Senior Backend & Workflow Engineer for Enterprise Platforms

Halian; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 250,000 - 450,000; Full time

Job summary

Halian seeks a Senior Backend / Workflow Engineer to design and build the services, workflows, and orchestration platforms powering large-scale enterprise products. This role focuses on robust, scalable systems rather than traditional API development, including workflow engines, state management, and secure integrations.

You will collaborate with AI, product, and engineering teams to implement event-driven architectures, long-running transactions, and high-availability services.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of backend software engineering experience.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, Java, C#, or Node.js.
• Strong data modelling and relational databases knowledge.
• Experience with event-driven and distributed systems.
• Containerisation and cloud-native development experience.
• Strong understanding of system reliability, security, and scalability.

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

APIs and services

Data modelling

Relational databases

Event-driven systems

Distributed systems

Containerisation

Cloud-native

Reliability & security

Tools

Kubernetes

Temporal

Camunda BPMN

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Service Bus

ERP SAP integrations

Job description

Halian seeks a Senior Backend / Workflow Engineer to design and build the services, workflows, and orchestration platforms powering large-scale enterprise products. This role focuses on robust, scalable systems rather than traditional API development, including workflow engines, state management, and secure integrations.

You will collaborate with AI, product, and engineering teams to implement event-driven architectures, long-running transactions, and high-availability services.