Senior Backend / Platform Engineer (Hands-on, On-site Dubai)

Dubai Tax Free3 days agoFull-time External
Negotiable
We are building a global real estate infrastructure platform. Not a local portal. Not a marketplace clone. We are looking for a hands-on Senior Backend / Platform Engineer who codes every day, understands complex systems deeply and wants to own the technical core of a long-term platform. This is not a role for people who mainly delegate or sit in meetings. What you will do? • Work hands-on on the backend codebase daily • Take ownership of: • data models • property identity logic • ingestion & normalization pipelines • event-driven workflows • Review and technically control an external development team • Gradually bring core knowledge fully in-house • Later: build and lead a small internal team by teaching through code Skills • 7+ years backend / platform engineering experience • Actively coding in recent years • Strong in data modeling, APIs, async systems • Independent thinker, pragmatic, reliable • Someone who enjoys building, not supervising Important We are explicitly not looking for “former engineers” or pure managers. This role requires daily hands-on work in the code.