The Role
Work as a full-time backend engineering intern on production Go services: develop and maintain APIs, interact with databases and in-memory stores, fix bugs, write tests, participate in design and code reviews, and contribute to distributed system components under senior mentorship.
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About the company
This internship is not educational by default. It is an engineering role with real responsibility.
Context
The internship is designed for strong early-career engineers. Interns are embedded into real backend teams, work on production code, and are expected to meet engineering standards from day one.
Key Responsibilities
What you will do
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
Required
Format
This internship is intentionally demanding and designed for candidates aiming for fast professional growth in backend engineering.
About
Tabby creates financial freedom in the way people shop, earn and save, by reshaping their relationship with money.The company’s flagship offering allows shoppers to split their payments online and in-store with no interest or fees. Over 32,000 global brands and small businesses, including Amazon, Noon, IKEA and Shein use Tabby to accelerate growth and gain loyal customers by offering easy and flexible payments online and in stores.Tabby has generated over $7 billion in transaction volume for its partner brands and has the highest rated, most reviewed, largest and fastest growing app of any fintech in the GCC region.Tabby launched operations in 2020 and has raised +$1 billion in equity and debt funding from global and regional investors.
Tabby builds financial products used by millions of users across the GCC. We work on high-load, security-critical backend systems with strict regulatory requirements.
This internship is not educational by default. It is an engineering role with real responsibility.
Backend engineers at Tabby work on the systems behind core financial products. This includes distributed services, APIs, data storage, integrations with external providers, and internal platforms supporting multiple product teams.
The internship is designed for strong early-career engineers. Interns are embedded into real backend teams, work on production code, and are expected to meet engineering standards from day one.
Key Responsibilities
What you will do
This is not a helper role. Interns work on real production tasks under senior review.
- Develop and maintain backend services using Go
- Work with relational and in-memory data stores
- Contribute to API development and service-to-service integrations
- Participate in designing and evolving backend components
- Read and understand existing system architecture and data flows
- Write code with a focus on correctness, reliability, and maintainability
- Participate in code reviews and technical discussions
- Fix real bugs and address technical debt in production systems
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
Required
- Strong fundamentals in computer science and backend development
- Solid programming skills in Go or a strong base in another backend language with readiness to work in Go
- Understanding of HTTP, APIs, and basic distributed system concepts
- Understanding of how backend services interact with databases and other services
- Ability to read, understand, and modify existing codebases
- Experience with Git and standard development workflows
- Open to constructive feedback
- English sufficient for documentation and team communication
- Hands-on experience with Go
- Experience with SQL databases (PostgreSQL or similar)
- Basic understanding of concurrency and parallelism
- Familiarity with containers and basic infrastructure concepts
- Experience with cloud platforms or Kubernetes
- Experience writing tests for backend services
- Interest in scalable and distributed backend systems
- Expert-level knowledge of Go or other backend languages
- Prior professional backend or distributed systems experience
- Mastery of all listed tools, frameworks, or infrastructure
- Deep knowledge of database internals, networking, or distributed systems theory
- Saudi nationals only
- Self-funded internship by Tabby
- We welcome both current students and fresh grads
- We expect a full-time level of engagement throughout the internship. The program is not part-time: interns should be ready to contribute at a full working-day pace. We understand that students may occasionally need flexibility for classes or exams, which can be aligned with the mentor in advance, but overall performance, ownership, and context involvement are expected at a full-time level.
Format
- Paid internship
- Full integration into an engineering team
- Distributed engineering team across multiple countries
- Open to Saudi nationals (Saudi passport required); location flexible — candidates may be based outside KSA
- Office-first in Riyadh where possible
- Clear path to a junior or middle role based on performance
This internship is intentionally demanding and designed for candidates aiming for fast professional growth in backend engineering.
About
Tabby creates financial freedom in the way people shop, earn and save, by reshaping their relationship with money.The company’s flagship offering allows shoppers to split their payments online and in-store with no interest or fees. Over 32,000 global brands and small businesses, including Amazon, Noon, IKEA and Shein use Tabby to accelerate growth and gain loyal customers by offering easy and flexible payments online and in stores.Tabby has generated over $7 billion in transaction volume for its partner brands and has the highest rated, most reviewed, largest and fastest growing app of any fintech in the GCC region.Tabby launched operations in 2020 and has raised +$1 billion in equity and debt funding from global and regional investors.
Skills Required
- Strong fundamentals in computer science and backend development
- Solid programming skills in Go or strong base in another backend language with readiness to work in Go
- Understanding of HTTP, APIs, and basic distributed system concepts
- Understanding of how backend services interact with databases and other services
- Ability to read, understand, and modify existing codebases
- Experience with Git and standard development workflows
- English sufficient for documentation and team communication
- Open to constructive feedback
- Saudi national (Saudi passport required)
- Full-time level of engagement for the internship
- Hands-on experience with Go
- Experience with SQL databases (PostgreSQL or similar)
- Basic understanding of concurrency and parallelism
- Familiarity with containers and basic infrastructure concepts
- Experience with cloud platforms or Kubernetes
- Experience writing tests for backend services
- Interest in scalable and distributed backend systems
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The Company
What We Do
Tabby is a financial technology company on a mission to create financial freedom by reshaping people's relationship with money through buy now, pay later services, allowing consumers to split purchases into interest-free payments.
