Engineering Lead: AI Agents & Scalable Security

Global Ventures; Dubai; On-site; AED 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Democrance in Dubai is looking for an experienced Software Developer to lead AI projects such as building production-ready frameworks and optimizing database performance. The ideal candidate should have at least 5 years of experience in backend or full-stack development, strong leadership skills, and a passion for leveraging AI in product development.

You will be working in a dynamic environment with a small accountable team, making impactful contributions to enhance cybersecurity solutions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in backend or full-stack development.
• Strong leadership skills.
• Enthusiastic about leveraging AI in product development.

Responsibilities

• Lead projects in building AI Autonomous Agentic production-ready framework.
• Optimize latency of complex database queries.
• Design a new architecture for ingestion pipeline.

Skills

AI Agents frameworks - Agno, CrewAI, Langchain

Backend in Java Spring, Python FastAPI / Flask / Django

Elastic, Mongo, MySQL, Redis, S3

Kafka

Frontend in 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.

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

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

Requirements

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

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