Hands-On Engineering Lead for Real-Time AI & Systems

Salt; Dubai; On-site; AED 420,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

Salt seeks a hands-on Engineering Lead to scale its real-time AI products from a small team in Dubai to a larger engineering group.

You will combine architecture oversight with coding, lead hiring and people management, and own core Python backend, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, and observability to support high-scale AI/ML workloads. This role reports to the CTO and requires strong debugging of production incidents and collaboration with product and infra teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience.
• 2+ years leading engineers with hiring & people-management responsibility.
• Production experience with AI/ML/LLM systems, model serving or GPU infrastructure.
• Comfortable with architecture, code reviews, debugging production incidents and still writing code.
• Proven experience hiring, developing and managing engineering teams.

Skills

Python

Backend

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD

GitOps

Observability

Distributed systems

AI/ML/LLM

Model serving

GPU infrastructure

Architecture

Code reviews

Production incident debugging

Hiring & management

Tools

WebRTC/SIP

Job description

Salt seeks a hands-on Engineering Lead to scale its real-time AI products from a small team in Dubai to a larger engineering group.

You will combine architecture oversight with coding, lead hiring and people management, and own core Python backend, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, and observability to support high-scale AI/ML workloads. This role reports to the CTO and requires strong debugging of production incidents and collaboration with product and infra teams.