AI Engineer — Lead / Senior
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About the Role
NeoStats is seeking Lead and Senior AI Engineers for a banking client in Dubai. The role involves designing and building production-grade digital banking applications using AI-assisted engineering tools.
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Responsibilities
- Use AI assisted engineering tools such as Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, or similar platforms to accelerate delivery
- Build responsive web applications using TypeScript, React, and Node.js
- Develop reusable UI components, API driven journeys, and progressive web applications
- Build or support native mobile capabilities using Swift for iOS and Kotlin for Android
- Integrate digital channels with secure backend services and enterprise APIs
- Apply secure coding practices across web, mobile, and backend development
- Provide technical leadership across engineering squads or workstreams (Lead specific)
Requirements
- Strong experience building secure, scalable digital products in banking, fintech, or regulated enterprise environments
- Hands on experience with AI assisted engineering tools such as Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, or similar
- Strong experience with TypeScript, React, Node.js, responsive web application development, reusable UI component development, API driven application development, and progressive web applications
- Native mobile development experience using Swift for iOS and Kotlin for Android
- Ability to work across frontend, backend services, APIs, authentication, validation, error handling, performance, observability, and release readiness
- Understanding of secure coding, accessibility, automated testing, CI/CD, and production quality engineering
- Banking and fintech experience is strongly preferred
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Role Title & Context
- Role Title: AI Engineer — Lead / Senior
- Location: Onsite — Dubai, UAE
- Engagement Type: 1 year contract, extendable for similar periods
- NeoStats is looking for Lead and Senior AI Engineers for a banking client in the UAE.
- The role is onsite in Dubai and focuses on building modern, secure, scalable digital banking channels across mobile, web, tablet, and progressive web application experiences.
Key Responsibilities
- AI assisted Engineering: Use AI assisted engineering tools such as Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, or similar platforms to accelerate delivery; Apply AI tools for rapid prototyping, code generation, refactoring, automated test creation, documentation, and code reviews; Evaluate AI generated code
- Web and Frontend Development: Build responsive web applications using TypeScript, React, and Node.js; Develop reusable UI components, API driven journeys, and progressive web applications; Implement responsive, accessible, and performant user interfaces across devices; Work with design systems and t
- Mobile Development: Build or support native mobile capabilities using Swift for iOS and Kotlin for Android; Support cross platform journeys, prototypes, or internal applications using Flutter, where applicable; Ensure mobile experiences meet banking grade standards for performance, usability, securi
- Backend, APIs, and Platform Integration: Work across frontend, backend services, APIs, authentication, validation, observability, and release readiness; Integrate digital channels with secure backend services and enterprise APIs; Implement robust error handling, logging, monitoring, and operational
- Secure and Regulated Delivery: Apply secure coding practices across web, mobile, and backend development; Support accessibility, automated testing, CI/CD, design system adoption, and production release standards; Build solutions suitable for regulated financial services environments; Contribute to t
- Lead specific Responsibilities: Provide technical leadership across engineering squads or workstreams; Guide senior and mid level engineers on architecture, coding standards, reviews, and delivery quality; Own key technical decisions and ensure engineering alignment with business outcomes; Support e
Required Skills & Experience
- Strong experience building secure, scalable digital products in banking, fintech, or regulated enterprise environments.
- Hands on experience with AI assisted engineering tools such as Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, or similar AI coding assistants.
- Strong experience with TypeScript, React, Node.js, responsive web application development, reusable UI component development, API driven application development, and progressive web applications.
- Native mobile development experience using Swift for iOS and Kotlin for Android.
- Ability to work across frontend, backend services, APIs, authentication, validation, error handling, performance, observability, and release readiness.
- Understanding of secure coding, accessibility, automated testing, CI/CD, and production quality engineering.
- Experience working with design systems and translating product designs into working applications.
- Strong problem solving, debugging, documentation, and stakeholder communication skills.
- Banking and fintech experience is strongly preferred and considered highly important for this role.
Preferred Qualifications
- Vue.js experience.
- Flutter experience for cross platform journeys, prototypes, or internal applications.
- Experience with cloud native development, preferably on Microsoft Azure.
- Familiarity with identity, access management, API security, encryption, logging, monitoring, and DevSecOps practices.
- Experience delivering customer facing banking channels, onboarding journeys, servicing flows, payments, cards, or digital self service journeys.
- Experience working in consulting, client delivery, or large enterprise transformation programs.
What Success Looks Like
- Secure, scalable, and production ready digital banking features are delivered on time.
- AI assisted engineering tools improve speed without compromising quality, security, or maintainability.
- Code quality, automated testing, documentation, and release readiness meet banking grade expectations.
- Applications perform reliably across web, mobile, tablet, and PWA channels.
- Engineering teams work effectively with product, design, QA, security, and client stakeholders.
- For Lead candidates, engineering quality improves through strong technical guidance, reviews, and delivery ownership.
Why NeoStats
- NeoStats is a premier Data & AI consulting firm delivering end to end transformation services — from strategy to execution across the UAE, Singapore, Middle East, and India.
- We help enterprises unlock sustainable competitive advantage by transforming and monetizing data assets.
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