Senior AI-Native Full-Stack Engineer

• Role-AI-Native Full-Stack Engineer
• Exp-10+ Years
• Location-Dubai
• Notice Period- Immediate -30 Days
• Mandatory Skills: React, TypeScript, Java 17+, Spring Boot 3.x, Full-Stack Development, REST APIs, Microservices, PostgreSQL, GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes/OpenShift, GitOps, Automated Testing, AI-Assisted Development, Claude Code/GitHub Copilot, Spec-Driven Development, Prompt Engineering, Production Support, OWASP Security, OAuth2/OIDC

Seniority

• Senior (10+ years)
• Minimum 4–5 years writing and running production code
• Plus: Experience working with a bank or another regulated financial institution

Team & Mission

This role does both: builds the platform and proves it in production delivery.

What They Deliver

• Complete business features end-to-end, from specification through to release, across digital banking channels.
• Write specifications, build code, write tests, and ship to production.
• Dogfood the Agentic SDLC platform.
• Feed defects and gaps back to the platform team.
• Help other squads adopt the platform.

Full-Stack Scope — Mandatory

Genuinely full-stack and non-negotiable: the same engineer owns the React screen, the Spring Boot service behind it, the data model, the pipeline, and the production support of what they ship.

• Front-end-only or back-end-only specialists are not a fit for this role.
• Candidates should be able to walk through a feature they personally built across every layer.
• Frontend

• React (mandatory)
• TypeScript
• Component design
• Responsive UI
• Figma-to-code
• Accessibility
• Cross-browser behaviour

Backend

• Java 17+ / Spring Boot 3.x (mandatory)
• NodeJS (Express, Next.js etc.)
• Python
• Microservices
• DB design and modelling for backends
• REST and event-driven APIs
• OAuth2 / OIDC
• PostgreSQL
• Kafka / IBM MQ

DevOps

Own their service pipeline:

• GitHub Actions
• Docker
• Kubernetes / OpenShift
• GitOps
• Automated testing
• Observability
• On-call ownership of what they ship

Banking Production Experience — Pluses / Nice to Have

• Demonstrable experience writing production-grade code in a bank or regulated financial institution — systems handling real customers, real money movement, and real regulatory exposure.
• Comfortable with the operating discipline that comes with it:
• Formal change management and approvals
• Segregation of duties
• Release windows and rollback plans
• Audit evidence and traceability
• Production incident handling and RCA
• Exposure to core banking, payments, cards, lending or channel integration is strongly preferred.

Security Engineering — Must Have

Understands the security bar a bank operates at and codes to it by default:

• OWASP Top 10
• Parameterised queries
• Input validation and output encoding
• Server-side authorisation and least privilege
• Vetted cryptography
• Secure session and token handling
• Secrets managed through a secrets manager — never hardcoded, logged or committed
• Dependencies vetted
• SAST, DAST and SCA treated as part of definition of done
• Careful with customer data:
• PII minimisation and masking
• Data residency
• No production data in lower environments

Spec-Driven Development — Must Have

• Hands-on experience with Spec-Driven Development: writing a precise, reviewable specification before code, treating the spec as the source of truth, and generating implementation and tests from it.
• Familiarity with SDD tooling and workflows, for example GitHub Spec Kit, Kiro, or Claude Code spec workflows.
• Keeping spec, tests and code in sync as requirements change.
• Can write acceptance criteria that are unambiguous enough for an agent to implement and for a reviewer to verify.

AI Tooling — Must Have

• Claude Code or GitHub Copilot used daily
• Spec-based development
• AI-generated tests
• Skill-file authoring
• Prompt engineering
• MCP tool use
• Reviews agent output critically and knows where human judgement must stay in the loop.

Forward-Deployed Engineering — Must Have for FDEs

Experience working as a Forward Deployed Engineer or equivalent embedded role:

• Sitting with the users or client teams
• Understanding their workflow first-hand
• Building and shipping against it
• Staying to drive adoption
• Running discovery sessions
• Demos
• Enablement workshops
• Office hours
• Unblocking other teams
• Feeding what they learn back into the platform backlog

Measured on adoption and outcomes, not just delivered tickets.

Interpersonal and Stakeholder Skills — Must Have

• Strong communicator who can move between audiences: fellow engineers and architects, and non-technical stakeholders in business, product, operations, risk, compliance and audit.
• Influences without authority — builds credibility, wins over sceptics of AI-assisted delivery, and drives change in engineering habits across squads.
• Strong collaborator:
• Constructive in code review
• Generous with knowledge
• Comfortable with disagreement
• Able to explain trade-offs in plain language to squads or other stakeholders

Nice to Have

• React Native
• Apache Camel K
• Flowable BPM
• UAE banking domain knowledge
• CBUAE security awareness
• Experience introducing a developer platform or new engineering practice at scale
• Public technical writing or speaking