Senior Backend Engineer

Overview

Job Description: Senior Backend Engineer

Abu Dhabi

The opportunity

Presight, an ADX-listed public company limited by shares whose majority shareholder is Abu Dhabi company G42, is the region’s leading big data analytics company powered by Artificial Intelligence (“AI”). It combines big data, analytics, and AI expertise to serve every sector, of every scale, to create business and positive societal impact. With its world-class computer vision, AI, and omni-analytics platform as its engine, Presight leverages all-source data to support insight-driven decision making that shapes policy and creates safer, healthier, happier, and more sustainable societies.

Position Overview: Presight is seeking an innovative, creative and experienced Backend Engineer to build the structure of advanced software applications by writing flawless business logic, server scripts, and APIs.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will design business specific software components and modules using appropriate modelling techniques in line with agreed software design standards, patterns, and methodology.

• Data modeling from external sources and loading into application database (ETL).
• Code optimization to enhance performance, stability and resilience of services.
• Investigating data sources with complex structures, including binary formats, which may be only partially documented.
• Formulating precise questions to clarify assumptions with the data provider.
• Designing and implementing efficient transformation logic to convert the raw data into a usable format.
• Deploying solutions to production.
• Verifying its correctness and stability in a real-world environment.
• Resolution of production incidents and post-mortem analysis.
• Working with ML Engineers to help them build scalable and fail-proof services.
• Comply with QHSE (Quality Health Safety and Environment), Business Continuity, Information Security, Privacy, Risk, Compliance Management and Governance of Organizations policies, procedures, plans and related risk assessments.
  
  

Qualifications

Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering or related field.
• Designing, building and supporting data intensive network services and jobs last 5+ years.
• Handson experience on Java, Spring boot, big data/Hadoop, Docker, microservices development – a MUST
• Developing applications for NoSQL, working with weak schema definitions, partitioning, partially available systems and unreliable networks.
• Integrating with 3rd party systems using various protocols (queues, SQL, file based, gRPC, RESTful).
• Supporting software on production, including logs and metrics analysis, adjusting configuration, collaborating with the SRE team.
• Work with frontend team to collaborate on the API and data formats design.
• Nice to have – Javascript, Hive, Kubernetes, Python, Cloud Platform experience.
  
  

Skills Needed

• Strong knowledge of algorithms and data structures.
• Strong experience with Python and exposure to other languages like Java or Golang or C++.
• Very good understanding of Elasticsearch (queries, indices structure, mappings).
• Deep understanding and strong practical skills with Kubernetes and containerized software.
• Experience with message queues, preferably RabbitMQ but also SQS, Kafka, etc.
• Hand-on experience with any SQL database.
• Strong analytical mindset with a drive to dig deep into complex problems.
• A natural curiosity and persistence in exploring data and solving problems at their core.
• Comfortable working with ambiguity and exploring multiple layers of information.
  
  

Ideally, you’ll also need

Exposure to ML concepts and understanding key aspects of ML powered services (GPUs, pre/post processing, tensors, frameworks of deep learning PyTorch, serving layers).

What We Look For

If you are a performance-driven, inquisitive mind with the agility to adapt to ambiguity, you will fit right in. You should be eager to explore opportunities to build meaningful collaborations with stakeholders and aspire to create unique customer-centric solutions. Bias for action and a passion to conquer new frontiers in the AI space is at the heart of the Presight community.

What Working At Presight Offers

Culture: An open, diverse and inclusive environment with a global vision that encourages personal growth and focuses on ground-breaking, industry-first innovations.

Career: Accelerate your career through high-impact projects and access to resources for continuous growth and learning opportunities.

Rewards: A competitive remuneration package with a host of perks including healthcare, education support, leave benefits and more.