Senior Backend Engineer - Python

Senior Backend Engineer - Python

Posted Date Feb 26, 2026 Employment Type Full-time Experience Level Mid-Senior level Location United Arab Emirates Category ** Programming ** Company **appliedai **

Senior Backend Engineer - Python On-site | Abu Dhabi

AppliedAI is a pioneering AI technology company headquartered in Abu Dhabi, committed to innovation and excellence in artificial intelligence solutions in regulated industries such as healthcare, insurance, government, and financial services. ****

Opus is the world's first Knowledge Work AI platform. Built by AppliedAI to pioneer Supervised Automation , a human-in-the-loop model where AI handles repetitive, structured tasks while human experts provide crucial oversight at defined intervals. ****

The platform uses its proprietary Large Work Model to generate and orchestrate outcome-based workflows, enabling a dramatic reduction in the cost of knowledge work and allowing human talent to focus on high-value, creative, and judgement-intensive activities.

Position Overview:

As a Full Stack / Backend Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and developing server-side logic, APIs, and backend systems using Python microservices. You will work closely with frontend developers, product managers, and data scientists to build scalable, secure, and maintainable software powering mission-critical workflows.

The ideal candidate is passionate about clean architecture, performance, and backend scalability, with experience in full stack environments and a solid understanding of modern software practices.

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Code Quality & Architecture

• Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.
• Implement unit, integration, and end-to-end tests to ensure code quality.
• Participate in code reviews and maintain coding standards.
• Follow SOLID principles, domain-driven design, and modular architecture practices.
• Refactor legacy systems and contribute to backend modernization efforts.

Collaboration & DevOps

• Work closely with frontend, DevOps, and ML teams to ship features end-to-end.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Ensure observability and traceability through proper logging and monitoring.
• Proactively communicate challenges and work collaboratively to resolve them.

Continuous Learning & Innovation

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• Stay up to date with backend, infrastructure, and DevOps best practices.
• Explore emerging technologies and propose improvements.
• Take ownership of assigned features and see them through production deployment.
• Mentor junior engineers and share knowledge across the team.

Qualifications:

• Experience designing and building scalable distributed systems using Python microservices with event-driven architecture.
• Strong hands-on experience with real-time messaging and data streaming technologies (Kafka, Redis Pub/Sub, Redis Streams, RabbitMQ, or similar).
• Proven expertise in architecting event-driven systems using real-time messaging and data streaming technologies such as Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, or Redis Streams.
• Proven expertise in asynchronous task processing with distributed task queues (Celery, RQ, or similar).
• Deep experience building high-performance REST APIs with modern Python frameworks (FastAPI, Flask, or similar).
• Solid experience orchestrating complex ETL workflows and data pipelines using workflow engines (Airflow, Prefect, Dagster, or similar).
• Strong understanding of caching strategies and message broker systems.
• Experience deploying containerized applications using Docker across multiple environments.
• Ability to tune and optimize relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, or similar) for high-throughput operations. Interested in opportunities specifically in United Arab Emirates? Discover our dedicated Visa Sponsorship Jobs in United Arab Emirates page featuring roles from top employers in this location.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines for automated testing and deployment.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.

Benefits:

• Opportunity to work with a leading AI technology company.
• Collaborative and innovative work environment.
• Growing, entrepreneurial and forward-thinking culture.
• Career growth and professional development opportunities.
• Exposure to a thriving ecosystem working from our Abu Dhabi HQ.
• 21 days of paid annual leave.
• Comprehensive private health insurance.
• Visa sponsorship for international candidates.

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