Senior Software Engineer for AI System Evaluation (Remote)

YO IT Consulting; Dubai; On-site; AED 300,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

YO IT Consulting, based in Dubai, UAE, seeks a Senior Software Engineer to perform production-grade AI training and evaluation tasks. You will work across backend, full-stack, and infrastructure, reviewing code, debugging issues, and improving systems for security, performance, and reliability.

You will read unfamiliar code, assess dependencies, and document tradeoffs, architecture decisions, and operational risks while collaborating with distributed teams within a 10–12 hour weekly window.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong understanding of APIs, databases, services, integrations, and architecture.
• Practical knowledge of debugging, testing, version control, and code quality practices.
• Ability to identify technical tradeoffs and explain decisions objectively.

Responsibilities

• Complete advanced software engineering tasks across backend, full-stack, systems, and infrastructure environments.
• Read and understand unfamiliar codebases, technical specifications, dependencies, and application workflows.
• Review code for correctness, readability, maintainability, security, performance, and production suitability.
• Debug application failures, integration issues, database errors, deployment problems, and unexpected runtime behavior.
• Refactor existing implementations to improve structure, modularity, testability, and developer experience.
• Design or evaluate APIs, databases, services, integrations, and distributed application components.
• Analyze architecture decisions and identify their operational and technical consequences.
• Compare alternative solutions and explain tradeoffs involving scalability, reliability, cost, security, and complexity.
• Assess whether implementations meet stated functional and non-functional requirements.
• Review unit tests, integration tests, end-to-end tests, and quality assurance strategies.
• Examine database schemas, queries, indexes, transactions, and data access patterns.
• Evaluate CI-CD pipelines, containers, monitoring, logging, and production operations.
• Identify technical debt, hidden dependencies, edge cases, and failure modes.
• Produce clear documentation covering assumptions, risks, limitations, and recommended improvements.
• Collaborate with the customer ''s team on code reviews, architecture discussions, and problem-solving exercises.
• Adapt quickly to new languages, frameworks, libraries, and development environments.
• Contribute realistic engineering examples that strengthen AI coding and reasoning capabilities.
• Complete assigned work within the agreed 10-12 hours of weekly availability.

Skills

Software engineering

Backend development

Full-stack development

Systems engineering

API design

Code review

Debugging

Performance optimization

Secure coding

Cloud platforms

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Google Cloud Platform

Azure

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

React

Next.js

TypeScript

Node.js

Python

Job description

YO IT Consulting, based in Dubai, UAE, seeks a Senior Software Engineer to perform production-grade AI training and evaluation tasks. You will work across backend, full-stack, and infrastructure, reviewing code, debugging issues, and improving systems for security, performance, and reliability.

You will read unfamiliar code, assess dependencies, and document tradeoffs, architecture decisions, and operational risks while collaborating with distributed teams within a 10–12 hour weekly window.