Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer, (Forward deployed), GPS

Scale's Global Public Sector team uses AI to address critical challenges facing the public sector worldwide. As a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer (Forward Deployed), you'll collaborate with public sector counterparts to build full-stack AI applications, solving pressing challenges and achieving meaningful impact for citizens.

You will:

• Partner with public sector clients to scope, collect feedback, and implement solutions for complex problems, including spending up to two weeks per month in client offices for feedback and delivery.
• Architect production-grade applications integrating AI models with full-stack frameworks, managing interactive UIs to backend APIs and systems.
• Deploy and manage infrastructure within cloud environments, ensuring system integrity, security, scalability, and long-term reliability.
• Contribute to core platform features designed for diverse international client use cases.
• Partner with design, product, and data teams to build robust applications aligned with the broader technical architecture.

Ideally you'd have:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related quantitative field.
• 5+ years of post-graduation, full-stack engineering experience with proficiency in React, TypeScript, Next.js, Python, Node.js, PostgreSQL or MongoDB, and hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and Azure/AWS/GCP.
• Proven ability to architect scalable, production-grade applications with a strong handle on cloud environments and infrastructure health.
• Experience working directly within customer infrastructure to deploy, maintain, and troubleshoot complex, end-to-end solutions.
• A self-starting approach with technical maturity to navigate ambiguous requirements and deliver reliable software.
• Driven async communication methodologies to reduce communication frictions.
• Experience building solutions with LLMs and a deep understanding of the overall Gen AI landscape.

Nice to haves:

• Proficient in Arabic.
• Past experience working in a forward-deployed engineer or dedicated customer engineer role.
• Experience working cross-functionally with operations.