Posted 3 months ago

Backend Engineer

Full time
Abu Dhabi, AE
Middle
Salary Range: To be discussed
Full Job Description
Summary
Key technical role in optimizing next-gen analytics solutions, UAE-based company driving digital transformation. Design business software, ensure standards, and enhance user experience. 4+ years in software engineering required.
Description

The opportunity:
You get to play a key technical role in sustaining and optimizing the infrastructure that develops and delivers cutting edge, next-gen analytics solutions. Our Client is UAE's leading Analytics-driven, Cloud first, AI-enabled company with a deep focus on driving digital transformation in the MENACA region to power the next generation of cities, businesses, and industries. When it comes to challenges faced by organizations in the MENACA regions, they have in-depth knowledge and expertise. They enable public and private sector stakeholders to make analytics-driven, intelligent decisions.

Its solutions help steer digital transformation and simplify its customers' challenges across various industries, including digital governments, national security, national cloud, healthcare, financial sectors, and infrastructure. Founded in 2020, the company is headquartered in Abu Dhabi, UAE. They have developed transformative products/solutions which enable its customers to gain a stark competitive advantage by integrating AI, deep Analytics and ML in their digital transformation. The team of over +190 staff includes domain specialists, operations experts, data scientists, solution architects, software developers, engineers and data analysts from different countries all committed to delivering impact.

Responsibilities:
Key responsibilities Reporting to the Lead Backend Engineer, you will design business specific software components and modules using appropriate modelling techniques in line with agreed software design standards, patterns, and methodology.

Functional:
Create and communicate multiple design views to identify and balance the concerns of all stakeholders of software design and allow for both functional & non-functional requirements. Model or simulate the behavior of proposed software to enable approval by stakeholders and facilitate effective construction of the software. Design, code, verify, test, document, amend and re-factor complex programs/scripts and integration software services. Define and manage scoping, requirement definition and prioritization activities for small-scale changes and assist with more complex change initiatives. Follow agreed standards and apply appropriate techniques to elicit and document detailed requirements. Contribute to the appropriate selection of a software development approachpredictive (plan-driven) or adaptive (iterative/agile). Design test cases and test scripts mapping back to pre-determined criteria, clearly recording and reporting outcomes. Develop and maintain specialist knowledge of database and data warehouse concepts, design principles, architecture, software and facilities. Develop optimal solutions to enhance user experience, optimizing for maximum speed, scalability and technical feasibility. Participate in overall architecture discussion meetings to gain a detailed understanding of the complete architecture of a product and its functionalities. Build reusable code and libraries for future use.

Skills and attributes for success:
The yardsticks of your performance would include cost savings achieved, reduction in productivity loss, number of processes optimized, number of defect-free tasks, adherence to policies, procedures & quality standards, and customer NPS.

Qualifications:
To qualify, you must have:

Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering or related field.
Minimum 4 years of experience in software engineering with strong computer science fundamentals.
At least 3 years of experience in Agile development methodologies in an AI service organization or analytics industry.
Expert at one of the backend technologies like java/nodejs/python/go.
Good at using the java spring frameworks to build stable Restful APIs.
Experienced on building security layers on top of the Restful APIs.
Ability to create and build docker images for a application, have the capability to manage the containers in a docker or kubernetes environments.
Experience in databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL etc.

Ideally, you'll also need:
In-depth market and domain knowledge.
A passion for constant improvement.
An innovative and creative approach to problem-solving.

What we look for:
If you are a performance-driven, inquisitive mind with the agility to adapt to ambiguity, you will fit right in. You should be eager to explore opportunities to build meaningful collaborations with stakeholders and aspire to create unique customer-centric solutions. Bias for action and a passion to conquer new frontiers in the Big Data Analytics space is at the heart of the community.

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