Engineering Lead / Principal Engineer

Salt
Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
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Engineering Lead / Principal Engineer — Enterprise Platforms & Automation Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE | Full-time The Role Our client is seeking a hands-on Engineering Lead / Principal Engineer to lead the architecture and delivery of complex enterprise platforms, automation and workflow-driven products. This is not a pure management role. You will lead a small engineering team while remaining hands-on across architecture, design, coding and production delivery. Key Responsibilities - Own architecture, system design, APIs, data models and technical delivery. - Design complex workflows, state management and human approval processes. - Build scalable enterprise integrations, including ERP/SAP where relevant. - Lead engineers while remaining hands-on with code and technical reviews. - Establish standards for security, testing, CI/CD, observability and reliability. - Translate ambiguous business requirements into practical technical solutions. - Identify appropriate opportunities to leverage AI/LLMs within enterprise workflows. Requirements - 10+ years software engineering experience. - 4+ years at Staff, Principal, Lead Engineer or equivalent level. - Strong backend and distributed-systems experience. - Expertise in APIs, databases, microservices and enterprise integration. - Experience with workflow-heavy or transaction-heavy platforms. - Cloud, Kubernetes, containers and CI/CD experience. - Strong security, reliability and observability mindset. - Recent hands-on production engineering experience. Strong Advantage - Workflow/BPM or state-machine experience. - Event-driven architecture. - ERP/SAP integrations. - Azure. - LLM/GenAI or agentic AI in production. - Financial services, government or other regulated environments. ***Only successful candidates will be contacted ***

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