Backend Engineer

Korn Ferry; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 320,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Korn Ferry is seeking an experienced Backend Engineer in the UAE to help build a digital-first financial services platform. You will design scalable microservices, APIs, and cloud-native solutions powering customer channels and core banking integrations.

You will work with AI-assisted tooling, modern engineering practices, and a cloud-native stack, contributing to security, governance, and automated testing from day one.

Qualifications

• 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.

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.

Skills

Backend engineering

API design

Event-driven architectures

Cloud-native development

Security and governance

Tools

Kafka

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Docker

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Job description

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 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.