Senior Full-Stack Engineer (Proptech)

Tech Stack

Salary

About The Role

Key Responsibilities

• **Backend ownership -**
• Own the Node.js/Express API layer.
• Refactor the monolithic Admin controller into maintainable domain-separated modules over time.
• **Security remediation -**
• Fix identified vulnerabilities as a first priority: unsanitised $regex search inputs, file upload MIME validation, and JWT token handling improvements.
• **Feature development -**
• Build and iterate on core platform features: property listing workflows, rewards tier logic, digital Form A/B signing integration, member dashboard APIs.
• **Web panel development -**
• Maintain and extend the four Angular 17 panels.
• Implement new features consistently across admin and user-facing interfaces.
• **Database -**
• Own MongoDB schema design, query optimisation, and indexing strategy as the platform scales toward production load.
• **Integrations -**
• Lead third-party integrations: document signing (DocuSign/Adobe Sign), DLD property verification API, push notifications via Firebase, and future partner APIs.
• **Code quality -**
• Write well-tested, reviewed code.
• Participate in code review culture.
• Help establish and maintain test coverage targets, particularly for trust-critical flows.
• **DevOps collaboration -**
• Work with the team on CI/CD pipelines, deployment processes, and infrastructure concerns.

Must Have

• **5+ years**
• of professional software engineering experience.
• **Existing residence**
• in the United Arab Emirates.
• **Node.js / Express**
• strong, production-level experience.
• You are comfortable reading and improving a large existing codebase, not just greenfield projects.
• **MongoDB**
• schema design, aggregation pipelines, indexing.
• You understand the performance implications of your queries.
• **TypeScript**
• used across Angular panels and increasingly in backend code.
• You are fluent.
• **Angular**
• sufficient experience to build and maintain Angular 17 components, services, and routing without being blocked.
• **REST API design**
• you understand what makes an API maintainable, versioned, and secure.
• **Security awareness**
• you can identify injection vulnerabilities, understand JWT security, and apply OWASP principles without being told to.
• **Git discipline**
• branch strategies, meaningful commit messages, pull request culture.
• Nice to Have:
• **Dubai real estate**
• understanding of DLD processes, Form A/B, or UAE PropTech.
• **Redis / Bull**
• caching strategy and background job processing — both already in use in the platform.
• **AWS**
• S3, SSM Parameter Store, CloudFront — the platform runs on AWS.
• **PDF generation**
• pdf-lib is already a dependency; experience with programmatic document generation is valuable.
• **Socket.io**
• real-time messaging is part of the platform.
• Experience with WebSocket-based architectures is useful.

Interview Process

• **Stage 1**
• Code review exercise (1 hour) — we share a real excerpt from our codebase and ask you to review it as you would in a pull request.
• **Stage 2**
• Take-home paid task (2-3 hours) — implement a small feature or fix against a simplified version of our API.
• We care about code quality, not speed.
• **Stage 3**
• Final conversation —a mixture of technical (e.g. specific Node.js and MongoDB questions) as well as cultural aspects such as team fit, compensation, start date.