Senior Full-Stack Engineer (Web)

Dubai. Posted 12 months ago

The role

A Senior Full-Stack Engineer will own end-to-end feature implementations spanning frontend and backend. You will collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to build web applications and shape engineering culture.

What you will do

Collaborate with product, design, operations, and engineering teams.
Own, develop, and deliver end-to-end feature implementations.
Take features from design to implementation, polish, shipping, monitoring, and measuring progress.
Participate in design discussions to ensure web interfaces are user-friendly, performant, and accessible.
Review code and collaborate with other engineers.
Help shape engineering culture by introducing best practices, tools, and methods of knowledge-sharing.

Required qualifications

5+ years of full-stack development experience, with deeper expertise on the web/frontend side.
Demonstrate high integrity and a team-first mindset.
Take ownership and show initiative, with a strong bias toward action.
Thrive in bringing clarity and structure to ambiguous problems.
Are curious, proactive, and eager to learn and grow.
Communicate clearly and collaborate effectively across teams.
Can define and articulate technical and design requirements.
Write clean, high-quality, testable, and well-documented code.
Think analytically, with strong data-driven decision-making and customer focus.
Based in, or open to relocating to, the UAE

Nice to have

Deep proficiency with React, Next.js, and TypeScript, and comfort working in Node.js/Nest.js on the backend.
Strong eye for UI/UX craft — interaction design, performance (Core Web Vitals), accessibility, and cross-browser/device consistency.
Experience consuming and shaping GraphQL APIs (ideally with a Federation setup) from the client side.
Experience with relational databases like PostgreSQL, and comfort reading/writing backend logic.
Strong understanding of RESTful/GraphQL APIs, web servers, application architecture, and deployment strategies.
A solid grasp of version control tools, preferably Git.

About the company

Ziina has laid a strong foundation upon which they have shipped their product. They are an ambitious team looking to build big things.