Senior Full Stack Engineer — Lead Web & Mobile Apps

Institute for Healthier Living Abu Dhabi; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 360,000 - 480,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Career progression opportunities

Access to cutting-edge cloud/dev tools

Onsite in Abu Dhabi

Job summary

Institute for Healthier Living Abu Dhabi is seeking a Senior Full Stack Engineer to design, build, and maintain full stack web and mobile applications from Abu Dhabi in an onsite environment. You will own end-to-end engineering processes in lean teams, including DevOps, QA, and external partner handovers.

You will work with Django, React, and React Native to deliver secure, scalable solutions across web and mobile platforms, with cloud infrastructure on Azure and CI/CD pipelines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of software engineering with hands-on full stack development.
• Proficiency in Python and JavaScript/TypeScript with Django and React.
• Ability to deliver independently within small teams with limited DevOps/QA support.
• Experience reviewing/owning apps built by external partners, including maintenance.
• Experience deploying and troubleshooting cloud-hosted apps, preferably on Azure.
• Proven CI/CD experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI.
• Strong REST APIs, authentication, authorization, secure coding, and observability.
• Experience with React Native and mobile releases.
• Experience automated testing across backend, web, and mobile.
• Docker hands-on experience.
• Ability to diagnose end-to-end issues via logs and monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain full stack applications using Django, React, and related frameworks.
• Take end-to-end responsibility for deployment, monitoring, and support of production systems.
• Review code delivered by external development partners, ensuring quality and ongoing maintenance.
• Build, configure, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate testing, deployment, and rollback procedures.
• Operate, monitor, and troubleshoot cloud-hosted applications, especially on Azure.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and stakeholders to deliver high-impact user experiences on web and mobile.
• Diagnose and resolve issues across the stack—frontend, backend, database, and integrations.
• Contribute to mobile application development and releases using React Native for both iOS and Android platforms.
• Champion secure coding practices and reliable integration patterns.

Skills

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

Django

React

React Native

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

CI/CD

Docker

REST APIs

Security

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering or related

Tools

Docker

Terraform

Kubernetes

Azure

Job description

Institute for Healthier Living Abu Dhabi is seeking a Senior Full Stack Engineer to design, build, and maintain full stack web and mobile applications from Abu Dhabi in an onsite environment. You will own end-to-end engineering processes in lean teams, including DevOps, QA, and external partner handovers.

You will work with Django, React, and React Native to deliver secure, scalable solutions across web and mobile platforms, with cloud infrastructure on Azure and CI/CD pipelines.