Posted 3 months ago
Engineering Lead
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Engineering Lead at Spidersilk in Dubai. Leads backend and full-stack development, architecture, and AI agent productionization for a sovereign cybersecurity platform.
About this role
Who We Are!
Back in 2019, spiderSilk was born with a bold idea: build a regional, sovereign cybersecurity IP that could stand tall on the global stage.
Our mission? To shake up the way organizations protect their ever-changing digital worlds with continuous, intelligent, and autonomous security that doesn’t miss a beat.
We’re a global mix of curious minds, problem-solvers, and passionate builders, all united by one goal: making the internet a safer place for everyone. Around here, we thrive on vision, energy, and a strong sense of ownership.
If this feels like your kind of crew, you’ll probably fit right in.
About the role
Past projects you would have led:
Building AI Autonomous Agentic production-ready framework
Optimizing the latency of complex database queries in SQL DB or Elastic
Adding Redis queues and a worker container to our stack to execute async tasks
Come up with a new architecture for our ingestion pipeline with the goal to increase throughput and cut cost
Building SDKs or APIs with high focus on DX
Requirements
You should be familiar with a majority of these but we trust that you can pick up a new tech stack quickly.
AI Agents frameworks - Agno, CrewAI, Langchain
Backend in Java Spring, Python FastAPI / Flask / Django
Elastic, Mongo, MySQL, Redis, S3
Kafka
Frontend in React Typescript
Qualifications
Experience in maintenance of highly reliable and scaling infrastructure as well as building AI Agents scalable and production-ready solutions (with context engineering, evals, monitoring)
Strong leadership skills
5+ years of experience in backend or full-stack development
Enthusiastic about leveraging AI in product development
Hard worker and thrive working and leading a small and accountable team
Previous startup or founding experience
Bonus
Experience with or interest in API, SDK design and DX
AI experience
Impressive achievements from previous careers or side projects
Skills
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