Principal Frontend Engineer

Overview

Location: Abu Dhabi

Presight, an ADX‑listed public company limited by shares whose majority shareholder is Abu Dhabi company G42, is the region’s leading big data analytics company powered by Artificial Intelligence (“AI”). It combines big data, analytics, and AI expertise to serve every sector, of every scale, to create business and positive societal impact. With its world‑class computer vision, AI and omni‑analytics platform as its engine, Presight leverages all‑source data to support insight‑driven decision making that shapes policy and creates safer, healthier, happier, and more sustainable societies.

Job Description

Principal Frontend Engineer – Presight Data Intelligence Platform (Abu Dhabi)

Key Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the frontend architecture and technology stack.
• Establish best practices for code quality, performance, security, and accessibility.
• Lead design reviews and technical discussions, ensuring alignment with product vision and platform goals.
• Drive adoption of modern AI‑assisted tools to enhance productivity, code quality, and testing efficiency.
• Build advanced data‑driven UIs, dashboards, and interactive visualizations.
• Drive the adoption of modern frontend frameworks, libraries, and tooling.
• Partner with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to translate complex requirements into intuitive solutions.
• Collaborate on design systems and component libraries for consistent, reusable UI patterns.
• Coach and mentor frontend engineers at all levels, fostering technical growth and craftsmanship.
• Champion the integration of AI/LLM‑powered development practices across the team.
• Advocate for engineering excellence and innovation within the broader team.
• Contribute to shaping engineering culture and recruitment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, Engineering or related field.
• 10+ years of professional frontend development experience, including at least 3 years in a lead or principal role.
• Expert knowledge of JavaScript/TypeScript, React ecosystem including state management libraries (MobX, Redux, etc.), build systems, UI components, etc.
• Proven experience in frontend architecture and system design for scalable enterprise applications.
• Hands‑on expertise with performance optimization, rendering large datasets, and UI responsiveness.
• Familiarity with Echarts, AgGrid, ReactFlow, MonacoEditor or similar visualization libraries is highly desirable.
• Experience collaborating in cross‑functional product teams, influencing both technical and product roadmaps.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to articulate technical concepts to non‑technical stakeholders.
• Exposure to AI‑assisted development workflows (e.g., code generation, automated testing, AI‑driven refactoring) is a strong plus.

Good to have

• Strong background in building data‑intensive domains – transformations and/or analytics: dashboards, real‑time visualizations, data pipelines, low‑code transformations, etc.
• Experience building graph and/or state management applications or components (Using ReactFlow/XFlow or similar).
• Experience working with web sockets, building real‑time collaborative tools on web.
• Familiar with core data management and data engineering concepts.
• Interest in AI models, python notebooks.
• Great communication skills and passion for technology and driving innovation forward.

What we look for

If you are a performance‑driven, inquisitive mind with the agility to adapt to ambiguity, you will fit right in. You should be eager to explore opportunities to build meaningful collaborations with stakeholders and aspire to create unique customer‑centric solutions. Bias for action and a passion to conquer new frontiers in the AI space is at the heart of the Presight community.

What working at Presight offers

• Culture: An open, diverse and inclusive environment with a global vision that encourages personal growth and focuses on ground‑breaking, industry‑first innovations.
• Career: Outstanding learning, development & growth opportunities via structured training programs and innovative, high‑tech projects.
• Rewards: A competitive remuneration package with a host of perks including healthcare, education support, leave benefits and more.