Senior Backend Engineer — Agentic SDLC / AI-Driven Development Lifecycle (AI-DLC)

Senior Backend Engineer — Agentic SDLC / AI-Driven Development Lifecycle (AI-DLC)Location: DubaiDuration: 6 monthsCore Backend (Non-Negotiable) • Java 17+ — records, sealed classes, virtual threads / Project Loom• Spring Boot 3.x — Spring Security, Spring Data JPA/JDBC, Spring WebFlux, Spring Cloud• Microservices architecture patterns: API Gateway, Circuit Breaker (Resilience4j), Saga, CQRS, Outbox• RESTful API design with OpenAPI 3.x specifications as source of truthQUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE 10+ years of professional hands-on backend software engineering experience in production environmentsDemonstrated, verifiable enterprise-scale Agentic SDLC / AI-DLC implementation experienceExperience in banking, fintech, or a similarly regulated, high-compliance domainAWS Certified Developer / Solutions Architect — a plusProven track record of delivering complex distributed systems with high availability and measurable performance outcomesNICE TO HAVE • Experience with open banking APIs, PSD2, or CBDC-related workloads• Knowledge of AML, KYC, or fraud detection system design• Contributions to open-source LLM tooling, MCP servers, or Agentic SDLC / AI-DLC frameworks• Familiarity with CQRS + Event Sourcing patterns• Experience with Flowable BPM/CMMN workflow automation in Spring Boot