Associate Staff Engineer (Nodejs and AI Application Solution Design)

Nagarro; Dubai; On-site; AED 300,000 - 400,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology service provider in Dubai seeks an experienced candidate to develop AI application solutions. The ideal applicant must possess at least 8 years of coding experience in NodeJS, JavaScript, and TypeScript, with a proven track record in implementing AI-powered features. Responsibilities include ensuring quality in technical architecture design, developing scalable APIs, and researching technologies. An understanding of the banking and fintech sectors is preferred.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years of coding experience in NodeJS, JavaScript & TypeScript.
• Experience implementing AI-powered features like chatbot interfaces and language understanding.
• Hands-on experience with cloud and open source LLMs is vital.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the quality of the technical and application architecture across the organization.
• Develop scalable and highly available RESTful APIs using NodeJS.
• Research and benchmark technology against best-in-class technologies.

Skills

TypeScript

Microservices architecture

Node JS

AI Application Solution Design

LLM Application Frameworks

Asynchronous programming patterns

Experience with AI frameworks

Containerization

RESTful APIs

CI/CD principles

Networking security concepts

Tools

Kubernetes

Dockers

Job description

Job Description

Must have Skills

• TypeScript, Microservices architecture (MSA) (Strong), Node JS, AI Application Solution Design (Capable), LLM Application Frameworks (Capable).

Good To Have Skills

Job Description

• Experience Minimum 8 years of coding experience in NodeJS, JavaScript & TypeScript and NoSQL Databases.
• Proven track record of implementing AI-powered features such as chatbot interfaces, language understanding, and summarization.
• Hands‑on experience and understanding of cloud and open source LLMs.
• Experience integrating AI frameworks (e.g., Langchain, LangGraph) into existing or newly built applications to enable advanced language processing.
• Experience with AI Agents (design, orchestration, and integration into real world workflows).
• Good understanding of Model Context Protocol (MCP) or willingness to quickly learn and apply it.
• Understanding of RAG concepts and experience using vector databases for retrieval‑augmented generation.
• Hands‑on experience with OpenShift or similar container platforms (Kubernetes) for orchestration and deployment.
• Architecting and automating the build process for production, utilizing task runners or scripts.
• Knowledge of banking or Retail domains is beneficial—hands‑on experience in performance tuning, debugging, and monitoring.

Technical Skills

• Expertise in developing scalable, highly available RESTful APIs using NodeJS.
• Familiarity with common programming tools such as RESTful APIs, TypeScript, version control software, remote deployment tools, CI/CD tools.
• Familiarity with asynchronous programming patterns, including Promises, async/await, and event‑driven architectures.
• Knowledge in designing, fine‑tuning, and engineering prompts for large language model (LLM)-based solutions, integrating them via APIs or SDKs.
• Familiarity with ORMs and ODMs like Sequelize, TypeORM, or Mongoose for database interaction.
• Knowledge in implementing real‑time communication using WebSockets.
• Working knowledge of Azure AI services, including speech, language, OpenAI, PII detection.
• Well‑versed with CI/CD principles and actively involved in solving and troubleshooting issues in the distributed services ecosystem.
• Understanding of containerization, experienced in Dockers, Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with firewall and network security concepts, including best practices for securing APIs and data in a regulated environment.
• Thorough understanding of the responsibilities of the platform, database, API, caching layer, proxies, and other web services used in the system and Writing non‑blocking code, and resorting to advanced techniques such as multi‑threading, when needed. Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model. Documenting the code inline using JSDoc or other conventions. Ability to create automation test scripts is preferred. Proficient with the latest versions of ECMAScript (JavaScript or TypeScript) Functional Skills. Experience in following best Coding, Security, Unit testing and Documentation standards and practices. Experience in Agile methodology.

Ensure the quality of technical and application architecture and design of systems across the organization.

Experience in Banking, Financial, and Fintech experience in an enterprise environment preferred.

Effectively research and benchmark technology against other best‑in‑class technologies.