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Senior Software Engineer (Backend / Platform)
United Arab Emirates
· Full-time
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Not Applicable
Senior Software Engineer (Backend / Platform)
Experience
10–14 years of professional software engineering experience with clear progression into system ownership, architecture, and technical leadership.
Role Overview
We are hiring a Senior Engineer who operates at architect level while remaining hands-on. This role owns backend and platform architecture, leads technical decision-making, and raises engineering standards across mission-critical fintech systems.
Key Responsibilities
Architecture & Platform Ownership
Experience
10–14 years of professional software engineering experience with clear progression into system ownership, architecture, and technical leadership.
Role Overview
We are hiring a Senior Engineer who operates at architect level while remaining hands-on. This role owns backend and platform architecture, leads technical decision-making, and raises engineering standards across mission-critical fintech systems.
Key Responsibilities
Architecture & Platform Ownership
- Design, evolve, and govern backend and service architectures using Node.js, PHP/Laravel, and Python/FastAPI.
- Own REST API architecture including domain modelling, versioning, idempotency, and security controls.
- Define and review HLDs/LLDs ensuring scalability, auditability, and resilience.
- Drive decisions around data consistency, transactions, and fault tolerance.
- Actively code on complex workflows, financial logic, and core platform services.
- Review critical code paths for correctness, performance, and security.
- Lead incident remediation through structured RCA and systemic fixes.
- Own technical debt prioritisation aligned with business and risk impact.
- Establish AI-assisted engineering practices for development, testing, and documentation.
- Define responsible AI usage standards with strict data protection controls.
- Coach engineers on effective AI-assisted workflows without compromising rigor.
- Own data modelling strategies using MySQL and PostgreSQL.
- Ensure financial accuracy, traceability, and regulatory compliance.
- Design systems with auditability and operational resilience as first-class concerns.
- Lead and mentor a small backend/platform team.
- Provide architectural direction and technical feedback.
- Partner with product, compliance, security, and DevOps teams.
- Participate in hiring and technical interviews.
- Expert backend engineering in Node.js, PHP/Laravel, Python/FastAPI.
- Deep experience with REST APIs and RDBMS systems.
- Strong grounding in clean architecture, testing, and CI/CD.
- Proven experience in regulated or fintech environments.
Key Skills
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ai
fault tolerance
postgresql
devops
mysql
cicd
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- Posted
- Feb 12, 2026
- Type
- Full-time
- Level
- Not Applicable
- Location
- Dubai
- Company
- Hoxton Wealth
Industries
Financial Services
Categories
Engineering
Information Technology
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