Remote Lead Developer: AI Product Delivery

CNTXT AI; Dubai; Remote; AED 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Remote work

Job summary

CNTXT AI in the United Arab Emirates seeks a hands-on Lead Developer to own delivery across the engineering team in a remote setup. You will be the technical anchor translating product ideas into shipped features and guiding frontend, mobile, backend, and AI engineers.

You’ll work closely with product to finalize requirements, set sprint goals, and ensure on-time, high-quality releases while mentoring the team and driving architectural decisions across services and integrations.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with 2+ years leading a team or delivery-critical projects.
• Strong production experience with Node.js backend services and React frontends; hands-on React Native experience or willingness to lead mobile delivery.
• Working proficiency in Python, with FastAPI experience.
• Solid experience with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis; design of schemas, indexes and caching for load.
• Hands-on AWS experience: deploying, scaling, monitoring, and cost-optimizing production workloads.
• Proven track record of taking features from rough briefs to production: scoping, estimation, task breakdown, delivery management.
• Strong communication: data-driven challenge to Product; clear guidance to engineers.
• Experience unblocking teams: debugging across stack and architecture decisions.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end delivery lifecycle from requirement finalization to release.
• Refine ambiguous requirements with Product into clear, estimable specs.
• Define sprint scope, timelines, and communicate delivery status and risks.
• Enforce release quality with code reviews, testing standards, and production readiness.
• Assign and prioritize tasks across frontend, mobile, backend, and AI teams.
• Mentor engineers via code reviews, pairing, and design discussions.
• Contribute code to critical parts of the system across stack and drive architecture decisions.
• Champion automation across SDLC: CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, infrastructure as code.

Skills

React

React Native

Node.js

Python

AWS

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Redis

REST API

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

FastAPI

Job description

CNTXT AI in the United Arab Emirates seeks a hands-on Lead Developer to own delivery across the engineering team in a remote setup. You will be the technical anchor translating product ideas into shipped features and guiding frontend, mobile, backend, and AI engineers.

You’ll work closely with product to finalize requirements, set sprint goals, and ensure on-time, high-quality releases while mentoring the team and driving architectural decisions across services and integrations.