Senior AI Backend Engineer | Build Scalable AI APIs

PwC Middle East; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

PwC Middle East is seeking an AI Backend Engineer to join our AI Centre of Excellence, delivering backend services powering AI products from strategy to execution. You will design RESTful APIs, build modular AI-enabled services, and collaborate across multi-location teams to optimize performance and cost.

Requires 1–3 years in backend engineering, experience with RESTful APIs, containers, and CI/CD. Strong communication in English; Arabic preferred.

Qualifications

• 1–3 years of backend engineering experience, including exposure to building AI-enabled solutions.
• Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs.
• Hands-on experience with containerized services and CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement RESTful APIs for authentication, data access, and system health checks.
• Develop modular services to handle model inference, prompt orchestration, and pipeline management.
• Orchestrate background and asynchronous tasks for long-running AI workloads.
• Integrate with leading LLM platforms (e.g., Azure OpenAI, OpenAI, Hugging Face) and optimize calls for performance and cost.
• Containerize services using Docker and DockerCompose, and collaborate on CI/CD pipelines.
• Help manage and scale data stores in partnership with the team.
• Define clear API contracts and data models with frontend engineers.
• Produce clear documentation: OpenAPI/Swagger specs, architecture diagrams, and in-code comments.
• Participate in design discussions, architectural reviews, and peer code reviews to keep quality high.
• Continuously build your skills and keep up with emerging AI tools, frameworks, and best practices.

Skills

Communication

English proficiency

Arabic language

Curious / proactive

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Azure / Microsoft certifications a plus

Tools

Node.js

Python

Docker

Docker Compose

MongoDB

Redis

JWT authentication

RESTful APIs

AI/ML integration

Job description

PwC Middle East is seeking an AI Backend Engineer to join our AI Centre of Excellence, delivering backend services powering AI products from strategy to execution. You will design RESTful APIs, build modular AI-enabled services, and collaborate across multi-location teams to optimize performance and cost.

Requires 1–3 years in backend engineering, experience with RESTful APIs, containers, and CI/CD. Strong communication in English; Arabic preferred.