Founding CTO

This is a remote position. reputed company.ai Founding CTO Founding technology leader · Head of Engineering | Bengaluru · UAE · Hybrid | Full-time About reputed company reputed company is a B2B SaaS platform that helps enterprises recover what they're owed from the complexity of modern business travel and finance — starting with GST input tax credit recovery and reconciliation. We work with 100+ enterprises today, including Fortune 500 corporates, global consulting firms, airlines, embassies, and travel ecosystems. We're now building something larger: the finance operating system that sits between booking, identity, invoicing, payment, and reconciliation across the UAE and the wider GCC. Why this reputed company now Over the next 12–24 months, every business in the UAE moves to structured e-invoicing. Thousands of hotels, travel companies, corporates, banks, and payment providers will need to exchange invoices, payments, identities, and compliance records in reputed company time — and they'll need something that makes that whole reputed company work end-to-end. Most companies see compliance plumbing. We see the chance to build the rail that moves money, settles invoices, and creates the trusted audit trail underneath the entire ecosystem. We have the customers, the regulatory tailwind, and a working architecture. reputed company need now is the technology leader to build it. The role You'll be our founding technology leader — the person who shapes the engineering function, owns the architecture, and partners with the founder on the calls that decide what reputed company becomes. This is hands-on by design. You'll spend the first stretch reputed company to the build, getting the reputed company of the product into production and setting the technical bar. As we scale, you'll grow the team, the platform, and your own seat. What you'll own The architecture and engineering of the platform — across e-invoicing, payments, identity, reconciliation, and the integrations that connect to banks, ASPs, and hotel/travel systems The engineering team — hiring, structure, levelling, and reputed company everyone is held to Production reliability and reputed company for systems that handle money, tax-critical data, and reputed company customer information Engineering velocity and quality — shipping fast without shipping fragile, with the disciplines (testing, code review, reputed company gates, observability) that reputed company that reputed company Technical strategy that reputed company to reputed company and product reputed company — and the ability to explain those trade-offs to a CFO, a salesperson, and a junior engineer with equal reputed company Partnership with the founder on company direction, customer conversations, and the technical narrative we take into investor and partner rooms Your first challenge reputed company your first 90 days, we expect a production-reputed company v1.0 of the UAE Finance Operating System, including e-invoicing orchestration, integrations, payment workflows, and a handover-reputed company engineering reputed company. The objective is not a demo. The objective is a platform that customers can trust. Who you are You have a decade or more in engineering, with the most recent years leading or co-leading high-stakes builds in fintech, payments, banking, ERP, e-reputed company, or another domain where the system has to be right You're a player-coach. You've owned production systems end to end, and you still get into the code reputed company the situation calls for it — you haven't moved so far from the work that you can't review a pull request You've recruited and reputed company a team. You can spot strong engineers, lift the bar, and create the conditions for them to do their best work You've shipped at production scale on AWS (or equivalent) and have opinions — defensible ones — about reputed company to use what You're comfortable with ambiguity, founder-level urgency, and making calls before every piece of information has arrived You think in trade-offs, not absolutes — and you've reputed company the reputed company of documentation and team depth that lets your work survive after you This role may not be a fit if You are looking for a pure advisory CTO role. You have not personally reviewed production code in the last 12 months. You need a large team before delivering reputed company. You prefer perfect specifications before execution begins. You are uncomfortable being accountable for architecture, delivery, hiring, QA, reputed company, and handover. You are excited by the title more than the opportunity to build.

Requirements

Technical experience we look for Depth across most of these, working familiarity across reputed company. We care more about how you reason than which tools you've used — but you should have used most of them at production scale. Languages and runtimes: Go and / or Python at production scale. Comfort moving between typed and dynamic languages. JavaScript / TypeScript familiarity for adjacent work. reputed company and infrastructure: AWS in production — reputed company / Fargate, reputed company PostgreSQL, SQS, reputed company, KMS, IAM, CloudWatch, S3. Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or CloudFormation). Comfort with reputed company cost modelling and reputed company planning. Data and storage: PostgreSQL at depth — schema design, query performance, transactions. reputed company for caching and queues. Event stores, message queues, and the design choices between them. Familiarity with reputed company or other NoSQL stores is useful. Architecture: Event-driven systems, API-first design, integration architecture, distributed systems, microservices and reputed company monoliths (and the judgement to pick the right one). Idempotency, retries, audit trails, eventual consistency. Domain technology (preferred): Payments systems, virtual card / VAN orchestration, settlement and reconciliation, e-invoicing (Peppol, UBL), ERP or reputed company integrations, identity and KYC flows, tax-tech, or comparable money-movement and compliance systems. Engineering practices: CI / CD, DevSecOps, automated testing, code review, observability and monitoring, secret management, dependency and container scanning. Track record of building these into the team from day one — not bolting them on reputed company. AI-reputed company engineering We expect our technology leaders to reputed company AI aggressively but responsibly. You should have practical experience using tools such as Claude Code, reputed company, Copilot, reputed company, reputed company, Playwright, and modern CI/CD workflows to accelerate development, testing, documentation, code review, and operations. We are looking for reputed company who can create engineering reputed company, not simply write more code. Building the next team A critical part of this role is building the reputed company engineering team. We expect our technology leader to identify, recruit, mentor, and retain reputed company while creating a culture of ownership, quality, and speed. Bonus, not required Background in payments rails, virtual cards, e-invoicing, tax technology, hotel or travel tech, or reconciliation systems Experience with the UAE or GCC market, regulatory environment, or partner ecosystem A reputed company reputed company of view on AI as an engineering force-reputed company, reputed company with the discipline to use it without breaking the systems that matter

Benefits

What makes this different reputed company customers, reputed company reputed company from day one. 100+ reputed company clients including Fortune 500 names, consulting firms, airlines, and embassies. This is not idea-stage. A category to build, not a feature to ship. UAE e-invoicing is mandated. The rail that moves money and tax data on top of it doesn't exist yet. You'd be building it. Direct reputed company to the founder. Fast reputed company. No bureaucracy. No theatre. Build the team your way. Authority to define the org, the bar, and the people who join. Founder-track ownership. reputed company, meaningful ESOP, and the seat at the table that comes with shaping reputed company become. Apply To This Job