Senior Backend Developer

Job description / Role

OrbicTrade is an AI-enabled front-office and risk platform built specifically for commodity traders. It captures deal intent at source, turns it into structured, integration-ready trades, and connects with existing CTRM, ERP, and data platforms.

Traders, trade control, operations, and risk teams use OrbicTrade across crude and products, LNG, metals and concentrates, and agriculture. We do not replace the CTRM. We are the intelligent layer that works with a firms existing technology, from deal capture and confirmation through to Value at Risk.

We are looking for an experienced senior backend developer to join our growing product team in Dubai.

Requirements

You will build the services behind OrbicTrade: AI extraction, trade workflow, validation, integration, and risk. Trades pass through these services on their way into clients core systems, so accuracy, auditability, and recovery matter as much as speed.

You will work closely with front-end engineers, business analysts, application support, and client technology teams. This is a hands-on role covering design, development, and production ownership.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain secure, scalable backend services and REST APIs.
• Develop the AI extraction pipeline that turns emails, chats, and documents into structured trade data.
• Implement grounding, validation, and confidence scoring using reference data and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
• Build workflow services for review, four-eyes approval, confirmations, amendments, and trade versioning.
• Develop integrations with CTRM, ERP, contract-management, market-data, and data-lake platforms.
• Build asynchronous processing with queues, webhooks, retries, idempotency, and reconciliation.
• Design and maintain PostgreSQL data models, including the canonical trade model and audit trail.
• Support the VaR module, including position feeds, market data, and overnight risk runs.
• Run services on AWS using containers, with secure deployment patterns that also suit client-hosted AWS or Azure environments.
• Build logging, monitoring, and alerting into every service.
• Apply secure engineering practices across authentication, authorisation, encryption, and secrets management.
• Write automated tests and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
• Support root-cause analysis and resolution of production issues as an L3 escalation.
• Participate in design reviews and provide technical guidance to other developers.

Required experience

• At least 7 years of hands-on backend development experience.
• Strong development experience in Python, with frameworks such as FastAPI.
• Experience designing and operating REST APIs and event-driven or asynchronous systems.
• Strong SQL and PostgreSQL skills, including data modelling and performance tuning.
• Production experience on AWS, including ECS or similar, Aurora, S3, IAM, KMS, and Secrets Manager.
• Experience with Docker, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code.
• Experience integrating enterprise systems, including mapping, error handling, and reconciliation.
• Experience with OAuth2, role-based access control, and secure coding practices.
• Experience supporting production systems and troubleshooting complex technical issues.
• Experience with automated testing, version control, and structured software-development processes.

Preferred experience

• Experience building LLM applications using services such as Amazon Bedrock or Azure OpenAI.
• Experience with RAG, prompt evaluation, and measuring extraction accuracy.
• Experience in commodity trading, energy, capital markets, or financial-services technology.
• Understanding of the trade lifecycle across front-, middle-, and back-office functions.
• Experience integrating with E/CTRM platforms such as Endur, Allegro, RightAngle, Aspect, or Eka.
• Exposure to market-risk calculations such as Value at Risk.
• Experience with Azure and deploying software into client-owned environments.
• Experience working to ISO 27001 or similar security standards.