Staff Software Engineer

Staff Software Engineer – Full Stack Competitive Salary plus benefits Abu Dhabi Discover the opportunity We are hiring a Staff Software Engineer to help shape the technical foundation of a strategic initiative from an early stage. Our client is building a modern digital platform within a regulated and integration heavy environment that brings together core product capabilities, workflow orchestration, and artificial intelligence native engineering practices. This is an opportunity that offers strong ownership, broad scope, and meaningful architectural depth for someone ready to move away from traditional engineering approaches. Discover the role In this high ownership role, you will work across backend services, frontend applications, APIs, workflows, and platform foundations. You will navigate ambiguous environments, influence architecture, and turn complex requirements into reliable product outcomes. We are looking for an artificial intelligence native builder who uses modern software tools as part of their daily workflow to accelerate design, prototype quickly, improve code quality, and deliver strong end to end outcomes. Discover the responsibilities • Lead the design and development of core platform services, APIs, frontend applications, dashboards, and internal tools • Build full stack solutions across backend systems, user experiences, workflow logic, and integrations • Use modern productivity tools to accelerate design, coding, testing, debugging, documentation, prototyping, and delivery • Design orchestration and workflow logic across services, vendors, business processes, and external systems • Drive integration architecture with third party platforms, enterprise systems, identity providers, financial systems, and external services • Partner closely with product, design, security, business, and engineering teams to translate requirements into scalable technical solutions • Think end to end across product, user experience, architecture, delivery, operations, and long term maintainability • Define and improve engineering standards for architecture, code quality, testing, observability, security, and operational excellence • Mentor engineers and help raise the team’s artificial intelligence native engineering practices • Contribute to long term platform strategy including build versus buy decisions, extensibility, and maintainability Discover the requirements • Eight or more years of software engineering experience with strong experience building and operating production systems • Experience working at senior or staff level on complex distributed platforms • Strong full stack engineering background across backend systems and frontend applications • Strong backend development experience in one or more languages such as Java, Go, Python, or Node.js • Experience with modern frontend frameworks such as React, Next.js, or similar • Deep experience with service oriented or microservices based architectures • Strong understanding of API design, event driven systems, workflow orchestration, and distributed systems patterns • Hands on experience integrating with third party systems and external APIs in reliable, secure, and scalable ways • Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP along with containerized deployment patterns • Strong understanding of security, reliability, resilience, observability, and performance at scale • Ability to use artificial intelligence tools effectively as part of the software development lifecycle • Strong product sense and ability to think beyond assigned tickets toward customer outcomes, platform value, and business impact • Ability to navigate ambiguity, drive clarity, make sound architectural tradeoffs, and operate with high ownership and accountability • Experience building artificial intelligence assisted or enabled products, developer tools, internal platforms, agentic workflows, or automation systems is preferred • Experience using tools such as Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude, Lovable, Replit, or similar is a plus • Experience in regulated domains such as fintech, digital platforms, enterprise software, or other compliance sensitive environments is beneficial • Experience with workflow and orchestration engines such as Temporal, Zeebe, Camunda, or similar is preferred Show more Show less