Software Development Engineer 3

noon; Dubai; On-site; AED 300,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

noon is building an AI-enabled engineering function in Dubai to power FinanceOS. You will work with Finance, Product and partner teams to turn complex finance processes into scalable, well-engineered systems, while mentoring more junior engineers.

We expect a senior engineer who embraces AI-assisted development, designs for auditability, and helps raise the technical bar through leadership and hands-on delivery in a fast-moving, product-focused environment.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience.
• Proficient in Python, Go and SQL; strong data modelling skills.
• Experience with distributed systems and AI-assisted development.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and self-directed.

Responsibilities

• Translate process pain points into automation requirements for FinanceOS.
• Influence direction, communicate trade-offs to stakeholders and shape technical strategy.
• Unify tool landscape, define target architecture, consolidate platforms without disrupting finance ops.
• Build data models, pipelines and reconciliation mechanisms for end-to-end data integrity.
• Keep humans in the loop, ensuring auditability and control integrity.
• Mentor and lead junior engineers on the team.

Skills

Distributed systems

Self-directed

Mentoring

Tools

Python

FastAPI

Pydantic

Golang

MySQL

BigTable

Spanner

Job description

Who are we -

We're building an ecosystem of digital products and services that power everyday life across the Middle East-fast, scalable, and deeply customer-centric. Our mission is to deliver to every door every day. We want to redefine what technology can do in this region, and we're looking for a SDE 3 who can help us move even faster.

noon's mission: Every door, every day.

What you'll do:

Team noon has some of the fastest, smartest, and hardest-working people we've encountered. With a young, aggressive, and talented team, we're driving major missions forward.

We are looking for a skilled SDE2/3 to act as a senior technical leader on FinanceOS. You will work closely with Finance, Product and partner engineering teams to turn complex finance processes into well-engineered systems, while raising the technical bar for the team through design leadership, hand-on delivery and mentoring.

This is an AI-enabled engineering position - we want candidates who apply to be well-versed with AI tooling for software development, understand how and when to use it and cognizant of trade-offs and where problems may hide. Noon is journeying into integrating AI into our standard software engineering lifecycle, and we'd like folks we hire to be catalysts of that transition.

• Product-oriented - working directly with the stakeholders and finance operations teams to translate process pain points into buildable automation requirements.
• Influence the direction. Communicate trade-offs clearly to engineering and business stakeholders, and help shape the FinanceOS roadmap and technical strategy.
• Unify the tool landscape. Assess the existing tools, define the target architecture, and drive consolidation and migration onto the platform without disrupting day-to-day finance operations.
• Build the source of truth. Design data models, pipelines and reconciliation mechanisms that keep financial data accurate, consistent and traceable end to end.
• Keep humans in the loop where it matters, designing for auditability and control integrity, not just speed.
• Mentor and lead more junior members of the engineering team

What you'll need -

• Familiar with our core stack (Python / FastAPI / Pydantic / Golang / MySQL)
• Ownership-driven mindset, comfortable with ambiguity and with evolving existing systems, not only task consumer.
• Versed with GCP-native databases such as BigTable / Spanner
• Very familiar with (and confident writing) SQL
• At least 6+ years working experience
• Understand how to leverage AI to boost productivity, how to steer agents and when to do things by hand
• Experienced with distributed systems
• A self directed personality and ability to work independently

Who will excel -

• We're looking for people with high standards, who understand that hard work matters.
• You need to be relentlessly resourceful and operate with a deep bias for action.
• We need people with the courage to be fiercely original.
• noon is not for everyone; readiness to adapt, pivot, and learn is essential.