Senior Backend Architect: Scalable Microservices & Cloud

NADIA Recruitment & Management Consultants; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 480,000 - 720,000; Full time

Job summary

NADIA Recruitment & Management Consultants is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer 3 for a client in Abu Dhabi. The role focuses on designing, building, and operating backend microservices at scale, with strong emphasis on cloud platforms and container orchestration.

You will drive architectural decisions, ADRs, and large-scale migrations, while improving observability, IaC practices, and CI/CD pipelines across multi-region deployments.

Qualifications

• Experience leading ADRs and architectural decision records across cross-team systems.
• Track record of large-scale migrations and platform re-architecture initiatives.
• Hands-on observability at scale: metrics, distributed tracing, SLO/SLI, and incident management.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi) and platform engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Design and own backend microservices architecture and APIs.
• Lead architecture decisions and ADRs for cross-team systems.
• Drive migrations and platform redesigns at scale across regions.
• Improve observability with metrics, tracing, and incident management.

Skills

Technical leadership

Cross-team collaboration

System design

Observability at scale

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Pulumi

Kafka

SQS/SNS

Pub/Sub

Redis

Job description

NADIA Recruitment & Management Consultants is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer 3 for a client in Abu Dhabi. The role focuses on designing, building, and operating backend microservices at scale, with strong emphasis on cloud platforms and container orchestration.

You will drive architectural decisions, ADRs, and large-scale migrations, while improving observability, IaC practices, and CI/CD pipelines across multi-region deployments.