Backend Engineer

We're excited to be partnering with a leading institution in the UAE that is building a digital-first, AI-enabled financial services organization from the ground up. This is a unique opportunity to join at an early stage and help shape the technology, data, and platform foundations of a business with significant institutional backing and long-term ambition. If you're passionate about backend engineering, scalable architectures, and building cloud-native services, we'd love to hear from you. As a Backend Engineer, you'll play a key role in building the bank's service layer, developing microservices, APIs, event-driven solutions, and serving-layer components that power customer channels, AI agents, and core banking integrations. You'll work with modern engineering practices, AI-assisted development tools, and cloud-native technologies from day one. Responsibilities• Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable microservices and APIs using modern backend engineering practices. • Build and maintain integrations and anti-corruption layers around core banking, payments, and treasury platforms. • Develop event-driven services using streaming platforms such as Kafka and related technologies. • Build serving-layer components, projections, read models, and caching solutions to support high-volume customer and AI-driven interactions. • Implement secure, scalable, and agent-safe APIs with appropriate controls, audit logging, and governance. • Contribute to automated testing, code reviews, observability, documentation, and CI/CD best practices. Requirements• 6+ years of hands-on backend engineering experience, ideally within banking, fintech, or another regulated environment. • Experience building and operating microservices and APIs in production environments. • Strong experience with event-driven architectures, streaming platforms, and scalable backend systems. • Experience with modern backend technologies, cloud-native platforms, containers, and Kubernetes. • Familiarity with CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and secure software development practices. • Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools and modern software delivery practices is highly desirable. Ready to join us? Apply today and take the next step in your career.