Backend Engineer - AI-Powered Cloud & Microservices

Maseera; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Core42 is seeking an innovative Backend Engineer to design, build and test backend services, APIs and data processing pipelines. You will contribute to architecture discussions, optimise performance and ensure scalable, cost-efficient solutions aligned with regulatory needs across global deployments.

You will model software behavior, write clean code, and collaborate with teams to deliver robust services using Java, Spring Boot and Microservices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.
• At least 2 years of experience in Java Spring Boot and microservices development.
• Proficiency in working with message queues such as AMQ, RabbitMQ or Kafka.
• Proven experience in developing RESTful APIs.
• Proficiency in understanding data, entity relationships, structured and unstructured data, and SQL and NoSQL databases; familiarity with Elasticsearch is preferred.
• Practical experience in multithreading and concurrency programming.
• Familiarity with Maven, UNIX/Linux and shell scripting.
• Proficient use of Git.

Responsibilities

• Create and communicate multiple design views to balance stakeholders’ concerns.
• Model or simulate the behaviour of proposed software for approval by stakeholders.
• Write, test, document, amend and refactor complex programs and integration software services.
• Define and manage scoping, requirement definition and prioritisation 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 selection of an appropriate software development approach, whether predictive or adaptive.
• Design test cases and test scripts mapped to pre-determined criteria.
• Develop and maintain specialist knowledge of database and data warehouse concepts and architecture.
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use.

Skills

Java Spring Boot

Microservices

RabbitMQ

Kafka

RESTful APIs

SQL

NoSQL

Elasticsearch

Multithreading

Unix/Linux

Shell scripting

Git

Maven

Java EE

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering or a related field

Tools

AMQ

RabbitMQ

Kafka

Job description

Core42 is seeking an innovative Backend Engineer to design, build and test backend services, APIs and data processing pipelines. You will contribute to architecture discussions, optimise performance and ensure scalable, cost-efficient solutions aligned with regulatory needs across global deployments.

You will model software behavior, write clean code, and collaborate with teams to deliver robust services using Java, Spring Boot and Microservices.