ROLE : Chief Architect of Intelligence
Role Summary
We're a stealth-stage startup building a dual-sided, event-driven Saa S platform in one of the fastest-scaling B2B verticals in the GCC. The platform sits at the intersection of real-time data orchestration, LLM-powered decision engines, and multi-tenant financial computation. This role is pure technical ownership architecture, stack, infrastructure, and team are yours to define and build from Day 1.
RESPONSIBILITIES
• Design and ship a multi-tenant Saa S architecture with row-level data isolation, RBAC, and column-level PII encryption compliant with UAE PDPL and regional data residency requirements• Build and own a bi-directional event-driven sync layer sub-5s propagation, 1,000+ events/second throughput, with failure recovery and event replay logic• Engineer a configurable financial computation engine waterfall logic, retroactive recalculation across open records, VAT handling, and a fully auditable immutable transaction ledger• Integrate and productionise multiple LLM pipelines context-aware prompt engineering, batch generation jobs, streaming responses, and session-scoped inference across thousands of concurrent users• Architect a third-party messaging API integration layer designed for platform-dependency abstraction and graceful fallback• Build the engineering function from 0 hiring, code standards, CI/CD, and technical roadmap ownership post-funding
QUALIFICATIONS
Must-have:• Problem solving mindset• Production experience with multi-tenant B2B Saa S, you've owned the data isolation layer, not just worked near it• Strong backend in Node.js/Type Script or Python (Fast API/Django)• Postgre SQL at depth RLS, indexing strategy, schema design for high-write workloads• Redis for caching and real-time state management• Event-driven architecture message queues (Bull MQ, SQS, or Kafka), pub/sub patterns, idempotent consumers• LLM API integration in a shipped product (Open AI, Anthropic, or equivalent)• PWA or React/Next.js frontend with offline-first capability
Nice-to-have:• Messaging platform API integration (webhook handling, template management, delivery state machines)• Cloud infrastructure on AWS me-south-1 or UAE North regions• Experience building financial or commission calculation engines with audit trail requirements• Prior co-founder or founding engineer experience at an early-stage startup
Compensation & Benefits
• Equity: 40-50% | 4-year vest | 1-year cliff | double-trigger acceleration• Salary: AED 5,000–10,000/month pre-funding → AED 35,000–50,000/month post-seed• Perks: Full architectural ownership, clean-slate V2 build, comprehensive domain and functional documentation from Day 1, and a business co-founder who handles GTM, partnerships, and fundraising entirely
Company Culture
Small team. No layers. We document everything and move fast. Technical decisions are yours we don't have opinions on your stack, your schema, or your deployment strategy. We do have high standards for reliability, auditability, and user trust. If you want a role where your architectural decisions compound directly into company value and where the market you're building for is genuinely underserved this is the right conversation.

Dubai-based or relocating | Co-founder, not employee | Apply with Git Hub or something you've shipped
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