Full Stack Software Engineer (Forward Deployed)- 6-8 Months Contract

Our Client's International Public Sector team is focused on using AI to address critical challenges facing the public sector around the world.

Our 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.

You will:

• Partner with public sector clients to scope, collect feedback and implement solutions for complex problems, including spending up to two weeks per month in client offices for feedback and delivery.
• Architect production-grade applications that integrate AI models with full-stack frameworks, managing everything from interactive UIs to backend APIs and systems.
• Deploy and manage infrastructure within cloud environments, ensuring the highest levels of system integrity, security, scalability, and long-term reliability.
• Contribute to core platform features designed to be reused across diverse international client use cases.
• Partner with design, product, and data teams to build robust applications aligned with the broader technical architecture.

Ideally you’d have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related quantitative field
• 5+ years of post-graduation, full-stack engineering experience with demonstrated proficiency in React (required), TypeScript, Next.js, Python, Node.js, PostgreSQL or MongoDB plus hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and Azure/AWS/GCP.
• Proven ability to architect scalable, production-grade applications with a strong handle on cloud environments and infrastructure health.
• Experience working directly within customer infrastructure to deploy, maintain, and troubleshoot complex, end-to-end solutions.
• A self-starting approach with the technical maturity to navigate ambiguous requirements and deliver reliable software.
• Driven async communication methodologies to reduce communication frictions

Nice to haves:

• Proficient in Arabic
• Past experience working in a forward deployed engineer / dedicated customer engineer role
• Experience working cross functionally with operations
• Experience building solutions with LLMs and a deep understanding of the overall Gen AI landscape