Engineering Lead

spiderSilk; Dubai; On-site; AED 367,000 - 551,000; Full time

Job summary

A cybersecurity startup is seeking an experienced Engineering Lead to drive the development of AI-driven solutions. Key responsibilities include leading projects to build scalable systems, optimizing complex database queries, and managing a small team. Candidates should have over 5 years of experience in backend or full-stack development and strong leadership abilities. The role offers competitive salary and the opportunity to work on intriguing technology challenges in a startup environment.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Early-stage startup experience

Interesting technology challenges

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in backend or full-stack development.
• Experience in building scalable and production-ready AI solutions.
• Strong leadership skills with a history of managing teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead projects focused on building AI Autonomous Agentic frameworks.
• Optimize latency for complex database queries.
• Create a new architecture for ingestion pipelines.

Skills

Backend development

AI Agents building

Leadership

Full-stack development

Tools

Java Spring

Python FastAPI

React Typescript

Kafka

Elastic

MongoDB

MySQL

Redis

S3

Job description

Engineering Lead

Department: Engineering
Reports To: CTO
Who We Are! Back in 2019, spiderSilk was born with a bold idea: build a regional, sovereign cybersecurity IP that could stand tall on the global stage.

Our mission? To shake up the way organizations protect their ever-changing digital worlds with continuous, intelligent, and autonomous security that doesn’t miss a beat.

We’re a global mix of curious minds, problem-solvers, and passionate builders, all united by one goal: making the internet a safer place for everyone. Around here, we thrive on vision, energy, and a strong sense of ownership.

If this feels like your kind of crew, you’ll probably fit right in.

What you'll do

Past projects you would have led:

• Building AI Autonomous Agentic production-ready framework

• Optimizing the latency of complex database queries in SQL DB or Elastic

• Adding Redis queues and a worker container to our stack to execute async tasks

• Come up with a new architecture for our ingestion pipeline with the goal to increase throughput and cut cost

• Building SDKs or APIs with high focus on DX

Tech Stack

You should be familiar with a majority of these but we trust that you can pick up a new tech stack quickly.

• AI Agents frameworks - Agno, CrewAI, Langchain

• Backend in Java Spring, Python FastAPI / Flask / Django

• Elastic, Mongo, MySQL, Redis, S3

• Kafka

• Frontend in React Typescript

What we're looking for

• Experience in maintenance of highly reliable and scaling infrastructure as well as building AI Agents scalable and production-ready solutions (with context engineering, evals, monitoring)

• Strong leadership skills

• 5+ years of experience in backend or full-stack development

• Enthusiastic about leveraging AI in product development

• Hard worker and thrive working and leading a small and accountable team

• Previous startup or founding experience

Bonus

• Experience with or interest in API, SDK design and DX

• AI experience

• Impressive achievements from previous careers or side projects

Why spiderSilk?

• You are joining very early

• Strong Product Market Fit!

• Interesting technology challenges (high scale ops)

• We are building small but highly capable teams

• Building for global companies and organisations

• Competitive salary