Senior Backend Engineer – AI/ML Microservices (Abu Dhabi)

LEFTFIELD SOLUTIONS; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 240,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

LEFTFIELD SOLUTIONS is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join a major AI transformation programme in Abu Dhabi. The role is on-site for six months, focusing on production-grade backend services, microservices and APIs supporting AI/ML applications and LLM-powered solutions.

You will design and build secure, scalable backend architectures and partner with AI/ML engineers, data scientists and frontend engineers to bring solutions from development into production. On-site in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Qualifications

• 5+ years' experience in Backend Engineering.
• Proven production experience with Python, ideally FastAPI or Django.
• Go or Java experience.
• Distributed systems and microservices experience.
• Hands-on Docker and Kubernetes experience.
• Experience designing REST APIs and/or gRPC.
• Experience with PostgreSQL or relational databases.
• Experience building AI/ML, LLM, or data-intensive production systems.
• Strong software architecture, scalability, security and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable backend services and microservices for AI-powered applications.
• Build APIs and orchestration services for LLMs, AI agents and workflows.
• Develop secure integrations with enterprise platforms, data platforms and external APIs.
• Build backend services supporting RAG, semantic search and vector database use cases.
• Develop high-performance applications using Python, Go or Java.
• Design and implement RESTful APIs and/or gRPC services.
• Build and deploy containerised applications using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Implement authentication, authorisation, RBAC, logging, monitoring and auditability.
• Optimise systems for secure on-premise and restricted environments.
• Work closely with AI/ML Engineers, Data Scientists and Frontend Engineers to productionize solutions.

Skills

Backend engineering

Python

Go or Java

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

REST/gRPC APIs

Distributed systems

RBAC

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

LEFTFIELD SOLUTIONS is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join a major AI transformation programme in Abu Dhabi. The role is on-site for six months, focusing on production-grade backend services, microservices and APIs supporting AI/ML applications and LLM-powered solutions.

You will design and build secure, scalable backend architectures and partner with AI/ML engineers, data scientists and frontend engineers to bring solutions from development into production. On-site in Abu Dhabi, UAE.