Senior Backend & Workflow Architect

Halian; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 350,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Halian is seeking a Senior Backend / Workflow Engineer to design and build the services powering large-scale enterprise products. You’ll craft workflow engines, transactional systems, and integrations that support thousands of users in complex processes.

This role focuses on scalable, secure, and highly available systems, with opportunities to influence platform architecture. Collaboration with AI, product, and engineering teams is core to delivering transformation at scale.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of backend software engineering experience.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, Java, C#, or Node.js.
• Experience building production-grade APIs and services.
• Strong data modelling and relational database knowledge.
• Experience with event-driven and distributed systems.
• Containerisation and cloud-native development experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop scalable backend services and APIs.
• Build workflow engines and state-management systems.
• Design resilient enterprise integrations.
• Model complex approval processes and long-running transactions.
• Implement event-driven architectures and asynchronous processing.
• Build secure, auditable, highly available systems.
• Collaborate closely with AI, product, and engineering teams.
• Influence platform architecture and engineering standards.

Skills

Backend engineering

Python

Go

Java

C#

Node.js

API development

Data modelling

Event-driven

Cloud-native

Containerization

System reliability

Tools

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Kubernetes

Docker

Cloud platforms

Job description

Halian is seeking a Senior Backend / Workflow Engineer to design and build the services powering large-scale enterprise products. You’ll craft workflow engines, transactional systems, and integrations that support thousands of users in complex processes.

This role focuses on scalable, secure, and highly available systems, with opportunities to influence platform architecture. Collaboration with AI, product, and engineering teams is core to delivering transformation at scale.