Senior Backend Engineer: AI-Driven Trading Platform

OrbicTrade; Dubai; On-site; AED 320,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

OrbicTrade in Dubai is seeking an experienced Senior Backend Developer to design, build and operate secure, scalable backend services and REST APIs. You will develop the AI extraction pipeline turning documents into structured trade data and implement validation with RAG-based techniques.

You will integrate with CTRM/ERP systems and ensure robust production operations on AWS. The role involves working closely with frontend, analytics, and client teams, owning production readiness, and guiding

Qualifications

• 7+ years of backend development experience.
• Strong Python development with frameworks such as FastAPI.
• Experience designing and operating REST APIs and event-driven or asynchronous systems.
• Strong SQL and PostgreSQL skills, including data modelling and performance tuning.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain secure, scalable backend services and REST APIs.
• Develop the AI extraction pipeline that turns emails, chats and documents into structured trade data.
• Implement grounding, validation and confidence scoring using reference data and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
• Build workflow services for review, four-eyes approval, confirmations, amendments and trade versioning.
• Develop integrations with CTRM, ERP, contract-management, market-data and data-lake platforms.
• Build asynchronous processing with queues, webhooks, retries, idempotency and reconciliation.
• Design and maintain PostgreSQL data models, including the canonical trade model and audit trail.
• Support the VaR module, including position feeds, market data and overnight risk runs.
• Run services on AWS using containers, with secure deployment patterns that also suit client-hosted AWS or Azure environments.
• Build logging, monitoring and alerting into every service.
• Apply secure engineering practices across authentication, authorisation, encryption and secrets management.
• Write automated tests and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
• Support root-cause analysis and resolution of production issues as L3 escalation.
• Participate in design reviews and provide technical guidance to other developers.

Skills

Python

FastAPI

REST APIs

Event-driven architectures

SQL

PostgreSQL

Security best practices

CI/CD

Testing

Troubleshooting

Tools

AWS

Docker

ECS

Aurora

S3

IAM

KMS

Secrets Manager

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Job description

OrbicTrade in Dubai is seeking an experienced Senior Backend Developer to design, build and operate secure, scalable backend services and REST APIs. You will develop the AI extraction pipeline turning documents into structured trade data and implement validation with RAG-based techniques.

You will integrate with CTRM/ERP systems and ensure robust production operations on AWS. The role involves working closely with frontend, analytics, and client teams, owning production readiness, and guiding