Senior Backend Engineer (AI Agents)

Senior Backend Engineer (AI Agent Platforms)

Contract · Abu Dhabi, UAE · Start ASAP

About the opportunity

We’re partnered with a leading sovereign AI company in the UAE, delivering a flagship AI transformation within defense.

This is a rare backend role at the heart of enterprise AI. You’ll build the “nervous system” that powers AI agents in production : the orchestration layers, secure API gateways and integrations that connect Large Language Models (LLMs) to industrial ERPs and sensitive engineering data. Production systems, not demos.

You’re not just building APIs; you’re building the “hands” that let AI do real work.

What you’ll do

• Architect the “Agent of Agents” orchestration layer that coordinates specialised AI agents, managing state, task routing and error handling
• Build the task router and intent classifier services that map requests to skills and playbooks, with deterministic execution for critical financial and engineering workflows
• Design scalable, containerised microservices for high-concurrency, low-latency workloads
• Build the secure Data Access Layer that lets AI agents read from and write to SAP S/4HANA and Ariba, with strict validation before any transaction is committed
• Connect agents to vector databases, retrieval models and external data feeds, handling caching, rate limiting and normalisation
• Implement gateway and policy services that enforce authentication, RBAC and PII redaction before data ever reaches an LLM
• Engineer for on-premise and air-gapped deployment, with full logging, tracing and observability

What we’re looking for

• 5+ years in backend engineering, building distributed systems or platforms that serve AI/ML in production
• Expert Python (FastAPI or Django) and Go or Java for high-performance services
• Strong Docker and Kubernetes experience, ideally in on-premise environments
• RESTful and gRPC API design; experience with API gateways (Kong, NGINX)
• PostgreSQL plus vector databases (Weaviate, Milvus)
• Experience building high-availability, auditable systems, ideally in fintech, healthcare or defence

Background we love (not required, but a strong signal):

Hands-on work with AI agents, LLM orchestration or MCP; ERP integration (SAP, OData, SOAP); or delivering in regulated, structured environments.

How the team works

• An elite team of engineers from FAANG and frontier AI labs
• What matters is what you ship, not the hours you spend
• Low ego, high standards. The best idea wins, whoever it comes from
• Rigorous engineering, delivered at startup pace

The setup

• Abu Dhabi, UAE
• Contract, senior level
• Competitive rates
• Onboarding in the coming weeks

Why this role?

Your code will enable AI agents to forecast critical supply shortages, validate the safety of engineering designs, and automate high-stakes financial workflows.

You’ll be one of the few engineers in the world defining how Large Language Models connect to the industrial core of a defence prime, turning static systems of record into dynamic systems of intelligence. If you want to build the secure, high-performance architecture that makes AI tangible, this is the role.

Interested?

Apply or message the hiring manager directly for a confidential conversation.

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