Senior Backend Software Engineer (AI-assisted Development)

About the role

Aspire Software is hiring a Senior Backend Software Engineer in Lebanon. The engineer designs, builds and maintains the server-side systems behind the company's products and leads a small team of developers. The role owns APIs, services and data layers, mentors intermediate engineers and guides technical decisions in a fast-paced environment, with modern AI-assisted development tools encouraged.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain backend services, APIs and databases
• Deliver product features on tight schedules and help drive the product roadmap
• Lead and mentor a small team of intermediate developers, including code reviews
• Set technical direction and uphold code quality, architecture and best practices
• Write clean, testable, well-documented code
• Optimize applications for performance, scalability and reliability
• Work with frontend engineers, product and design teams

Required profile

• Strong programming skills in one or more backend languages (e.g. Python, Go, Java, Node.js)
• Experience designing and building RESTful or GraphQL APIs
• Solid understanding of SQL and/or NoSQL databases and data modeling
• Proven ability to deliver quality work under tight deadlines
• Prior experience mentoring or leading developers
• Familiarity with version control, testing and CI/CD practices
• Comfortable using AI-assisted tools such as GitHub Copilot and Claude

Nice to have

• Cloud platform experience (AWS, GCP or Azure)
• Containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)