Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Job Category: Information Technology / Software Engineering / Frontend Development
Job Title: Senior Frontend Engineer
Experience
Required:
5–8 years
Contract Duration: 12 months
An opportunity is available for a Senior Frontend Engineer in Abu Dhabi, UAE, for a 12-month contract. The role focuses on owning major frontend areas, building complex user interface workflows, improving performance for data-heavy applications, and mentoring frontend engineers.
The successful candidate will work on data exploration interfaces, dashboards, and administrative tools. They will also optimize interfaces that handle large datasets and real-time updates, contribute to design system architecture, and ensure accessibility and right-to-left (RTL) support across products.
This role is suited to an experienced frontend professional with strong React and Type Script skills, a focus on production-quality interfaces, and the ability to collaborate with and mentor other engineers.
Key Responsibilities- Build and own major user interface workflows, including data exploration, dashboards, and administrative tools.
- Optimize performance for data-heavy interfaces, including tables with more than 10,000 rows and real-time updates.
- Ensure accessibility in line with WCAG AA/AAA requirements and support RTL layouts across products.
- Contribute to the design system by developing design tokens, primitives, and complex components.
- Mentor junior and mid-level frontend engineers and support their professional development.
- Participate in the frontend on-call rotation to help maintain reliable product operations.
Skills and Qualifications
- 5–8 years of frontend engineering experience, with demonstrated ownership of user interface development.
- Proficiency in React and Type Script.
- Experience with state management and frontend performance optimization.
- Experience with accessibility testing tools and techniques in production environments.
- Ability to build user interfaces for cloud-based SaaS deployments.
- Strong preference for experience in design system architecture, RTL and internationalization (i18n), and performance optimization.
- React and Type Script development.
- State management and scalable frontend architecture.
- Performance optimization for large datasets and real-time interfaces.
- Web accessibility and inclusive interface design.
- RTL support and internationalization.
- Design systems, reusable components, and cloud SaaS user interfaces.
Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 12 months
Salary, benefits, working arrangements beyond the stated location, and contract extension possibilities have not been specified in the supplied announcement. Candidates should confirm these details with the recruiter.
Career DevelopmentThis role offers opportunities to deepen expertise in frontend architecture, performance engineering, accessibility, design systems, and complex SaaS applications. Mentoring other engineers also provides scope to strengthen technical leadership and collaboration skills.
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