About the Role
We are looking for an experienced Senior Backend Developer to join our growing product team in Dubai. In this role, you will build the services that power the company, an AI-enabled front-office and risk platform specifically designed for commodity traders. Your work will involve AI extraction, trade workflow, validation, integration, and risk management. Given that trades pass through these services before entering clients' core systems, accuracy, auditability, and recovery will be as critical as speed. You will collaborate closely with front-end engineers, business analysts, application support, and client technology teams. This position encompasses design, development, and production ownership responsibilities.
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Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain secure, scalable backend services and REST APIs
- Develop the AI extraction pipeline that transforms emails, chats, and documents into structured trade data
- Implement grounding, validation, and confidence scoring using reference data and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
- Build workflow services for review, four-eyes approval, confirmations, amendments, and trade versioning
- Develop integrations with CTRM, ERP, contract management, market data, and data lake platforms
- Build asynchronous processing with queues, webhooks, retries, idempotency, and reconciliation
- Design and maintain PostgreSQL data models, including the canonical trade model and audit trail
- Support the VaR module, including position feeds, market data, and overnight risk runs
- Run services on AWS using containers, employing secure deployment patterns that also suit client-hosted AWS or Azure environments
- Build logging, monitoring, and alerting into every service
- Apply secure engineering practices across authentication, authorization, encryption, and secrets management
- Write automated tests and maintain CI/CD pipelines
- Support root-cause analysis and resolution of production issues as L3 escalation
- Participate in design reviews and provide technical guidance to other developers
Required Experience
- At least 7 years of hands-on backend development experience
- Strong development experience in Python, with frameworks such as FastAPI
- Experience designing and operating REST APIs and event-driven or asynchronous systems
- Strong SQL and PostgreSQL skills, including data modeling and performance tuning
- Production experience on AWS, including ECS or similar, Aurora, S3, IAM, KMS, and Secrets Manager
- Experience with Docker, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code
- Experience integrating enterprise systems, including mapping, error handling, and reconciliation
- Familiarity with OAuth2, role-based access control, and secure coding practices
- Experience supporting production systems and troubleshooting complex technical issues
- Proficiency in automated testing, version control, and structured software development processes
Preferred Experience
- Experience building LLM applications, using services such as Amazon Bedrock or Azure OpenAI
- Experience with RAG, prompt evaluation, and measuring extraction accuracy
- Background in commodity trading, energy, capital markets, or financial services technology
- Understanding of the trade lifecycle across Front, Middle, and Back Office functions
- Experience integrating with E/CTRM platforms such as Endur, Allegro, RightAngle, Aspect, or Eka
- Knowledge of market-risk calculations such as Value at Risk
- Familiarity with Azure and deploying software into client-owned environments
- Experience working to ISO 27001 or similar security standards
