About the role

Meridian Gulf Digital is hiring a mobile engineer in Abu Dhabi. Mobile is where our product meets people who are standing up, in a hurry and on a connection that comes and goes. App size, cold start and offline behaviour are product decisions here, not optimisations to be done later if there is time.

Salaries in the UAE are advertised and paid MONTHLY and are free of income tax, which makes a straight comparison against an annual European or Indian figure misleading in both directions. Read the range below as what lands each month.

What the work actually looks like

You will ship features through a real release train, including staged rollouts and the occasional decision to hold a build. Alongside that comes the work that never appears on a roadmap: crash triage, startup time, and keeping the app pleasant on devices that are several years old. The role is on-site in Abu Dhabi, which is where the team and most of our customers are.

What we look for

This is a mid-level role. You should already be able to take a loosely specified problem, break it down and ship it without close supervision. We want someone who has shipped to a store and then lived with what they shipped. Native depth or serious cross-platform experience are both fine; caring about what happens between a tap and a frame is not optional.

Working at Meridian Gulf Digital

The working week runs Monday to Friday, the company sponsors employment visas for the successful candidate and their dependants, and relocation is arranged and paid for. The range shown is a MONTHLY figure, which is how this market advertises salaries — it is not an annual number.

Responsibilities

Build and release features through a staged rollout process
Own crash rate, cold-start time and app size for your area
Make offline and poor-connectivity behaviour a first-class part of every feature
Work with backend engineers on API shapes that suit a mobile client
Test on real low-end and older hardware, not only the newest device

Requirements

Shipped and maintained at least one app in a public store
Strong platform knowledge: lifecycle, memory, background execution
Comfortable with automated testing on mobile and with CI for builds
Experience debugging performance and crash reports from real users
Pragmatic about native versus cross-platform trade-offs

Skills

React Native Swift Kotlin REST APIs Mobile Performance CI/CD

Benefits

Tax-free monthly salary
Company-sponsored employment visa for you and your family
Private medical insurance
Annual return flight home and 25 days of leave

Meridian Gulf Digital

Dubai501-1000 peopleDigital Banking

Meridian Gulf Digital is the technology arm of a Gulf retail bank. We build the mobile app, the onboarding flow and the payments rails behind them, serving customers across the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain in Arabic and English.

Everything we ship is bilingual and right-to-left from the first commit rather than as a later translation pass, and everything touching money is reconciled daily. The regulatory bar is high and the engineering culture is built around it.

Our offices are in Dubai Internet City and Abu Dhabi. Salaries here are quoted and paid monthly and are free of income tax, and the company sponsors employment visas and relocation for candidates joining from abroad.

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