performing, international engineering team in a global fintech unicorn

Relocation support is available to our hubs in Armenia, Georgia, Serbia, Portugal, and Spain, including flights, temporary accommodation and legal setup.

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Technology & IT API integration MySQL Remote Collaboration Writing Senior level full-time

Likely questions

  1. Tell us about work you have done that is close to the Staff Engineer role.
  2. How would you approach your first 30 days at Tabby?
  3. Which of API integration, MySQL and Remote Collaboration have you used recently, and what did it help you achieve?
  4. How have you led people, improved a process, or made a hard decision in a previous role?
  5. How do you handle busy days, changing priorities, or pressure at work?

Prepare before the call

  • A recent example that proves your experience with API integration, MySQL and Remote Collaboration.
  • One short story with a problem, your action, and the result.
  • Two examples that show the strengths listed on your CV.
  • A clear reason why this role and company interest you.
  • Your availability, preferred work style, and salary expectations.

Ask them

  • What would success look like in the first 90 days?
  • What are the main problems this hire should help solve?
  • How does the team give feedback and measure good work?
  • What does a normal working week look like for this role?
Practice line

I am interested in the Staff Engineer role because I can bring practical experience in API integration, MySQL and Remote Collaboration, learn the team quickly, and contribute to the outcomes Tabby needs from this hire.

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