Staff Full-Stack Software Engineer, (Forward Deployed), GPS
London, UK
Posted 2mo ago
About the job
Scale's Global Public Sector team is focused on using AI to address critical challenges facing the public sector worldwide. As a Full Stack Software Engineer (Forward Deployed), you will collaborate directly with public sector counterparts to quickly build full-stack AI applications that solve their most pressing challenges and achieve meaningful impact for citizens. At Scale, we enable the public sector to transform operations and better serve citizens through cutting-edge technology. If you're ready to shape the future of AI in the public sector and be a founding member of our team, we'd love to hear from you.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the lead technical strategist for public sector engagements, converting ambiguous mission requirements into robust architectural roadmaps and guiding onsite implementation.
- Architect the fundamental frameworks for production-grade AI applications, setting the gold standard for how interactive UIs, backend systems, and AI models are integrated at scale to deliver reliable outcomes.
- Guide the evolution of cloud infrastructure, ensuring security, global scalability, and long-term system integrity across all environments.
- Direct the development of core platforms and shared services, ensuring they solve cross-cutting needs for diverse global client use cases.
- Partner with cross-functional leadership to steer the technical roadmap, mentoring senior and junior staff and ensuring all products align with a cohesive, future-proof technical architecture.
- Bridge the gap between the field and the core platform by turning real-world client lessons into reusable patterns that power the entire engineering team.
Requirements
- Masters or PhD in Computer Science or equivalent deep industry experience in architecting complex, distributed systems.
- 10+ years of full-stack expertise across Python, Node.js, and React.
- Proven track record of designing high-scale architectures on Kubernetes and global cloud infrastructures (AWS/Azure/GCP).
- Expert ability to design and oversee production-grade ecosystems, ensuring world-class standards for system integrity, security, and long-term scalability.
- Extensive experience deploying and troubleshooting sophisticated end-to-end solutions directly within complex, high-security client environments.
- A self-driven leader capable of resolving extreme ambiguity, mentoring senior staff, and setting the technical vision for the organization.
- A driver of asynchronous workflows and documentation-first cultures to streamline global engineering velocity and reduce friction.
- Proficient in Arabic.