Engineering Lead

Salt • Python • 10 days ago

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In office (Dubai)

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Staff · 8+ years exp

Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Sep 29, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 18, 2026. Salt scores C on the Alion truth index.

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Founded in 2009, Salt is a global digital talent, recruitment, and workforce consultancy specializing in technology, creative, marketing, and sales staffing. Headquartered in London, United Kingdom - with an international network of offices spanning North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America - the agency serves fast-scaling startups, mid-market companies, and multinational enterprises. Through its permanent and contract recruitment models, recruitment process outsourcing (RPO), nearshore/offshore talent delivery (Salt: Labs), and strategic HR advisory services, it enables organizations to build, scale, and manage high-performing teams across AI, technology, and digital transformation initiatives.

welovesalt.com • HQ: London, United Kingdom • Recruiting & Staffing • Human Resources • Professional Services • 201-500 employees • Est. 2009

My client is a fast-growing AI company building real-time AI Voice, Agentic AI and Computer Vision products, and they’re looking for a hands-on Engineering Lead to help scale the engineering team from ~7 to 20 people.

What they’re looking for: 8+ years of software engineering experience

2+ years leading engineers with genuine hiring & people-management responsibility

Strong Python/backend engineering experience

Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, GitOps & observability

Experience building and operating high-scale, real-time or distributed systems

Production experience with AI/ML/LLM systems, model serving or GPU infrastructure

Comfortable with architecture, code reviews, debugging production incidents and still writing code

Proven experience hiring, developing and managing engineering teams

Dubai-based / willing to work office-based Experience with WebRTC/SIP, voice AI, computer vision, sovereign/on-prem deployments or regulated environments would be a strong plus.

This is not a traditional management role - the ideal person

Reports to: CTO

Salt is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

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