Hands-On Engineering Lead: Architecture & Delivery

Salt; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 420,000 - 660,000; Full time

Job summary

Salt seeks a hands-on Engineering Lead / Principal Engineer to own the architecture and delivery of complex enterprise digital products and automation platforms in Abu Dhabi. This role remains technically hands-on while leading a small team and owning delivery from architecture through production.

You will define system boundaries, design patterns for long-running workflows, and establish standards for testing, security, and operability in a high-trust environment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software-engineering experience.
• 4+ years in a senior technical-lead, staff, principal or equivalent role.
• Experience with backend engineering and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Define system architecture, service boundaries, API contracts and data models.
• Design workflow and state-management patterns for long-running processes.
• Lead backend and full-stack engineers while contributing hands-on design and code review.
• Build integration patterns with enterprise systems and ERP.
• Establish engineering standards for testing, observability, security, CI/CD and production readiness.

Skills

Backend

Distributed systems

APIs

Cloud-native

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Security

Observability

Code review

Data modeling

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Salt seeks a hands-on Engineering Lead / Principal Engineer to own the architecture and delivery of complex enterprise digital products and automation platforms in Abu Dhabi. This role remains technically hands-on while leading a small team and owning delivery from architecture through production.

You will define system boundaries, design patterns for long-running workflows, and establish standards for testing, security, and operability in a high-trust environment.