Senior Software Engineer - AI & ML

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain AI-powered full-stack features and internal tools for Property Finder's marketplace.
• Develop and operate scalable backend services and APIs for AI/ML workloads using Python, Golang, or Node.js.
• Productionize ML and GenAI solutions including RAG pipelines, recommendation and ranking services, classification, scoring, and enrichment pipelines.
• Implement and evolve AI/ML platform components: feature and embeddings stores, vector/semantic search infrastructure, evaluation dashboards, prompt/version management, and feedback loops.
• Own services end-to-end: design, implementation, monitoring, observability, on-call and incident response to ensure high availability and reliability.
• Collaborate with Product, Data Science, Data Engineering, Design, and DevOps/SRE to translate business problems into robust technical solutions.
• Apply cloud-native and DevOps best practices using AWS, containerization (ECS/EKS), CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Implement security, data protection, and responsible AI guardrails for safe and compliant model and data usage.
• Participate in code reviews, drive engineering best practices, and mentor other engineers to raise team capability.

Requirements

• 7+ years
• Backend systems
• Python/Golang
• Node.js
• AWS experience
• Cloud-native
• Distributed systems
• Observability
• CI/CD pipelines
• MLOps knowledge
• Vector DBs
• RAG experience
• SQL/NoSQL
• Kubernetes
• Ownership mindset

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience deploying transformer models or fine-tuning large models in production
• Hands-on with vector search technologies (Pinecone, Weaviate, Milvus, OpenSearch, etc.)
• Familiarity with feature stores and embeddings management
• Experience with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Terraform or similar IaC tools
• Prior work in consumer-facing marketplaces or high-scale data platforms

Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based rewards
• Annual leave and paid time off
• Comprehensive health and family medical insurance
• Annual flights / ticket allowance
• Visa sponsorship and support
• Learning and development opportunities

About the Company

Property Finder is the leading property portal in the Middle East and North Africa, headquartered in Dubai, UAE. Our mission is to change living for good by connecting millions of property seekers with real estate professionals through a trusted, data-driven platform. We operate small, empowered cross-functional teams that take ideas from inception to production. Property Finder values innovation, ownership, and impact — fostering a collaborative environment where engineers and data scientists build real AI-driven products used across the region.