We're looking for a hands-on Lead Developer (Remote) to own delivery across our engineering team. This is not a pure people-management role — you'll be the technical anchor who turns  product ideas into shipped features. You will work directly with the Product team to finalize and scope requirements, break  them  into well-defined tasks, assign work across frontend, mobile, backend, and AI engineers, unblock  the team daily, and be accountable for on-time, high-quality delivery.

If you enjoy sitting at the intersection of product, architecture, and execution — and you've shipped AI-powered products at scale—this role is for you.

What You'll Do

Delivery Ownership

• Own the end-to-end delivery lifecycle: requirement finalization → technical design →task  breakdown → sprint  execution → release.

• Work closely  with Product to refine ambiguous requirements into clear, estimable, technically sound specifications before development begins.

• Define sprint  scope, set  realistic timelines, and communicate delivery status, risks, and trade-offs to stakeholders proactively.

• Be accountable for release quality — code reviews, testing standards, and production readiness are yours to enforce.
  
  

Team  Leadership

• Assign and prioritize tasks across the team (frontend, mobile, backend, AI, QA) based on skill, capacity, and delivery priorities.

• Identify and resolve blockers fast  — whether technical (architecture decisions, third-party  API issues, infrastructure problems) or process-related (unclear requirements, cross-team dependencies).

• Run daily standups, sprint  planning, and retrospectives; keep the team focused and shielded from noise.

• Mentor engineers through code reviews, pairing, and design discussions; raise  the technical bar of the team.
  
  

Hands-On  Engineering

• Contribute code to the most critical or complex parts of the system — you should be comfortable jumping into any layer of the stack.

• Drive architecture decisions across services: API design,  data modeling,  caching strategy, queueing, and service boundaries.

• Design and review integrations with third-party  APIs (travel, payments, messaging, calendar providers).

• Champion automation across the SDLC  — CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, infrastructure as code, and internal  workflow automation.
  
  

Our Tech Stack

• Frontend: React (web) and React Native (mobile)  — component-driven architecture, shared code across platforms, modern state management

• Mobile: React Native (iOS-first) — native module integration, deep  links, app store releases

• Backend:  Node.js — REST / event-driven microservices

• AI Services: Python  with FastAPI — LLM orchestration, agentic workflows,  RAG pipelines

• Databases: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis — polyglot persistence across transactional, document, and caching layers

• Infrastructure: AWS (ECS/EKS, Lambda,  S3, RDS, SQS/SNS, CloudWatch)

• Automation: Heavy investment in workflow automation, CI/CD, and agent-driven task execution
  
  

What We're Looking For

Must-Have

• 8+ years  of software engineering experience, with 2+ years  leading  a team or acting  as tech  lead on delivery-critical  projects.

• Strong  production experience with Node.js backend services and React frontends; hands-on experience with React Native mobile apps (or strong willingness to lead mobile delivery). experience building or leading  React Native mobile apps.

• Working proficiency in Python, with experience building or reviewing FastAPI services.

• Solid experience with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Redis — you know when to use  each and how to design schemas, indexes, and caching strategies that hold up under  load.

• Hands-on AWS experience: deploying, scaling,  monitoring, and cost-optimizing production workloads.

• Proven  track record of taking features from a rough product brief to production —including scoping, estimation, task  breakdown, and delivery management.

•  Strong  communication skills: you can push  back on Product with data, explain trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders, and give engineers clear, actionable direction.

• Experience unblocking teams: debugging across the stack,  making  pragmatic architecture calls, and negotiating scope when timelines are tight.
  
  

Strong  Plus

• Experience with automation-heavy systems — workflow engines (n8n, Temporal, Airflow), browser/task automation, or agentic AI pipelines.

• Experience building or operating LLM-powered products: prompt engineering, RAG, vector  databases, agent orchestration frameworks (LangGraph,  LangChain),  or LLM observability (LangFuse, Datadog).

• Familiarity with event-driven architectures and message queues (SQS, Kafka, RabbitMQ).

• Experience integrating third-party  APIs at scale — payments (Stripe), messaging (WhatsApp/Twilio), travel, or calendar providers.

• Infrastructure as code (Terraform, CDK) and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes/EKS).

• Experience shipping React Native apps to the App Store / Play Store — Expo, native modules, deep  links, or OTA updates.

• Prior experience in a fast-moving start up or 0→1 product environment.
  
  

What We Offer

• Competitive salary

• The chance to build a category-defining AI product from the UAE for a global audience.

• High ownership, small  team,  direct impact — your decisions ship to hundreds of thousands of users.

• Modern  tooling and an automation-first engineering culture.