Platform API Engineer – AI Agents for Banking

Discovered MENA; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 400,000 - 560,000; Full time

Job summary

Discovered MENA is seeking an API Engineer in Abu Dhabi to design, build and scale APIs and platform services powering AI agents across the organization. This role demands ownership from problem framing to production with a strong emphasis on security, compliance and governance in a regulated financial services environment.

The ideal candidate has hands-on experience delivering production-grade AI agents, is comfortable with cloud-native platforms and has a track record of mentoring engineers

Qualifications

• Proven background in financial services or banking.
• Understanding security, governance and regulatory context for AI systems.
• Experience building production-grade AI agent platforms.
• Ability to design, implement and scale APIs and platform services.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain secure, scalable APIs and platform services.
• Architect agent-based systems across their full lifecycle.
• Identify and resolve core agent failure modes and context management.
• Build reusable platform capabilities instead of one-off solutions.
• Design and run real-world A/B tests of AI features at scale.
• Work with product, data science, risk, security and compliance.
• Own end-to-end delivery from problem to production.
• Anchor technical direction and mentor engineers.
• Contribute to team growth and act as tech lead when needed.

Skills

API design

RESTful APIs

Event-driven design

Authentication & authorization

Versioning

Observability

Performance optimization

Cloud-native

Containerisation

Agent orchestration

Retrieval tooling

Evaluation tooling

LLMs knowledge

ML foundations

Regulatory awareness

Stakeholder collaboration

Job description

Discovered MENA is seeking an API Engineer in Abu Dhabi to design, build and scale APIs and platform services powering AI agents across the organization. This role demands ownership from problem framing to production with a strong emphasis on security, compliance and governance in a regulated financial services environment.

The ideal candidate has hands-on experience delivering production-grade AI agents, is comfortable with cloud-native platforms and has a track record of mentoring engineers