Junior Software Engineer (UAE, Arabic speaker preferred)

About the role

Insight360 is seeking a motivated Junior Software Engineer to join its AI and Data department in the UAE. You will start writing production‑ready code from day one, building services, APIs and interfaces that power enterprise systems across the GCC.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop and ship REST endpoints, backend services and front‑end interfaces under architect review.
• Write unit and integration tests as part of development to ensure code quality.
• Follow a Git‑based pull‑request workflow, keep CI pipelines green and respond to code reviews constructively.
• Integrate external APIs handling authentication, pagination, retries, rate limits and failure scenarios.
• Debug across the full stack, analyse logs and traces, and resolve root‑cause issues.
• Leverage AI‑assisted development tools (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot) to accelerate delivery while reviewing and documenting generated code.
• Produce clear documentation, READMEs and API contracts for teammates.
• Participate in design discussions, question decisions and propose alternatives.

Required profile

• Strong foundation in software engineering principles.
• Proficiency in Python (clean, readable, tested code) or equivalent language with ability to become productive in Python quickly.
• Preferably fluent in Arabic.

Required skills

• Python programming
• REST API development
• Git version control
• CI/CD pipelines
• Unit and integration testing
• API integration and error handling
• Debugging across stack
• AI‑assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot)