Senior Full-Stack Engineer (Python, React, LLM Orchestration

The Role

What You Will Do

• Refactor the existing Python codebase into a modular FastAPI (or similar) backend with clean separation of concerns
• Build a modern frontend in React + TypeScript to replace the current interface
• Architect and deploy the platform on AWS or Azure, including authentication (SSO/JWT), secrets management, audit logging, and multi-tenant capability
• Optimise the multi-model AI orchestration layer — handling retries, timeouts, rate limits, cost monitoring, and graceful degradation when a model API fails
• Implement observability: logging, monitoring, alerting, and regression testing for the AI pipeline
• Harden the platform for enterprise security review (encryption at rest and in transit, role-based access control, data retention policies)
• Work directly with the founder to translate customer requirements into product decisions

Required Skills

• **5+ years of production Python.**
• Deep, not surface-level.
• FastAPI, async, Pydantic, modern packaging.
• **Hands-on LLM orchestration experience.**
• You have shipped a product using OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google AI APIs in production — not just experimented with them.
• You understand prompt engineering, multi-model routing, cost optimisation, and failure handling.
• **Modern frontend skills.**
• React + TypeScript, comfortable with state management, modern build tooling, and integrating frontend with backend APIs.
• **Cloud infrastructure depth.**
• AWS or Azure, including IAM, secrets management (Key Vault, Secrets Manager), containerisation (Docker), and basic CI/CD.
• **Enterprise security instinct.**
• You think about secrets management, audit logs, and data handling on day one — not after the security review fails.
• **Version control and engineering hygiene.**
• Git fluency, clean commit history, code review culture, awareness of code quality tools.
• Bonus Skills (not required, but a strong plus)
• Computer vision or video processing experience (OpenCV, ffmpeg, frame extraction)
• Experience with media forensics, content authentication, or trust and safety products
• Prior work at an early-stage startup, ideally as a founding or early engineer
• Familiarity with MENA enterprise procurement and security review processes
• SOC 2 or similar compliance framework exposure

Who You Are

• You are a builder. You ship.
• You communicate clearly and ask good questions before writing code.
• You push back when you disagree, and you accept decisions when they are made.
• You take ownership of the platform's reliability and security as if it were your own product.
• You are comfortable in a small, fast-moving environment with no playbook.

The Setup

• Full-time, exclusive engagement
• Dubai-based, or able to work on overlapping Gulf hours with regular in-person availability
• Reports directly to the founder
• Start date: immediately