Backend First - Product Engineer

Dubai Tax Free8 days agoContractor External
Negotiable
About LAMARS AI LAMARS AI builds conversational AI infrastructure for Real Estate teams (initial focus: off-plan brokerages in Dubai). We turn WhatsApp inbound into qualified conversations and booked calls, helping sales teams perform better without increasing headcount. The product is already live with paying clients. The current challenge is delivery: executing implementations with quality, speed, and consistency, while learning from real usage to improve what we build next. We’re a small, early-stage team. This role is critical to making the product work in the real world, not just on paper. We’re looking for a backend-first Product Engineer to help take a live B2B product from an MVP-style setup to a solid, production-ready system. The product is already operating with real customers in Dubai. The challenge now is not to “prototype”, but to strengthen the core: system behavior, integrations, reliability, and scalability — so it can grow without breaking. This is a hands-on role. You’ll be building, improving and owning real parts of the product. What you’ll be doing Take an existing MVP and evolve it into a more robust, maintainable codebase: Build and improve backend logic, APIs and integrations Work on system behavior, edge cases and failure handling Integrate with external tools (CRMs, automation tools, messaging platforms, etc.) Collaborate closely with the founder on product and technical decisions Prioritize clarity, reliability and real-world usage over “perfect architecture” What we’re looking for Strong backend or backend-leaning product engineering experience You’ve built real systems, not just isolated features Comfortable owning parts of a product end-to-end Experience with APIs, integrations and system logic Able to work in English on a daily basis Comfortable working aligned with Dubai business hours Nice to have Experience with automations or workflow-based systems Experience working in early-stage or fast-moving environments Familiarity with AI-powered products or LLM-based systems (not mandatory) Practical details Full-time, remote Contractor role Working hours aligned with Dubai (UTC+4) Early-stage environment with high ownership and impact