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Backend Engineer

Unlock employer Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Posted: 22 Sep 2025

Financial

  • Estimate: $60k - $90k*
  • Zero income tax location

Accessibility

  • Office Only
  • Visa Provided

Requirements

  • Experience: Senior
  • English: Professional

Position

About the Job:
Presight is an ADX-listed public company with Abu Dhabi-based G42 as its majority shareholder and is the region’s leading big data analytics company powered by GenAI. It combines big data, analytics, and AI expertise to serve every sector, creating business and positive societal impact. Presight excels in all-source data interpretation to support insight-driven decision-making that shapes policy and creates safer, healthier, happier, and more sustainable societies.

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The Opportunity:
Presight is looking for a highly skilled and experienced Java Backend Engineer with a strong background in microservices architecture.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Design, develop, and maintain RESTful APIs and backend services using Java and Spring Boot.
  • Build scalable, secure, and fault-tolerant microservices.
  • Ensure system scalability, observability, and failover mechanisms.
  • Write clean, testable code and perform regular code reviews.
  • Implement microservices design patterns for distributed systems.
  • Collaborate with DevOps engineers to containerize applications using Docker and deploy via Kubernetes.
  • Design and secure microservices, container orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Ensure quality through testing, code reviews, and monitoring of backend services.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or related fields.
  • At least 5 years of programming experience.

Experience:

  • 5+ years of backend engineering experience with a focus on programming, automation, and system integration.
  • Strong hands-on experience with Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and RESTful APIs.
  • Additional programming language experience (e.g., Python) is a plus.
  • Proficiency in SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch).
  • Experience with message brokers such as Kafka or RabbitMQ, event sourcing, and stream processing.

What We Look For:
If you are performance-driven, have an inquisitive mind, and possess the agility to adapt to ambiguity, you will fit right in. You should be eager 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.

Location:
Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates (On-site)

Work Conditions:
Full-time

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