Senior Software Engineer
Job Fit Check
Base Career helps you apply smarter for this job.
Key skills for this role
About the Role
CNTXT AI is forming a startup to scale a secure, AI-enabled decision-support platform. The Senior Software Engineer will design and build scalable backend services for data-intensive analytics, working with Python/Java/Go, cloud platforms, and data pipelines.
Key Skills for This Role
Responsibilities
- Design and develop scalable backend services for data ingestion, processing, and analytics
- Architect APIs and services to support analytical workflows and decision support applications
- Build and maintain data pipelines for large, heterogeneous datasets
- Ensure system reliability, performance, and security across environments
- Collaborate closely with scientists, GIS specialists, and data engineers to translate analytical requirements into production systems
- Lead code reviews, contribute to engineering standards, and mentor junior engineers
- Support deployment, monitoring, and troubleshooting of production systems
- Contribute to technical roadmaps and architectural decisions
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field
- 7+ years of professional software development experience
- Strong proficiency in Python and/or Java, Go, or similar backend languages
- Experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs and backend services
- Solid understanding of databases and data storage systems (PostgreSQL, PostGIS, NoSQL)
- Experience with cloud platforms and modern deployment practices
- Experience working with data intensive or analytics driven platforms (desirable)
- Familiarity with geospatial or scientific data workflows (desirable)
- Exposure to AI/ML systems and model integration (desirable)
- Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (desirable)
- Background in startup or R&D focused environments (desirable)
Full Job Posting
Job Role
- A dedicated startup is being formed to industrialize and scale a secure, AI enabled, multi source decision support software offering.
- The platform is a multi sensor fusion and agentic AI solution connecting to diverse data sources (e.g., geospatial layers, imagery, video, and other operational signals).
- The Senior Software Engineer will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining scalable, reliable software systems that support data intensive analytics and decision support applications.
Job Responsibilities
- Design and develop scalable backend services for data ingestion, processing, and analytics.
- Architect APIs and services to support analytical workflows and decision support applications.
- Build and maintain data pipelines for large, heterogeneous datasets.
- Ensure system reliability, performance, and security across environments.
- Collaborate closely with scientists, GIS specialists, and data engineers to translate analytical requirements into production systems.
- Lead code reviews, contribute to engineering standards, and mentor junior engineers.
- Support deployment, monitoring, and troubleshooting of production systems.
- Contribute to technical roadmaps and architectural decisions.
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- 7+ years of professional software development experience.
- Strong proficiency in Python and/or Java, Go, or similar backend languages.
- Experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs and backend services.
- Solid understanding of databases and data storage systems (PostgreSQL, PostGIS, NoSQL).
- Experience with cloud platforms and modern deployment practices.
- Desirable: Experience with data intensive or analytics driven platforms; familiarity with geospatial or scientific data workflows; exposure to AI/ML systems and model integration; experience with containerization and orchestration technologies; background in startup or R&D focused environments.
- Key Attributes: Strong system level thinking and problem solving skills; comfortable owning components end to end; ability to balance speed with code quality; clear communicator.
Apply for this job in 1 click
Skip the repetitive application forms
Install the Base Career Chrome Extension and autofill job applications across major job boards with your profile.
Trusted by over 500,000 job seekers on Base Career
More from this employer
More jobs at CNTXT AI
Senior QA Engineer
Abu Dhabi, UAE
CNTXT AI seeks a Senior QA Engineer to design test plans, perform manual and automated testing for web/mobile applications, and validate Arabic content quality in AI outputs. Requires 5+ years QA experience, native Arabi
Computer Vision Engineer - Egocentric & Robotics Data Pipelines
Abu Dhabi Emirate, UAE
CNTXT AI is hiring a Computer Vision Engineer to build and operate data infrastructure for large-scale robotics and egocentric AI datasets. You will design distributed data-processing pipelines, process multimodal sensor
Commercial Executive
Abu Dhabi Emirate, UAE
CNTXT AI seeks a Commercial Executive to identify new business opportunities, generate qualified sales opportunities, and support the commercial team in achieving revenue objectives. The ideal candidate has 2+ years of e
Data Engineer — Egocentric & Robotics Data Pipelines
Abu Dhabi Emirate, UAE
CNTXT AI is building data infrastructure for AI and robotics. As a Data Engineer, you will design and maintain distributed data-processing pipelines for large-scale egocentric and robotics datasets. You'll work with Pyth
AI Engineer — Speech & Voice Intelligence
Abu Dhabi, UAE
CNTXT is building voice AI infrastructure for the Arabic-speaking world and is looking for an AI engineer or researcher passionate about voice and speech technology. You will work on speech synthesis, recognition, and sp
Lead FullStack Engineer
Abu Dhabi, UAE
CNTXT AI is seeking a seasoned AI Full Stack Tech Lead to own the technical direction of the product engineering team. The role involves architecting backend systems in Node.js, shipping full-stack features with React/Ne
Robotics Data Collector (Qatar)
Doha, QAT
CNTXT AI is seeking a detail-oriented Robotics Data Collector to support the collection of high-quality robotics and egocentric data for training AI models. The role involves hands-on work with robotic systems, sensors,
Robotics Data Collector (Saudi Arabia)
Riyadh, KSA
CNTXT AI is looking for a Robotics Data Collector to support the collection of high-quality robotics and egocentric data used to train AI models. The role involves working hands-on with robotic systems, sensors, and real
Senior QA Engineer
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Computer Vision Engineer - Egocentric & Robotics Data Pipelines
Abu Dhabi Emirate, UAE
Commercial Executive
Abu Dhabi Emirate, UAE
Data Engineer — Egocentric & Robotics Data Pipelines
Abu Dhabi Emirate, UAE
AI Engineer — Speech & Voice Intelligence
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Lead FullStack Engineer
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Robotics Data Collector (Qatar)
Doha, QAT
Robotics Data Collector (Saudi Arabia)
Riyadh, KSA