About Tabadulat
We are a retail Islamic brokerage start-up based in Abu Dhabi, UAE, with a mission to provide a world-class trading and investing platform for the Muslim community in the GCC region and beyond. We also power banks and financial institutions that want to offer trading inside their own apps and platforms. Our products are built on a microservices-driven architecture for simplicity, reliability, and scalability.
About the role
We are looking for an Engineering Lead to run our Console team. Console runs as a product engineering delivery model: small, product-minded teams that own problems end to end, from understanding the business need to shipping and operating the solution. The team builds the experiences that customers, partners, operators, and the business use every day: mobile and web trading experiences, partner APIs and portals, internal operations tools, reporting, and customer communication. A core part of this role is building AI agents and the MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers that connect them to our platform: you will lead the design and delivery of agents that reason over our data and help with trading, operations, and customer workflows, always with strong safety controls and human oversight. You will set technical direction, grow and mentor the team, and work closely with other engineering teams to ship secure, reliable products. We are an AI-first team and expect you to use modern AI platforms and tools to move faster and raise quality.
We are looking for people who are genuinely interested in solving business challenges, not just writing code. You will work directly with product, operations, compliance, and partner teams to understand real problems and deliver measurable outcomes.
What you will do
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of engineers, and set engineering standards.
- Run a product engineering delivery model: work with the business to frame problems, prioritise by impact, and ship in small, well-monitored releases.
- Design and build AI agents: agent runtimes, tool integrations, evaluation and testing, monitoring, and guardrails.
- Build and maintain MCP servers that expose our platform capabilities to AI agents and AI clients securely, with least-privilege access, authentication, and audit logging.
- Make sure agents act through our standard APIs with proper permissions, human approval on important actions, and full traceability.
- Own the technical roadmap and architecture for customer-facing, partner-facing, and internal products.
- Build and ship mobile and web experiences with React Native and React.
- Design and maintain secure, well-documented, versioned APIs using Node.js and Java.
- Deliver secure multi-tenant products with strong data isolation and access control.
- Support partner integrations from testing through go-live.
What we are looking for
- 8+ years in software engineering, with 3+ years leading engineers.
- A product and business mindset: you are driven by solving business challenges and measure success by outcomes, not output.
- Hands-on experience building LLM-based applications and AI agents (tool use, orchestration, retrieval, evaluation) with modern AI platforms and frameworks.
- Experience designing and building MCP servers or similar tool and API layers for AI agents.
- Strong experience designing event-driven systems (message queues and event buses) and applying domain-driven design (DDD) to model complex business domains.
- Strong experience with React Native and mobile app development, plus React for web.
- Solid backend experience with Node.js (TypeScript) or Java Spring, building and scaling APIs and distributed systems.
- Experience building multi-tenant B2B platforms, ideally in fintech, banking, brokerage, or payments.
- A security-first approach to data protection, access control, and auditability, including safe and responsible use of AI.
- A practical, AI-first mindset: you actively use AI coding tools and can guide a team to do the same.
- Clear communication with engineers, partners, and business stakeholders.
Nice to have
- Trading, investing, or wider fintech domain knowledge.
- Experience with agent evaluation, simulation, or testing harnesses.
- Experience building embedded or white-label products and SDKs.
- Experience with NestJS, gRPC, and event-driven systems.
- DevOps familiarity (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS).
- Experience in the MENA region or with financial regulators.
What we offer
- Competitive salary and benefits package.
- The opportunity to work on a cutting-edge platform with global ambitions.
- A collaborative and dynamic work environment.
- Professional growth and development opportunities.
