- Build and own backend services supporting trade execution
- Python, PostgreSQL and production API engineering
About Our Client
Leading organisation in Abu Dhabi.
Job Description
- Design, develop and maintain backend services and APIs using Python.
- Build and own services supporting trade execution and related workflows.
- Integrate with brokerage platforms and other third-party APIs.
- Build safe and reliable external integrations with appropriate authorisation, failure handling and traceability.
- Design and optimise PostgreSQL schemas and queries, ensuring data integrity, security and performance.
- Work closely with frontend and DevOps engineers to build, deploy and monitor production applications.
- Troubleshoot production issues and improve system latency, reliability and operational performance.
- Write automated tests and maintain clean, production-quality code.
- Take ownership of backend services while contributing across adjacent product areas when required.
- Use AI coding tools as part of the software development lifecycle to develop, investigate and validate changes.
- Work with product and AI teams where applications or agents need to interact safely with execution services.
The Successful Applicant
- 3-10 years' experience in backend software engineering.
- Experience within financial services, trading, trade execution or Order Management Systems (OMS) is preferred but not required.
- Strong hands on Python development experience.
- Strong experience building and supporting production HTTP APIs and production experience with PostgreSQL.
- Comfortable debugging complex production APIs and third party integrations.
- Strong understanding of reliability, performance and failure handling in production systems.
- Full stack, SRE/DevOps or AI application experience is advantageous.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
What's on Offer
- Opportunity to own technically important backend services within a growing engineering environment.
- Hands on exposure to trading and execution technology.
Contact: Ruwise Sheriff
Quote job ref: JN-112026-7141091
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