Senior full stack engineer

ELYTS LLC; Dubai; On-site; AED 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

ELYTS LLC in Dubai seeks a Senior Full-Stack Engineer to own features end-to-end across the web stack, from UI to APIs and data models. You will partner with product and design to translate requirements into reliable, well-tested systems, and raise the bar through thoughtful code review and mentorship.

The role requires shipping production software across frontend and backend, with strong opinions on trade-offs, system design, and performance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering in full-stack web apps.
• Strong TypeScript and modern frontend framework proficiency.
• Backend experience with RESTful or GraphQL APIs and relational databases.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and ship customer-facing features end-to-end across frontend, backend, and DB layers.
• Own architecture and roadmap for product areas, with build-vs-buy and scaling decisions.
• Write clean, testable code and participate in code review to ensure quality.
• Define and evolve APIs, data models, and service boundaries with peers.
• Improve engineering productivity via tooling, CI/CD, and workflows.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, providing guidance and career support.
• Collaborate with product and design to surface feasibility and scope.

Skills

TypeScript

React/Next.js

Node.js

Python/Go

PostgreSQL/MySQL

AWS/GCP/Azure

CI/CD & testing

Security best practices

System design

Mentoring/leadership

Job description

About the Role

We are looking a Senior Full-Stack Engineer to own features end-to-end across the web stack — from the user-facing UI through the APIs and data models that power it. You will partner closely with product and design to translate requirements into reliable, well-tested systems, contribute to architectural decisions, and raise the technical bar through thoughtful code review and mentorship. The ideal candidate has shipped production software across both frontend and backend, has strong opinions grounded in trade-offs rather than trends, and is equally comfortable whiteboarding a system design as pairing on a tricky React bug.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and ship customer-facing features end-to-end across the frontend, backend, and database layers.
• Own the architecture and technical roadmap for one or more product areas, making pragmatic build-vs-buy and scaling decisions.
• Write clean, testable code and participate actively in code review to maintain quality across the codebase.
• Define and evolve APIs (REST or GraphQL), data models, and service boundaries in collaboration with peers.
• Improve engineering productivity through better tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and development workflows.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, providing technical guidance and career support.
• Partner with product and design early in the cycle to surface feasibility trade-offs and shape scope.
• Contribute to on-call rotations and own the operational health of services you build.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 3 years building full-stack web applications in production.
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript and a modern frontend framework (React, Next.js, or similar), including state management and performance considerations.
• Solid backend experience with Node.js, Python, Go, or a comparable language — building and operating RESTful or GraphQL APIs.
• Deep familiarity with relational databases (PostgreSQL or MySQL) including schema design, query optimization, and migrations.
• Practical experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and deploying containerized or serverless workloads.
• Working knowledge of testing strategies: unit, integration, and end-to-end.
• Understanding of authentication, authorization, and common web security pitfalls (XSS, CSRF, SQLi, OWASP Top 10).
• Excellent written and verbal communication; able to explain technical trade-offs to non-engineering stakeholders.

Nice to Have

• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CDK, Pulumi) and observability tooling (Datadog, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures, message queues (SQS, Kafka, RabbitMQ), or streaming systems.
• Hands-on work integrating third-party AI/LLM APIs or building AI-assisted product features.
• Contributions to open-source projects or active technical writing / speaking.
• Experience mentoring engineers or leading small engineering pods.