Senior Backend Engineer
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About This Role
Location: Onsite, Abu Dhabi
We are looking for a
Senior Backend Engineer
to join a new multi sector AI programme in Abu Dhabi.
This is a
backend-first, platform-focused role
.
The emphasis is on building the underlying systems that power AI applications rather than working directly on AI models.
You will design, build, and operate scalable services, APIs, event-driven systems, and data infrastructure that support production environments.
Core Responsibilities
- Design and build backend services, APIs, and platform components that support scalable systems
- Define service boundaries, API contracts, and inter-service communication patterns
- Build and operate
- event-driven architecture
- (Kafka, Service Bus, or equivalent)
- Design reliable
- asynchronous systems
- with strong schema management and consumer design
- Work with
- PostgreSQL at scale
- , caching, and distributed data systems
- Deploy and operate services using
- Kubernetes and containerisation
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code
- Implement strong
- observability practices
- (logging, tracing, metrics, SLOs)
Basic Qualifications
- 7+ years experience in backend or platform engineering
- Proven ownership of
- production-grade distributed systems
- Strong experience with
- event-driven systems and messaging infrastructure
- Proficiency in
Java AND Python OR Go
- Strong understanding of
- cloud infrastructure (Azure, AWS, or GCP)
- Hands-on experience with
- Kubernetes and containerised environments
- Strong experience with
- PostgreSQL at scale
- Solid understanding of distributed systems concepts (consistency, retries, idempotency, etc.)
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