Engineering Lead

spiderSilk; Dubai; On-site; AED 360,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

spiderSilk in Dubai is seeking an experienced backend/full-stack engineer to build AI autonomous agentic frameworks and optimize performance across data pipelines. You will work on production-ready AI agents, scalable infra, and DX-focused SDKs, while collaborating with a small, accountable team.

The role suits those passionate about AI-driven product development and startup experience. The team emphasizes ownership, high-impact work, and delivering secure, scalable solutions in a fast-paced

Qualifications

• Experience maintaining reliable, scalable infrastructure and building AI agents for production.
• Strong leadership and ability to lead a small accountable team.
• 5+ years in backend or full-stack development.
• Enthusiasm for leveraging AI in product development.
• Previous startup or founding experience.

Responsibilities

• Build AI Autonomous Agentic production-ready framework.
• Optimize latency of complex database queries in SQL DB or Elastic.
• Add Redis queues and a worker container to execute async tasks.
• Design a new ingestion pipeline architecture to increase throughput and cut cost.
• Build SDKs or APIs with high focus on DX.

Skills

Leadership

AI in product development

Startup experience

Team management

Backend / full-stack experience

Tools

Agno

CrewAI

Langchain

Java Spring

Python FastAPI/Flask/Django

Elastic

Mongo

MySQL

Redis

S3

Kafka

React TypeScript

Job description

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.

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.

About The Role

• 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

Requirements

• AI Agents frameworks - Agno, CrewAI, Langchain
• Backend in Java Spring, Python FastAPI / Flask / Django
• Elastic, Mongo, MySQL, Redis, S3
• Kafka
• Frontend in React Typescript

Qualifications

• 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