1001ai — Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Category: Full-Stack | Priority: P0 | Headcount: 1
About the role
Owns the application layer of one of our deployments end-to-end.
1001ai is an early-stage startup (~12 people, mostly engineers) building "Scale AI meets Palantir"-style capabilities for heavy-infrastructure clients across aviation, sports, construction, and defense. The core engineering team is largely ex-Scale AI. Roles are based across London and the GCC (Qatar, UAE), with Qatar as the priority location; exceptional candidates can flex on location but should be open to international travel.
Responsibilities
- Own one deployment's application end-to-end (e.g. the leasing product or the next vertical).
- Take customer requirements through to a shipped, stable product surface.
- Drive consistency, quality, and stability across the application as it evolves.
- Set the engineering bar for the application layer and mentor more junior full-stack hires.
Requirements
- 6+ years building production web applications end-to-end (frontend + backend).
- Senior-level autonomy - owns a product surface solo.
- Strong with TypeScript / React and a modern backend stack (Node, Python, or Go).
- Production experience with relational databases, API design, and cloud deployment.
- High bias to ship - comfortable prototyping with customers and hardening afterwards.
- Track record at a top-tier tech company, top startup, or forward-deployed engineering org.
- Bonus: experience with B2B enterprise deployments.
What we value across all engineering hires
- Comfortable in a high-ownership early-stage environment where scope is broad and changes quickly.
- Ships production systems; prior enterprise deployment experience is a major plus.
- Strong engineering judgement over knowledge of one exact tool or framework.
- Pragmatic tradeoffs between speed, quality, security, and maintainability.
- Uses AI coding agents effectively to accelerate implementation but remains fully accountable for code quality, architecture, security, and maintainability.
- Comfortable with hybrid / on-prem / sovereign cloud enterprise deployments.
- A high-performance, "work hard" culture - intense but not toxic.