IKAI

Front-End Developer (React/Node.js) – IKAI

Location: Remote / Dubai, UAE (flexible)

Experience: 3–4 years

Employment Type: Full-time

About IKAI

IKAI is an AI-powered platform that transforms the way consulting firms and enterprises build proposals and presentations. We combine cutting-edge AI with seamless user experiences to help teams work smarter, faster, and with higher impact.

We are looking for a Front-End Developer with strong expertise in React and Node.js who is passionate about creating sleek, high-performing interfaces and building interactive AI-driven features. If you’re excited about shaping the future of AI-enabled productivity tools, we’d love to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain scalable front-end applications using React and supporting technologies
• Collaborate with back-end and AI engineers to integrate APIs and AI-driven services (e.g., chat interfaces, recommendation engines)
• Implement intuitive UI/UX flows for business users, ensuring seamless user journeys
• Optimize applications for performance, responsiveness, and cross-browser compatibility
• Contribute to design and development of components that enable AI-assisted workflows (e.g., smart text completion, interactive chat)
• Work with visualization frameworks to enable interactive presentation views and dashboards
• Collaborate closely with the product team to transform business requirements into elegant technical solutions
• Participate in code reviews, testing, and continuous improvement of development practices

Requirements

• 3–4 years of professional experience in front-end development
• Strong proficiency in React.js and related libraries (e.g., React Query, Tailwind, ShadCN)
• Solid understanding of JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML5, and CSS3
• Experience with Node.js for front-end build tooling and back-end integration
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs and working with asynchronous data flows
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced startup environment
• Good communication and collaboration skills

Nice-to-Haves (Bonus Points)

• Experience building AI-powered front-end features (chatbots, AI assistants, generative AI interfaces)
• Familiarity with presentation visualization tools (e.g., integrating with PowerPoint, building slide renderers, or charting libraries like D3.js/Chart.js)
• Knowledge of modern state management frameworks (e.g., Recoil, Zustand)
• Prior experience in enterprise SaaS or productivity tools

What We Offer

• Opportunity to work on an innovative AI-first product from the ground up
• Flexible remote/hybrid work environment
• Growth potential in a fast-scaling startup
• Exposure to cutting-edge AI technologies and enterprise use cases
• Collaborative, entrepreneurial, and impact-driven culture

Location: Remote / Dubai, UAE (flexible)

Experience: 4–5 years

Employment Type: Full-time

About IKAI

IKAI is an AI-powered platform revolutionizing how consulting firms and enterprises create proposals and presentations. We leverage state-of-the-art AI to accelerate document development, enhance storytelling, and optimize client impact.

We are looking for a Back-End Engineer with strong TypeScript experience to join our growing team. The ideal candidate will bring solid backend engineering skills, experience with data-intensive applications, and curiosity to push the boundaries of AI integration (agents, retrieval-augmented generation, fine-tuning).

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services in TypeScript (Node.js)
• Architect and implement secure APIs for front-end and client integrations
• Work on AI-related features such as:
• Agents for automating workflows
• RAG pipelines for knowledge retrieval
• Model fine-tuning & orchestration for domain-specific tasks
• Optimize data processing pipelines for performance and reliability
• Contribute to building services that manage and process presentation-related content (PPTX, slides, templates, visual assets)
• Collaborate with front-end engineers, AI specialists, and product managers to deliver end-to-end features
• Ensure best practices in code quality, testing, CI/CD, and security

Requirements

• 4–5 years of professional experience in back-end engineering
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript/Node.js
• Experience building and maintaining RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs
• Solid understanding of databases (SQL/NoSQL) and designing efficient data models
• Hands-on experience with cloud services (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Strong debugging, performance optimization, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, startup environment

Nice-to-Haves (Bonus Points)

• Familiarity with AI frameworks including LangChain
• Experience with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines
• Exposure to fine-tuning LLMs or integrating foundation models into production systems
• Experience with document parsing
• Experience with Mastra framework
• Prior work with presentation or document-processing systems (e.g., pptx generation, slide parsing, template management)
• Knowledge of microservices architecture and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Background in enterprise SaaS or B2B productivity platforms

What We Offer

• Chance to build core backend infrastructure for an innovative AI-first platform
• Work alongside a multidisciplinary team (AI engineers, consultants, product experts)
• Flexible and collaborative work environment (remote/hybrid)
• Opportunity to experiment with and implement cutting-edge AI workflows
• Competitive compensation and growth opportunities in a fast-scaling startup

Fractional CTO – IKAI

Location: Remote / Dubai, UAE (flexible)
Experience: 10+ years (including 3–5 years leading teams/architecture)
Employment Type: Fractional (part-time, contract/retainer)

About IKAI

IKAI is an AI-powered platform transforming how consulting firms and enterprises build proposals and presentations. We combine secure, on-prem/virtual-private deployments with cutting-edge AI (RAG, agents) and a delightful UX to help teams work smarter, faster, and with higher impact.

The Role

We’re hiring a Fractional CTO to set technical direction, ship product with a small team, and establish the engineering practices that will carry IKAI from MVP to enterprise scale. You’ll own architecture and delivery across our React/TypeScript front end and TypeScript/Node back end, guide AI integration (RAG, agents, orchestration), and build the foundations for reliability, security, and cost-efficient scale.

Responsibilities

• Architecture & Roadmap
  • Define and evolve the platform architecture (FE/BE/services, data, LLM/RAG layers, observability) aligned to product milestones.
  • Select and standardize core technologies (TypeScript/Node, React, vector DBs, orchestration frameworks, CI/CD, IaC).
• AI Platform & Productization
  • Lead integration of LLMs (RAG, agents, prompt/eval loops, safety/guardrails), vector search, and slide/document pipelines.
  • Establish latency, cost, and quality targets; implement caching, streaming, and evaluation harnesses.
• Security, Compliance & Data Governance
  • Set baselines for tenant isolation, encryption, secret management, audit logging, and access controls (SSO/SAML/OIDC/RBAC).
  • Chart a practical path toward SOC 2/ISO 27001 readiness and UAE/EU data-sovereignty expectations.
• Delivery Excellence
  • Define SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and release processes; stand up monitoring/alerting (OpenTelemetry/Prometheus/Grafana/Sentry).
  • Drive code quality (standards, reviews, testing strategy, performance budgets).
• Team Leadership
  • Manage and mentor the FE Developer (React/Node) and BE Engineer (TypeScript/AI); grow a pragmatic hiring plan.
  • Run lightweight rituals (planning, tech reviews, incident/post-mortems) and coach for ownership and speed.
• Hands-On Contribution
  • Pair program on critical paths; review PRs; prototype tricky pieces (e.g., streaming APIs, RAG evaluators, PPTX pipelines).
• Stakeholder & Customer Facing
  • Join key partner/client calls, translate requirements into technical plans/SOWs, and de-risk enterprise deployments.
• Vendor & Cost Management
  • Evaluate build-vs-buy; negotiate vendor terms; monitor cloud/GPU/token spend and optimize for unit economics.

Requirements

• Proven leadership: 10+ years in software engineering with 3–5+ years as CTO/Head of Engineering/Principal Architect in SaaS or data/AI products.
• Full-stack depth: Expert in TypeScript/Node.js and strong command of React fundamentals; comfortable reading/writing Python for data/LLM tooling.
• AI in production: Built or led systems with RAG/agents, embeddings/vector search, prompt/eval pipelines, and streaming UX.
• Cloud & DevOps: Solid with AWS/Azure/GCP, Docker/Kubernetes, CI/CD (GitHub Actions), and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Helm).
• Data & storage: Postgres/SQL + Redis; experience with vector databases (e.g., pgvector, Milvus, Pinecone).
• Security mindset: Practical experience with SSO/SAML/OIDC, secrets, key management, logging/monitoring, and compliance road-mapping.
• Execution & communication: Startup-speed delivery, crisp written/spoken communication, and comfort with client-facing discussions (pre-sales/solutioning).
• Timezone overlap: Able to maintain meaningful overlap with Gulf Standard Time (Dubai).

Nice-to-Haves (Bonus Points)

• PPTX/Office ecosystem experience (Office JS, pptxgen, python-pptx) and slide rendering/templating at scale.
• Experience with LangChain/LlamaIndex, vLLM/Triton, LiteLLM/Mastra, or comparable orchestration layers.
• On-prem / air-gapped enterprise deployments, Azure AD/SCIM provisioning, and SIEM integrations.
• Prior work in enterprise SaaS or B2B productivity platforms; GCC/MENA enterprise exposure.

Engagement Model

• Capacity: 10–20 hours/week to start (flex as milestones demand).
• Cadence: Weekly leadership sync; bi-weekly architecture/roadmap review; availability for critical incidents and key client calls.
• Initial 90-Day Outcomes:
  • v1 Architecture & Security Baseline (diagrams, data flows, IAM, SLOs).
  • AI/RAG blueprint with evaluation harness and cost/latency targets.
  • CI/CD & IaC in place; logging/metrics/tracing live.
  • Hiring plan + interview rubrics for FE/BE + first key hires onboarded.
  • MVP → Pilot delivery plan with risk register and cut-criteria.

What We Offer

• Opportunity to shape IKAI’s technical strategy and ship an AI-first product used by leading consulting teams.
• A flexible fractional engagement with real ownership and the option to scale up.
• Close collaboration with a focused founder team, design partners, and enterprise users.
• Competitive fractional compensation (retainer + milestone bonuses; equity negotiable).