Hands-on Engineering Lead: Enterprise Platforms & Automation

Salt Digital Recruitment

Abu Dhabi

On-site

AED 300,000 - 480,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Salt Digital Recruitment is assisting a client in Abu Dhabi to appoint an Engineering Lead / Principal Engineer. You will own architecture and delivery of enterprise platforms while remaining hands-on across coding and reviews.

You will guide a small team, shape APIs, data models, and workflows; drive security, CI/CD and observability; and explore AI/LLMs within workflows. Strong backend, distributed systems, and ERP/SAP integration experience are essential.

Qualifications

10+ years of software engineering experience.
4+ years at Staff, Principal, Lead Engineer, or equivalent.
Strong backend and distributed-systems experience.
Expertise in APIs, databases, microservices and enterprise integration.
Experience with workflow-heavy or transaction-heavy platforms.
Cloud, Kubernetes, containers and CI/CD experience.
Strong security, reliability and observability mindset.
Recent hands-on production engineering experience.

Responsibilities

Own architecture, system design, APIs, data models and technical delivery.
Design complex workflows, state management and human approval processes.
Build scalable enterprise integrations, including ERP/SAP where relevant.
Lead engineers while remaining hands-on with code and technical reviews.
Establish standards for security, testing, CI/CD, observability and reliability.
Translate ambiguous business requirements into practical technical solutions.
Identify appropriate opportunities to leverage AI/LLMs within enterprise workflows.