Senior Backend Workflow Engineer — Enterprise Orchestration

Salt; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 420,000 - 540,000; Full time

Job summary

Salt is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join our enterprise technology team in Abu Dhabi. You will design and build core backend services, workflow engines, and complex approval processes to power next-generation enterprise products.

You will work on secure, scalable backends, human approvals, and deterministic decision logic, collaborating with AI, integration, and product teams to deliver production-ready systems.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional backend engineering experience.
• Strong hands-on development experience in Python or Go (preferred). Java, C#, or Node.js/TypeScript also considered.
• Proven experience building and maintaining production APIs and backend services.
• Strong knowledge of relational databases, SQL and data modelling.
• Experience with asynchronous processing and event-driven architectures.
• Solid understanding of authentication, authorisation and enterprise security.
• Hands-on experience with Docker, CI/CD and automated testing.
• Ability to demonstrate recent, production-level coding experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain production-grade backend services and APIs.
• Build complex workflow engines, state machines and approval processes.
• Develop long-running transactional workflows, including human approvals, exception handling and retry mechanisms.
• Implement business rules, policy engines and deterministic decision logic.
• Integrate backend services with SAP/ERP and other enterprise applications.
• Design robust relational databases and data models.
• Implement secure authentication, authorisation, audit trails and idempotent operations.
• Build asynchronous and event-driven processing using queues, events and background jobs.
• Develop automated tests and support CI/CD pipelines.
• Ensure systems are observable, reliable and maintainable in production.
• Collaborate closely with frontend, AI, integration and product engineering teams.

Skills

Python

Go

Java

C#

Node.js/TypeScript

Tools

Docker

CI/CD

Automated testing

Job description

Salt is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join our enterprise technology team in Abu Dhabi. You will design and build core backend services, workflow engines, and complex approval processes to power next-generation enterprise products.

You will work on secure, scalable backends, human approvals, and deterministic decision logic, collaborating with AI, integration, and product teams to deliver production-ready systems.