Senior Backend Developer
OrbicTrade
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 firm's 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 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 with deploying software into client-owned environments
Experience working to ISO 27001 or similar security standards
