Senior Backend Architect (Real Time Systems)

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)
  

• 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.

• Competitive Salary
• Employee Benefits as per the Oman Labour Law