Middle Frontend Engineer

About NodeShift

NodeShift is a fast-growing AI infrastructure startup headquartered in Al Maryah Island, Abu Dhabi, the UAE’s most prestigious innovation and financial district with a second office in Qatar Financial Centre (QFC), Doha.

We design and operate sovereign cloud and generative AI platforms for governments, banks, and national enterprises that require full data control and compliance. Our customers include the Ministry of Economy of the UAE, the Qatar Development Bank, and the Central Bank of the UAE, among others.

Our two flagship products:

• NodeShift Sovereign Cloud – a hyper-converged, air-gapped cloud operating system delivering compute, storage, networking, and GPU virtualization fully inside national data centers. It powers national cloud initiatives and internal enterprise clouds across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar.
• NodeShift AI – an enterprise-grade, on-premise generative AI platform featuring 140+ Arabic and English models, built-in governance, and over 80 enterprise integrations, enabling organizations to create secure, private ChatGPT-like environments within their own infrastructure.

Founded by a leadership team from Microsoft, X (formerly Twitter), Tesla, and Cisco, and built by a world-class engineering team including Oxford graduates, NodeShift combines global expertise with regional purpose.

We’re expanding rapidly across the GCC, supporting central banks, ministries, telecoms, and data center operators and shaping the next era of sovereign AI and cloud computing in the region.

Joining NodeShift means joining a team that’s building the infrastructure of national AI sovereignty - innovative, impactful, and proudly homegrown in the Gulf.

Read more about us on TechCrunch.

Role Description

The ideal candidate has experience with React and TypeScript, experience working with designers to build beautiful user interfaces, and has exceptional communication skills (both written and verbal). This position is completely remote, although some amount of overlap with US timezones is required.

Responsibilities:

• Frontend Web Development
• NodeJS microservices development
• Building new ideas from scratch
• Working with product designers and other developers to build and release new features as a team
• Building high-quality, accessible, and performant interfaces using designs and wireframes in Figma
• Working with backend engineers to implement APIs
• Testing your work to ensure high-quality experiences
• Writing reusable libraries and custom logic ensuring solid test coverage
• Participating in code reviews
• Minimizing tech debt while strategically pushing for progress with new features
• Help scale the team and create our engineering culture

Skills:

• 3+ years experience building complex web apps from scratch, using Javascript, React, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Experience with Node.js back-end development (preferably Typescript)
• Experience with test frameworks such as Cypress, Jest or Playwright.
• Degree in Computer Science, required
• Able to meet deadlines deliverables
• You enjoy learning and digging into open source code, committing on other projects
• You can organize yourself well, and can work in an agile manner
• You enjoy a healthy balance between working autonomously and collaborating closely with peers through pairing sessions and architecture design meetings
• You enjoy analyzing solutions and can participate in defining good architecture
• Good written communication in English is essential
• Previous experience working remotely and/or leading teams is a plus
• Previous experience maintaining open source software (particularly libraries and/or frameworks), a plus
• You are passionate about cloud computing and believe in the opportunity of decentralization and blockchains to change how the infrastructure world works today
• You thrive in a startup environment and feel best working in a small, cross-functional team where you can roll up your sleeves and be hands on
• You have an interest in working in a self organizing environment and bring creativity to start your own initiatives

What do we have to offer you?

• Hybrid office / remote-working practices
• Competitive salary and equity
• Learning and Development budget
• 24 days PTO
• Become part of the founding team
• Real career opportunities with opportunity to grow quickly in seniority as the team scales 
• Disrupting the industry and being part of the Web3 revolution
• Work colleagues that are as smart, hardworking and driven with backgrounds from FAANG companies and leading universities
• Transparent company culture, open to feedback where you can wear multiple hats at once