Staff Software Engineer - Full Stack

Tanqeeb; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

AI71 in Abu Dhabi seeks a Lead/Staff Full-Stack Engineer to drive technical direction across frontend and backend for a critical platform area. You will own multiple services and UI surfaces, steer architecture decisions, and mentor engineers while delivering across SaaS and on-prem environments.

You bring 10+ years of full-stack experience, deep Python and React skills, and a track record of leading initiatives end-to-end in distributed systems and design systems.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering experience across frontend and backend.
• Demonstrated architectural ownership and cross-team leadership.
• Proficiency in Python and React and designing scalable systems.
• Experience delivering both SaaS and on-prem environments.

Responsibilities

• Define architecture for critical platform areas, spanning API/services and frontend.
• Lead major technical decisions: framework choices, data models, deployment patterns.
• Mentor senior engineers across frontend and backend disciplines.
• Drive cross-team initiatives to improve reliability, security, and velocity.
• Partner with product and design on multi-quarter technical and UX strategy.
• Serve as tech lead on large full-stack projects without people management.

Skills

Full-stack engineering

Architectural ownership

Python

React

Mentorship

System design

Distributed systems

Frontend architecture

Job description

About AI71

AI71 builds enterprise-grade AI and data platform software for organizations operating in regulated, mission-critical environments.

Our solutions are delivered in two deployment modes:

• Managed SaaS — multi-tenant, cloud-hosted, continuously updated.
• On-premises — single-tenant installs in customer data centres, including fully disconnected and air-gapped environments.

Full-stack engineering at AI71 means building both the APIs and the interfaces that have to work in the cloud and behind a firewall, with bilingual UI support on one side and disconnected, air-gapped delivery on the other.

The Role

As a Lead / Staff Full-Stack Engineer you set technical direction across both the frontend and backend of a critical platform area. You own multiple services and the UI surfaces built on top of them, lead architecture decisions spanning the full stack, mentor engineers across teams, and drive engineering excellence. You are a force multiplier.

What You'll Do

• Define the architecture for a critical platform area, spanning API / service design and the frontend architecture that consumes it.
• 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 (without people management responsibility).
• Ensure platform and UI decisions support both SaaS and on-prem operating models.

What You'll Bring

• 10+ years of full-stack engineering with history of architectural ownership across frontend and backend.
• Strong system design at the architecture level in your primary discipline (backend: distributed systems, API architecture; or frontend: component and rendering architecture at scale), with credible fluency across the other.
• Deep proficiency in Python and React.
• Mentorship record in your primary discipline, with the credibility to review and guide work on the other side of the stack.
• Track record of leading major technical initiatives end-to-end.
• Deep comfort with platforms that run in both managed SaaS and on-premises / disconnected environments.
• On-prem / air-gap delivery experience at the architecture level.
• Design system leadership alongside backend architecture ownership.
• Leading technical initiatives that affect multiple teams across disciplines.
• Experience scaling engineering orgs that combine frontend and backend disciplines.

Nice to Have

• Open-source maintainership.
• Conference speaking, technical writing, or industry thought leadership.
• Arabic language skills.

Why AI71

• Mission-Driven Work: Work on cutting-edge AI applications with a talented and passionate team, solving real-world challenges in critical sectors.
• Unparalleled Opportunity: This is a chance to innovate and solve real-world challenges using AI at a company with unique access to world-leading models and resources.
• Career Growth: We offer competitive compensation, benefits, and significant career growth opportunities as a foundational member of the team.
• World-Class Environment: Enjoy a flexible working environment and the latest tools & technologies needed to do your best work.