Senior Backend Engineer

Buying a home should be one of life's most exciting moments. Instead, for millions across the Middle East, it's become a maze of opaque pricing, endless paperwork, and frustrating delays. At Holo, we're changing that story. We're bringing the UAE housing market into the 21st century, making it fast, transparent, and impartial. Our technology connects home buyers to 500+ mortgage products across all UAE banks, finding them the best deal in minutes instead of weeks.

At Holo, we’re on a mission to simplify home ownership through technology, expert guidance, and transparency. We operate across three core entities:

• Holo Mortgage – providing digital mortgage solutions tailored to each client
• Holo Concierge – our concierge-style service that partners with clients and real estate agents to help approved buyers find their dream home.
• Holo KSA – expanding our footprint and innovation into the Saudi market With over 25 years of expertise and 24,000+ happy homeowners, we’ve mastered the art of simplifying the home buying journey. We’re building a smarter, faster, and more accessible way to own a home.

As a Senior Backend Engineer at Holo, you'll build the infrastructure that makes home ownership accessible to thousands of families. Every system you architect, every API you design, and every optimization you implement will directly accelerate someone's path to their dream home.

• Build systems that aggregate and normalize data from dozens of banks, giving customers transparency into their options
• Design backend architecture that processes mortgage comparisons in seconds instead of the industry standard of days or weeks, fundamentally changing customer expectations.
• Create systems that handle sensitive financial data with precision, because a single error could cost a family thousands of dirhams or delay their home purchase by months.
• Build platforms that can serve the entire UAE market, processing thousands of mortgage applications simultaneously while maintaining speed and reliability.
• Your technical decisions will set the foundation for product innovation, enabling our mortgage advisors to serve customers better and our product team to rapidly test and deploy new features that address real market needs.

You'll work directly with product managers, mortgage experts, and QA engineers to translate complex financial requirements into elegant technical solutions. This role requires someone who sees the connection between code and customer outcomes. When you optimize a database query, you're not just improving latency, you're helping a young couple get their offer accepted faster. When you design a new feature, you're considering both technical excellence and the real financial stakes for families navigating their biggest purchase.

In your first 6 months, you'll have:

• Shipped features that directly improved our mortgage comparison speed or accuracy, measurably impacting customer satisfaction
• Reduced system bottlenecks that were limiting our ability to serve more customers or integrate with additional bank partners
• Elevated our engineering practices through code reviews, documentation, or technical discussions that made the team more effective

The engineers who succeed at Holo connect deeply with our mission. You care that your work has real-world consequences. You're energized by the challenge of taking a traditionally opaque, slow industry and making it transparent and instant. You produce work that you take pride in and actively identify/vocalize sub-optimal experiences. You push back on 'average'.

• Quality: You practice test-driven development, participate meaningfully in code reviews, and believe that robust, well-architected systems are what enable teams to move fast sustainably.
• Collaboration skills: You work effectively in a cross-functional environment. You communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical colleagues. You're comfortable being wrong and changing course when presented with better information.
• Health insurance and other benefits
• 25 days annual leave plus National Holidays
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave
• Opportunities for career growth and development in a dynamic environment
• A supportive and collaborative team environment.
• Half day Fridays, finishing at 1pm - giving you a well deserved early start to the weekend!

This is a rare opportunity to work on technology that genuinely matters. You'll be part of a small, focused team where your contributions directly shape both the product and the company culture. You'll see the impact of your work in customer testimonials and growth metrics. If the idea of building systems that help families achieve one of life's biggest milestones excites you, if you want your engineering work to have a clear, positive impact on people's lives we’d love to talk.