Legend Holding Group Ltd

Full Stack Developer — Backend Heavy

On-siteDubai - United Arab Emirates (UAE)Posted last wk.

Fast Track available

About the role

Desired Candidate Profile

We are looking for a Backend-Heavy Full Stack Developer with 4+ years of experience building scalable, reliable, and production-grade applications.

The candidate should have strong backend engineering expertise in either Java Spring Boot or Node.js, along with hands-on experience in React-based frontend development and modern cloud-native infrastructure.

Mandatory Technical Skills

Backend — Primary Requirement

Strong expertise in one of the following:

Java Track

Java 8+
Spring Boot
Spring MVC
Spring Data JPA / Hibernate
REST APIs
Microservices
Maven/Gradle
JUnit / Mockito
OR

Node.js Track

Node.js
TypeScript / JavaScript
NestJS / Express.js
REST APIs
Microservices
Jest
Asynchronous programming

Databases

Strong SQL knowledge
PostgreSQL / MySQL
Database design
Query optimization
Indexing and transactions
MongoDB or other NoSQL databases is a plus.
Kafka & Distributed Systems
Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka
Producers and consumers
Consumer groups and partitioning
Event-driven architecture
Message processing and failure handling
Understanding of asynchronous and distributed systems

AWS — Mandatory

Hands-on experience with AWS services and cloud deployments.

Expected knowledge of services such as:

AWS EKS
EC2
RDS
S3
IAM
CloudWatch
ECR
VPC / networking fundamentals

Docker & & Kubernetes — Mandatory

Strong understanding of Docker
Creating and managing Docker images
Dockerfile optimization
Containerized application deployments
Kubernetes fundamentals
Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, Secrets
Understanding of pods, namespaces, health checks, and resource management
Experience deploying applications on AWS EKS is a strong requirement.

CI/CD — Mandatory

Strong hands-on experience with GitHub Actions.

Strong understanding of Docker
Creating and managing Docker images
Dockerfile optimization
Containerized application deployments
Kubernetes fundamentals
Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, Secrets
Understanding of pods, namespaces, health checks, and resource management
Experience deploying applications on AWS EKS is a strong requirement.

CI/CD — Mandatory

Strong hands-on experience with GitHub Actions.

Building CI/CD pipelines
Automated build and test workflows
Docker image build and push
Deployment automation
Environment-specific configurations
AWS integration
Basic CI/CD security practices

Frontend

Frontend experience is required but not the primary focus.

React.js / Next.js
TypeScript / JavaScript
REST API integration
Component-based development
Basic frontend debugging

Angular is not required.

Engineering Fundamentals

Strong understanding of:

Data Structures & Algorithms
Object-Oriented Programming
SOLID principles
Design Patterns
REST API design
Microservices architecture
Distributed systems
Database transactions and concurrency
Authentication & Authorization
System scalability and performance
Unit and integration testing
Logging, monitoring, and observability

Good to Have

AWS EKS production experience
Kubernetes troubleshooting
Helm
Redis
Kafka-based distributed systems
Terraform
API Gateway
Prometheus / Grafana
Datadog or similar observability tools
Experience designing systems from scratch
Production ownership of high-traffic services

Ideal Skill Distribution

Backend Engineering: 65–70% Cloud / DevOps: 15–20% Frontend: 10–15%

This is not a frontend-heavy Full Stack role. The candidate should be capable of independently designing and implementing backend services and understanding the infrastructure required to run them in production.

Preferred Candidate

A strong candidate should be able to take a requirement from:

Requirement → Database Design → API Design → Backend Implementation → Kafka/Event Processing → Frontend Integration → Docker → CI/CD → Kubernetes/EKS → Production Monitoring

and independently own the feature through to production.

Experience

4+ years of professional software development experience, with significant hands-on backend development experience in Java Spring Boot or Node.js.

Core Technology Stack