Senior Software Engineer - Node.js (TypeScript)

About the role

Genesis, a software development company, is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to ship significant features across its stack. The position is based onsite in Abu Dhabi, with three days a week spent in the office. The company wants a proactive engineer who takes initiative, raises the bar for the team and enjoys solving hard technical problems.

Key responsibilities

• Design and ship significant features end to end
• Own non-trivial technical decisions, document them clearly and defend them
• Work with client development teams and stakeholders on integration design, sequencing and delivery
• Set the standard on code quality and review code substantively across the team
• Mentor other engineers through pairing, design review and direct feedback
• Take part in production incident response and post-incident analysis
• Contribute to platform-wide work

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field (preferred)
• Experience building production systems in TypeScript/Node.js
• Strong fundamentals in data structures, concurrency and distributed-system failure modes
• Comfortable working across organizational boundaries and translating between technical and business framing

Required skills

• TypeScript and Node.js
• SQL, including indexing and query plans
• React.js experience, or a strong willingness and ability to learn it
• Experience operating services in production: logging, metrics, alerting and on-call
• Confidence in code review, including constructive pushback on senior peers
• Effective use of AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor and Copilot

Desired: fintech, banking or regulated-industry background, and experience with both TypeScript/Node.js and React.