Lead Backend AI Engineer - Smart Home & Edge AI

The Greater Change; Dubai; On-site; AED 335,000 - 670,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Visa & Medical Insurance

Paid Leave

Annual Flight Ticket & End-of-Service

Top-Tier Tooling

Job summary

The Greater Change is building a cutting-edge, Dubai-based agentic smart home platform. The Backend AI Developer will lead design and orchestration of autonomous agents, integrating local data lakes, AI models, and edge computing to enable context-aware home intelligence.

You will bridge physical hardware, data systems and AI tooling, delivering fast prototyping and scalable backend services while advancing edge AI deployment and Home Assistant integrations.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software development with focus on AI integration and backend architecture.
• Proven track record in building autonomous/agentic systems (multi-agent orchestration, memory management).
• Strong command of Python (asyncio, FastAPI) and comfort with React JS for UI.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy and refine multi-agent systems using local frameworks and AI models.
• Develop and integrate smart home components and real-time protocols (MQTT, WebSockets, REST).
• Architect local data lake solutions using DuckDB and Parquet.
• Manage self-hosted server environments with Docker and Proxmox VE.
• Build responsive dashboards and configuration portals in React JS.

Skills

Python

FastAPI

Asyncio

AI integration

IoT

Linux

Tools

Docker

Proxmox VE

DuckDB

Parquet

Ollama

OpenClaw

Job description

The Greater Change is building a cutting-edge, Dubai-based agentic smart home platform. The Backend AI Developer will lead design and orchestration of autonomous agents, integrating local data lakes, AI models, and edge computing to enable context-aware home intelligence.

You will bridge physical hardware, data systems and AI tooling, delivering fast prototyping and scalable backend services while advancing edge AI deployment and Home Assistant integrations.