Location
Doha, Qatar
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About
Our client, a growing International Public Sector team, is focused on using AI to address critical challenges facing the public sector around the world. The core work consists of:
- Creating custom AI applications that will impact millions of citizens
- Generating high-quality training data for custom LLMs
- Upskilling and advisory services to spread the impact of AI
As a Full Stack Software Engineer (Forward Deployed), you’ll collaborate directly with public sector counterparts to quickly build full-stack, AI applications to solve their most pressing challenges and achieve meaningful impact for citizens.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the lead technical strategist for public sector engagements, converting ambiguous mission requirements into robust architectural roadmaps and guiding onsite implementation.
- Architect the fundamental frameworks for production-grade AI applications, setting the gold standard for how interactive UIs, backend systems, and AI models are integrated at scale to deliver reliable outcomes.
- Guide the evolution of cloud infrastructure, ensuring security, global scalability, and long-term system integrity across all environments.
- Direct the development of core platforms and shared services, ensuring they solve cross-cutting needs for diverse global client use cases.
- Partner with cross-functional leadership to steer the technical roadmap, mentoring senior and junior staff, and ensuring all products align with a cohesive, future-proof technical architecture.
- Bridge the gap between the field and the core platform by turning real-world client lessons into the reusable patterns that power the entire engineering team.
Requirements
- Masters or Ph.D. in Computer Science or equivalent deep industry experience in architecting complex, distributed systems.
- 10+ years of full-stack expertise across Python, Node.js, and React, with a proven track record of designing high-scale architectures on Kubernetes and global cloud infrastructures (AWS/Azure/GCP).
- Expert ability to design and oversee production-grade ecosystems, ensuring world-class standards for system integrity, security, and long-term scalability.
- Extensive experience deploying and troubleshooting sophisticated end-to-end solutions directly within complex, high-security client environments.
- A self-driven leader capable of resolving extreme ambiguity, mentoring senior staff, and setting the technical vision for the organization.
- A driver of asynchronous workflows and documentation-first cultures to streamline global engineering velocity and reduce friction.
- Proficient in Arabic.
Nice to haves
- Past experience working at a startup as a CTO or founding engineer or in a forward deployed engineer / dedicated customer engineer role.
- Experience working cross-functionally with operations.
- Proven track record of building LLM-driven solutions with the strategic foresight to anticipate landscape shifts and architect future-proof systems.
