Dubai-Based Lead AI Engineer

Twelve Data; United Arab Emirates; Hybrid; AED 380,000 - 520,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Office in Dubai relocation support

Medical insurance

Paid sick leave

One round-trip flight home per year

Individual terms offered in the offer

Job summary

Twelve Data is opening a Dubai hub and seeks a senior AI engineer to drive AI in the product. You will write code, tests, and docs, and own features end-to-end with AI integration. You’ll verify AI outputs, reduce defects, and speed up delivery in a fast, low-bureaucracy environment.

You will help shape the AI strategy, build agents, and publish data access for AI ecosystems while working with PostgreSQL, microservices, and CI/CD in a scalable, high-load setup.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of senior engineering experience.
• Proficient with Go and Python.
• Deep PostgreSQL knowledge and data modeling skills.
• Experience with high-load systems and big data pipelines.
• Proficient with Docker, Redis, Kafka, gRPC, REST.
• Hands-on with GitLab CI/CD and trunk-based development.
• Understand microservice architecture and distributed systems.
• Experience building AI agents and custom AI tooling.
• Ability to craft prompts and manage AI context.
• Strong focus on data integrity and accuracy.

Responsibilities

• Develop with AI tools and own features from idea to production.
• Verify AI results and prevent production issues through reviews.
• Advance AI practices across the team and document guidelines.
• Build custom AI agents and integrate with Twelve Data data assets.
• Ensure reliability and observability for high traffic systems.

Skills

Go

Python

PostgreSQL

Microservices

AI tools

AI agents

Prompt engineering

Data integrity

High-load systems

Distributed systems

Docker

Redis

Kafka

gRPC

REST

GitLab CI/CD

Code review

AI model integration

Tools

Docker

Redis

Kafka

gRPC

REST

GitLab CI/CD

Job description

Twelve Data is opening a Dubai hub and seeks a senior AI engineer to drive AI in the product. You will write code, tests, and docs, and own features end-to-end with AI integration. You’ll verify AI outputs, reduce defects, and speed up delivery in a fast, low-bureaucracy environment.

You will help shape the AI strategy, build agents, and publish data access for AI ecosystems while working with PostgreSQL, microservices, and CI/CD in a scalable, high-load setup.