Senior Backend Engineer

About the job

Analog is building the connective tissue between humans, cities, and technology, out of a single office in Abu Dhabi. Almost everything we build only works if data can move cleanly between a big cloud backend and something physical out in the world: a robot, a sensor, a device at the edge, often over flaky networks and without the luxury of a clean, always-on connection. We need someone who's actually solved that problem before, not just read about it.

What we're looking for, and why

We're scaling fast, and we need someone who can own the hard architectural calls at the cloud-to-edge boundary without needing a large org around them to do it. You've built and run large-scale, in-production backend systems, you've made the real tradeoff decisions yourself (not just implemented someone else's design), and you can look at an ambiguous, half-defined problem and figure out what actually matters first. We're flat: no layers between you and the decision, no one to hand the hard problem up to. That's exactly why we need someone senior here, not less senior, there's no safety net of process to catch a bad call.

What you'll be working on

• Architecting backend systems that move data reliably between our cloud systems and edge/device environments, across multiple network protocols, with real failure tolerance baked in