Staff Full-Stack Architect — Platform & UI Leader

ai71; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 360,000 - 600,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working environment

Career growth opportunities

Competitive compensation

Job summary

AI71 is seeking a Lead/Staff Full-Stack Engineer to set technical direction across frontend and backend for a critical platform area. You will own multiple services, drive architecture decisions, and mentor engineers across teams while delivering both SaaS and air-gapped on-prem solutions.

The role requires 10+ years of full-stack experience with architectural ownership, deep Python and React proficiency, and a track record of leading major technical initiatives end-to-end.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of full-stack engineering with architecture ownership.
• Strong system design at the architecture level for backend or frontend.
• Proficiency in Python and React.
• Mentorship record across frontend and backend.
• Experience leading major technical initiatives end-to-end.
• Comfort with platforms that run in both managed SaaS and on-prem/disconnected environments.
• Air-gap/on-prem delivery architecture experience.
• Experience scaling engineering orgs.

Responsibilities

• Define the architecture for a critical platform area, spanning API/service design and frontend architecture.
• Lead major technical decisions: framework choices, data models, deployment patterns, and design system direction.
• Mentor senior engineers across frontend and backend disciplines; raise the engineering bar across multiple teams.
• Drive cross-team initiatives that improve reliability, security, developer velocity, and UI quality.
• Partner with product and design on multi-quarter technical and UX strategy.
• Operate as a tech lead for major full-stack projects (no people management).
• Ensure platform and UI decisions support both SaaS and on-prem operating models.

Skills

Full-stack engineering

Architectural ownership

Python

React

Mentorship

SaaS & on-prem

Tools

Python

React

Job description

AI71 is seeking a Lead/Staff Full-Stack Engineer to set technical direction across frontend and backend for a critical platform area. You will own multiple services, drive architecture decisions, and mentor engineers across teams while delivering both SaaS and air-gapped on-prem solutions.

The role requires 10+ years of full-stack experience with architectural ownership, deep Python and React proficiency, and a track record of leading major technical initiatives end-to-end.