Senior Full-Stack Engineer — Founding AI-Driven Drug Discovery

VentureOne; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Education allowance

Free on-site meals

Annual flight allowance

Health coverage

Relocation support

Well-being activities

Job summary

Quantafold is seeking a hands-on Senior Full Stack Engineer to design scalable architectures, build pipelines, and deliver MVPs with real customer validation. The role requires deep experience across front-end, back-end, APIs, databases, and cloud infrastructure, plus a proactive stance in security and system reliability.

You will work with React, Next.js, TypeScript on the front-end and Node.js/Python/Java on the back-end, shaping API contracts, data models, and deployment patterns while

Qualifications

• Proven ability to lead technical direction of complex systems with multiple stakeholders.
• Strong front-end experience with React, Next.js, TypeScript, and performance optimization.
• Strong back-end experience with Node.js, Python, Java, service design, and API development.
• Deep understanding of system design, distributed systems, data modeling, and caching.
• Experience with OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SSO, RBAC, ABAC, JWT and secure sessions.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, or vector stores.
• Cloud deployment on AWS/Azure/GCP, plus Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD and IaC.
• Secure software development, OWASP risks, secrets management and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of pipelines, full stack products, MVPs and internal tools.
• Translate ambiguous business problems into technical architecture and milestones.
• Design front-end apps using React/Next.js/TypeScript; build scalable back-end services.
• Define APIs, data models, auth flows, and integration patterns.
• Build secure, scalable APIs (REST, GraphQL, OpenAPI) with proper observability.
• Work with relational and NoSQL databases and ensure data integrity.
• Architect for logging, tracing, metrics, dashboards, and reliability.
• Collaborate with AI engineers to integrate AI capabilities into products.
• Guide architectural reviews, code reviews, and testing strategies.
• Support MVP improvements based on feedback and performance data.
• Participate in hiring, mentoring, and engineering capability building.

Skills

Full stack

Platform engineering

Technical lead

React

Next.js

TypeScript

Node.js

Python

Java

System design

OAuth 2.0

OIDC

RBAC

JWT

PostgreSQL

MySQL

MongoDB

AWS

Azure

GCP

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Security best practices

Unit testing

Integration testing

API testing

End-to-end testing

MVP development

Communication

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenAPI

REST

GraphQL

Job description

Quantafold is seeking a hands-on Senior Full Stack Engineer to design scalable architectures, build pipelines, and deliver MVPs with real customer validation. The role requires deep experience across front-end, back-end, APIs, databases, and cloud infrastructure, plus a proactive stance in security and system reliability.

You will work with React, Next.js, TypeScript on the front-end and Node.js/Python/Java on the back-end, shaping API contracts, data models, and deployment patterns while