Senior Backend Engineer ()

Location: Abu Dhabi UAE
Employment Type: Full-time

NorthBay is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to architect and build scalable APIs and data processing pipelines powering AI-driven systems. The role involves integrating ML models into production workflows managing data orchestration and ensuring the overall reliability security and performance of AI services.

• Design and develop scalable backend services using Python Django Flask and .
• Build and maintain scalable REST and GraphQL APIs.
• Integrate machine learning inference endpoints batch jobs and model serving workflows.
• Collaborate with DevOps and ML engineers to deploy models manage feature stores and handle large datasets.
• Implement secure high-performance backend systems with caching queuing and monitoring.
• Partner with AI engineers to wrap ML models into APIs and deploy them into production environments.
• Develop reusable maintainable modules and implement unit and integration testing.
• Support CI/CD pipelines containerized deployments and cloud-based backend infrastructure.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 5 years of professional backend development experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with Python Django and Flask mandatory.
• Strong experience with and .
• Proficiency in TypeScript REST/GraphQL APIs PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
• Experience designing and implementing scalable and event-driven architectures using Kafka and/or RabbitMQ.
• Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform: AWS or Azure.
• Strong experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with API development backend security performance optimization testing and CI/CD.
• Ability to work closely with AI/ML and DevOps teams to productionize AI solutions.

Optional but Desirable (AI-Focused Skills)

• Experience integrating ML model serving frameworks such as FastAPI Triton or TorchServe.
• Exposure to data pipeline and orchestration tools such as Airflow Kubeflow or Dagster.
• Understanding of AI/ML observability tools such as Prometheus EvidentlyAI or Seldon Core.
• Experience working with ML inference model APIs feature stores or large-scale data processing.