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Full-Stack Engineer (AI-Accelerated)

Black Hills Labs
Dubai, UAE
Freelance
Mid
Onsite
Today
TypeScriptPythonReactFastAPIPostgreSQLDocker
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Company Description

  • Black Hills Labs helps startups and established businesses design and build AI driven automation systems they fully own and control.
  • The team focuses on rapid proof of concepts, go to market validation, and practical tools that power sales pipelines, operations workflows, and AI development environments with minimal infrastructure cost.
  • Clients range from fast moving startup founders to growing businesses seeking to replace manual, spreadsheet based processes with straightforward, maintainable systems.

The Role

  • Your first assignment: build a complete operations platform (projects, resourcing, timesheets, invoicing, live dashboards) for an established engineering consultancy in Dubai, part of a large UK construction group.
  • The platform is the first assignment; the role is built to grow into 3D visualization and document intelligence initiatives.
  • Setup: forward deployed engineer, embedded with the client, half engineer, half consultant, full owner.
  • You will work AI first from day one: Claude Code and similar tools are how we hit a two person squad's delivery targets.

What You'll Do

  • Build features across the stack: React + TypeScript front end, Python/FastAPI + PostgreSQL back end.
  • Own the environment end to end: stand the system up on a local server first, then take it to Azure with Microsoft 365 / Entra sign on.
  • Ship weekly in weekly sprints against monthly delivery targets with the client in the room.
  • Use AI coding tools seriously: prompt well, review hard, and turn generated code into clean, tested, documented software.
  • Build on a clean data model from day one, and help move the client off spreadsheets and a legacy SQL system.
  • Work directly with the client's team so what we build actually gets adopted.

How We Work

  • Two person squad: you and Alex, daily. Plan Monday, ship through the week, demo to the client Friday no standup theater.
  • Claude Code is the default way we write code; review is where the craft lives.
  • Documentation as we go, conventional stack, no vendor lock in.

Your First 90 Days

  • Day 30: you've shipped production features on the platform and know the client's team by name.
  • Day 60: you own a module end to end build, deploy, document.
  • Day 90: you run whole slices of the platform with Alex reviewing, not driving.

Must Have

  • 3 to 6 years building and shipping production web software, full stack.
  • Real fluency with AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot or similar): you use them daily, you have opinions about where they fail, and they're how you pick up unfamiliar technology fast.
  • TypeScript and Python you're not embarrassed by; solid SQL.
  • Deployment is part of the job: you can stand up and run a system on a local Linux server (Docker, networking, backups) and deploy the same stack to the cloud.
  • Ownership: you can take an outcome and run, not just a ticket.
  • Based in Dubai with UAE work authorization for the contract phase (own visa or freelance permit); strong written and spoken English.

Nice to Have

  • React, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Azure, Entra/M365 integration.
  • Document data extraction: OCR, computer vision, or LLM pipelines that pull structured data out of drawings, charts, or scanned documents.
  • Unity or other 3D / game engine work, especially visualizing spatial or engineering data.
  • Data migration off legacy systems.
  • Exposure to engineering, construction, or professional services firms.

You Won't Enjoy This If

  • You want a spec handed to you.
  • You want a big team to disappear into.
  • You want to specialize in one stack for years.

The Path

  • This is contract to hire. You start on a 3 month contract with Black Hills Labs, embedded on the build.
  • Do it well and the intended outcome is a permanent offer from the client: you move in house as the owner of the platform you built.
  • If conversion isn't the right fit, there's an extension option with Black Hills Labs on the next build.

Package

  • Contract phase: a straight monthly rate, paid by Black Hills Labs, set on experience (tax free: gross = take home).
  • No benefits wrapper during the contract you keep your own visa and setup.
  • On conversion, the permanent package is negotiated directly with the client as a standard UAE employment offer (visa sponsorship, medical, gratuity, the works).

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