Software Engineer, Traders Experience (AI-Native)
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About the Role
NEXT Ventures is hiring a Software Engineer to lead the Trader Experience Squad in Dubai. The role involves full-stack development with PHP/Laravel and Next.js, mobile app development, and AI-native engineering practices.
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Responsibilities
- Own and improve the end to end trader journey across the client dashboard and mobile applications
- Lead development of the mobile app experience across iOS and Android, ensuring performance and feature parity
- Architect and maintain scalable backend systems using PHP/Laravel alongside frontend systems built with Next.js
- Design high performance APIs, notification systems, and event driven workflows supporting large scale user activity
- Lead sprint planning, technical decision making, delivery execution, and cross squad coordination
- Leverage AI native engineering workflows using tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, or similar AI coding agents
- Mentor engineers and drive a culture of ownership, scalability, and continuous improvement
Requirements
- 6+ years of full stack software engineering experience, including leadership or squad management responsibilities
- Strong expertise in PHP/Laravel, Node.js, and Next.js for building scalable customer facing platforms
- Proven experience building high traffic web or mobile applications with strong focus on UX, reliability, and performance
- Strong database architecture and optimization skills using MySQL or PostgreSQL in production environments
- Experience with notification systems, payment or checkout flows, onboarding/KYC systems, and customer journey optimization
- Ability to lead sprint execution, mentor engineers, and manage cross functional stakeholder collaboration
- Mandatory hands on experience with AI native engineering workflows and modern AI coding agents
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Who We Are
- NEXT Ventures is a global platform revolutionising access to performance based capital, empowering the world’s most driven individuals to rise.
- Through our flagship brand, FundedNext, we empower dreamers to become doers, with 500+ driven minds across five countries and 220,000+ daily users from 170+ nations.
How You’ll Make an Impact
- Own and improve the end to end trader journey across the client dashboard and mobile applications.
- Reduce dashboard related support tickets by identifying product friction points and delivering scalable fixes.
- Drive improvements across onboarding, KYC, purchase, checkout, and account management experiences.
- Lead development of the mobile app experience across iOS and Android, ensuring performance, reliability, and feature parity with the web platform.
- Design and optimize purchase and checkout flows including one click repurchase, offer visibility, and conversion focused user journeys.
- Build scalable customer facing experiences with high standards for usability and reliability.
- Architect and maintain scalable backend systems using PHP/Laravel alongside frontend systems built with Next.js.
- Design high performance APIs, notification systems, and event driven workflows supporting large scale user activity.
- Optimize database performance, caching strategies, and platform responsiveness for high traffic trading environments.
- Lead sprint planning, technical decision making, delivery execution, and cross squad coordination.
- Collaborate closely with Growth, Payment, Risk, Product, and Design teams to ensure seamless platform experiences.
- Establish engineering standards, code review practices, and maintainable architecture across the squad.
What You Bring
- 6+ years of full stack software engineering experience, including leadership or squad management responsibilities.
- Strong expertise in PHP/Laravel, Node.js, and Next.js for building scalable customer facing platforms.
- Proven experience building high traffic web or mobile applications with strong focus on UX, reliability, and performance.
- Strong database architecture and optimization skills using MySQL or PostgreSQL in production environments.
- Experience with notification systems, payment or checkout flows, onboarding/KYC systems, and customer journey optimization.
- Ability to lead sprint execution, mentor engineers, and manage cross functional stakeholder collaboration.
- Experience in fintech, prop trading, trading platforms, or similar high scale digital products is highly preferred.
- Mandatory hands on experience with AI native engineering workflows and modern AI coding agents.
Your X Factor
- Strong product engineering mindset with the ability to translate support pain points into scalable product improvements.
- Proven track record leading high impact customer facing platforms in fast moving environments.
- Ability to balance technical scalability, delivery execution, and user experience simultaneously.
- AI native approach to engineering with demonstrated productivity gains through agentic workflows.
Your Journey after Applying
- 30 minute HR interview with the Talent Acquisition team member.
- Assessment stage.
- 45 minute Problem Solving Interview.
- 60 minute Bar Raiser Interview.
Why Join NEXT
- At NEXT Ventures, we believe the right talent fuels breakthrough innovation.
- If you're driven to connect great minds with big ideas and want to shape the future of fintech, we’d love to meet you.
- Join our team of bold thinkers where technology meets transformation.
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