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Senior Backend Engineer

Presight Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Posted: 24 Jul 2024

Financial

  • Estimate: $120k - $180k*
  • Zero income tax location

Accessibility

  • Office Only
  • Visa Provided

Requirements

  • Experience: Senior
  • English: Professional

Position

About the Job
Presight is seeking an innovative, creative, and experienced Senior Backend Engineer to build the structure of advanced software applications by writing flawless business logic, server scripts, and APIs. This key technical role is essential in sustaining and optimizing the infrastructure that develops and delivers cutting-edge, next-generation analytics solutions at Presight.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Design business-specific software components and modules using appropriate modeling techniques in line with agreed software design standards, patterns, and methodologies.
  • Create and communicate multiple design views to identify and balance the concerns of all stakeholders, ensuring both functional and non-functional requirements are met.
  • Model or simulate the behavior of proposed software to enable stakeholder approval and facilitate effective construction of the software.
  • Design, code, verify, test, document, amend, and re-factor complex programs/scripts and integration software services.
  • Define and manage scoping, requirement definition, and prioritization activities for small-scale changes, assisting with more complex change initiatives.
  • Follow agreed standards and apply appropriate techniques to elicit and document detailed requirements.
  • Contribute to the appropriate selection of a software development approach—predictive (plan-driven) or adaptive (iterative/agile).
  • Design test cases and test scripts mapping back to predetermined criteria, clearly recording and reporting outcomes.
  • Develop and maintain specialist knowledge of database and data warehouse concepts, design principles, architecture, software, and facilities.
  • Develop optimal solutions to enhance user experience, optimizing for maximum speed, scalability, and technical feasibility.
  • Participate in overall architecture discussion meetings to gain a detailed understanding of the complete architecture of a product and its functionalities.
  • Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
  • Comply with QHSE (Quality Health Safety and Environment), Business Continuity, Information Security, Privacy, Risk, Compliance Management, and Governance policies.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
  • Minimum 6 years of experience in software engineering in a big data environment.
  • At least 6 years of experience in Agile development methodologies in an AI service organization or analytics industry.
  • Hands-on experience with Java, Spring Boot, Hadoop, and Docker is a must.
  • Experience in using Hive and Kubernetes is a bonus.
  • Knowledge of JavaScript and Python is a must.
  • Good to have experience with any cloud platform.

What We Look For:
If you are a performance-driven, inquisitive mind with the agility to adapt to ambiguity, you will fit right in. You should be eager to explore opportunities to build meaningful collaborations with stakeholders and aspire to create unique customer-centric solutions. A bias for action and a passion for conquering new frontiers in the AI space is at the heart of the Presight community.

What Working at Presight Offers:

  • Culture: An open, diverse, and inclusive environment with a global vision that encourages personal growth and focuses on groundbreaking, industry-first innovations.
  • Career: Outstanding learning, development, and growth opportunities via structured training programs and innovative high-tech projects.
  • Rewards: A competitive remuneration package with a host of perks including healthcare, education support, leave benefits, and more.
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About Presight

Presight, an ADX-listed public company limited by shares whose majority shareholder is Abu Dhabi company G42, is the region’s leading big data analytics company powered by Artificial Intelligence (“AI”). We combine big data, analytics, and AI expertise to serve every sector, of every scale, to create business and positive societal impact. With our world-class computer vision, AI and omni-analytics platform as its engine, we excel at all-source data interpretation to support insight-driven decision making that shapes policy and creates safer, healthier, happier, and more sustainable societies.