Senior Backend Engineer

About Rahal

Rahal is the travel mini-app inside Iraq’s Super Qi ecosystem, a Rocketship redefining how millions of travelers search, book, and manage journeys across flights, hotels, and digital services.
We make travel simple, safe, and accessible to everyone, everywhere.
Behind every great traveler experience lies a powerful hotel inventory and this is where you come in. 🚀
We’re building a new generation of travel; transparent, tech-first, and truly customer-obsessed. 

About the Role

Rahal is looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer who will play a key role in designing and implementing advanced solutions to improve our Travel platform, enhancing customer satisfaction and ensuring smooth operational processes.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement reusable, clean, tested, efficient, secure, maintainable, and well-documented solutions.
• Assist partners in their integration process with our published APIs.
• Document findings, actions, and plans thoroughly, by setting up the foundations for a solid reporting framework and a communication standard.
• Provide the technical feasibility of implementing product requirements and offer valuable input to the product team.
• Translate product requirements into SRS and technical plan.
• Proactively identify technical debt and propose mitigation strategies.
• Maintaining and developing your knowledge about software development, and supporting/mentoring other team-members, sharing guidance to help them achieve career growth.
• Conduct code reviews for peers to enhance code quality and ensure adherence to high standards.
• Understanding the business side of the project and having the ability to lead in-depth technical and product discussions.
• Bring new tools and invitations that can boost the startup productivity.

Requirements

• 5+ Years of experience in Software Engineering or adjacent fields.
• 3+ Years of experience working fully remotely with a track record of self-management and accountability.
• Hands-on experience with JavaScript/typescript and/or NodeJS/NestJs.
• In-depth understanding of web application architecture and design principles behind the scalable applications.
• Solid understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Agile methodologies.
• Experience in designing and optimizing databases, with skills in query optimization, scaling, data modeling.

Advanced knowledge of Docker and AWS.

Personality Traits

• Continuous Improver: You’re always refining, optimizing, and pushing your code to the next level.
• Refinement Addict: You love fine-tuning systems until they’re elegant, efficient, and rock-solid.
• Relentless Optimizer: You constantly look for ways to make things faster, cleaner, and smarter.
• Progress-Driven: You believe great engineering comes from continuous learning and small, steady improvements.
• Evolver: You’re never static; you iterate, adapt, and grow with every sprint.

Why Rahal

🌍 Be part of Iraq’s fastest-growing travel platform inside the SuperQi ecosystem.
🚀 Work in a high-growth, entrepreneurial environment where ownership, speed, and creativity truly matter.
🤝 Collaborate with passionate builders shaping the future of digital travel in the Middle East.
💡 Solve real traveler problems at scale from seamless flight booking to next-gen experiences.
🌴 Play a central role in Rahal’s regional expansion across the GCC.