Senior Backend Architect for AI Platform - Dubai On-site

Humai; Dubai Emirate; On-site; AED 391,000 - 614,000; Full time

Job summary

Humai is hiring a senior backend engineer to own the backend across two live AI products in a UAE-based role. You will shape the platform’s queues, audits, tenancy, and integrations and collaborate with AI engineers. This on-site Dubai position sponsors the visa and offers a clear route toward an engineering lead as the team grows.

You will implement scalable architectures, set high engineering standards, and maintain robust security and observability from day one.

Qualifications

• 4+ years building and running backend systems in production, owning end-to-end services (releases, on-call, incidents, recovery).
• Experience with TypeScript/Node in production backends; Python is a plus for AI pipelines.
• Deep PostgreSQL: schema design, migrations, query performance.
• APIs and async job systems: queues, retries, idempotency, versioning.
• Cloud in production, ideally Azure: containers, managed services, networking, CI/CD, tests, rollbacks.
• Security from the engineering side: authentication, tenancy, audit logs, SOC 2 ISO 27001 controls in code.
• Clear written communication in a small team.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture and delivery for our backend services, from design through production.
• Write the architecture plan for the next stage of the platform, get it agreed, and ship it.
• Set the engineering standard: code review, tests, CI/CD, rollbacks, monitoring and tracing, incident response.
• Build and harden the integration surfaces: MCP, Salesforce and messaging integrations.
• Design for security and audit from the start: authentication, tenancy, audit trails, data residency, secrets.
• Run LLM pipelines in production properly: async job orchestration, provider failover, cost controls.
• Raise the level of the engineers and contractors around you through review and example.

Skills

TypeScript

Node.js

Python

PostgreSQL

APIs

Async job systems

CI/CD

Security

Documentation

Tools

Azure

CI/CD pipelines

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Humai is hiring a senior backend engineer to own the backend across two live AI products in a UAE-based role. You will shape the platform’s queues, audits, tenancy, and integrations and collaborate with AI engineers. This on-site Dubai position sponsors the visa and offers a clear route toward an engineering lead as the team grows.

You will implement scalable architectures, set high engineering standards, and maintain robust security and observability from day one.