Principal Platform & AI Systems Architect

Inception42; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

Inception42, a G42 company, seeks a Principal Software Engineer to lead end-to-end technical strategy, architecture, and execution for web-scale platforms. The role involves defining system-level patterns, enforcing engineering best practices, and mentoring senior engineers within a fast-paced agile environment.

You will lead critical components of our AI platform, drive API design, and enable scalable, observable, and secure product delivery across teams.

Qualifications

• 12–15+ years of software engineering experience with strong full stack and platform engineering.
• Experience building shared platforms, frameworks, or internal tooling.
• Proficiency in front-end technologies (React, Angular) and modern JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Strong backend experience (Node.js, Python, or Go) with API/service design at scale.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, microservices and platform architectures.
• Experience with API design (REST/gRPC) and versioning strategies.
• Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure).
• Hands-on with Docker, Kubernetes and orchestration.
• Experience with observability tools is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build scalable platform systems (frontend platforms, backend services, and shared infrastructure).
• Develop reusable UI frameworks, design systems, and component libraries.
• Design and maintain platform APIs and shared services used across products.
• Establish and drive platform engineering best practices (modularity, observability, reliability, security).
• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines, internal developer platforms, and automation tooling.
• Improve developer experience by reducing friction in development, testing, and deployment.
• Ensure high availability, performance, and scalability across distributed systems.
• Mentor engineers and guide teams in adopting platform capabilities.

Skills

Full stack engineering

Platform engineering

Shared platforms

React

Angular

Node.js

Python

Go

Distributed systems

Microservices

API design

REST/gRPC

AWS

Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

Observability

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Inception42, a G42 company, seeks a Principal Software Engineer to lead end-to-end technical strategy, architecture, and execution for web-scale platforms. The role involves defining system-level patterns, enforcing engineering best practices, and mentoring senior engineers within a fast-paced agile environment.

You will lead critical components of our AI platform, drive API design, and enable scalable, observable, and secure product delivery across teams.