Senior Backend Engineer - Abu Dhabi

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Full-time IT & Technology
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Location
abu dhabi, abu dhabi emirate, United-Arab-Emirates
Posted
July 21, 2026

Job Description

# Senior Backend Engineer - Abu DhabiOn-siteFull-timeL3 — SeniorPosted today### What we're solvingMal is being built to solve the lack of modern, accessible, and AI-powered financial services that are fully Sharia-compliant, targeting the world's nearly 2 billion Muslims and other underbanked communities by offering an AI-native digital banking platform that combines ethical Islamic finance principles with fast, inclusive, mobile-first banking access.## Why this role existsThis is not a maintenance role. These are the specific technical frontiers we are pushing:**Scaling a live enrichment pipeline.** Our Personal Finance Manager ingests open-banking data via Lean Tech webhooks and passes every transaction through a multi-stage enrichment pipeline — Lune for merchant tagging, Claude Haiku for AI-assisted categorisation, and a proprietary rules engine. As user volume grows, latency, accuracy, and throughput need to scale with it.**Deepening financial intelligence.** Beyond categorisation...