CTO - Distributed Systems Architect

*This role requires relocation to Dubai**

Our client is looking for a CTO. In this role, you will guide the software team through the design and development of our current and future products.

You are comfortable taking action in an environment where complete information is unavailable, and you can help your team deliver well-architected products that maintain high quality. Experience coordinating many moving parts to meet tight deadlines and having contingency plans ready when priorities shift is a must-have.

We are seeking an engineering leader who has the following:

• 15+ years of experience designing and scaling distributed, low-latency systems, including 5+ years leading large engineering organisations (200+ engineers)
• Demonstrated expertise in complex, real-time domains such as on-demand delivery, ad-tech auctions, or high-frequency trading/energy platforms.
• Proven success in building and deploying real-time optimisation systems — including vehicle routing, maps, dynamic assignment (e.g.Hungarian algorithm), integer linear programming, and reinforcement learning–based control loops — at 10K+ TPS scale.
• Deep technical proficiency with microservice architectures, event-driven systems (Kafka or equivalent), geospatial frameworks (H3/S2), and languages such as Python, Go, and Java.
• Hands-on experience establishing end-to-end ML infrastructure, including online/offline feature pipelines, feature stores and A/B experimentation platforms.
• Relentlessly strive to push towards best practices and team goals while being flexible in a fast-paced startup environment.
• You have an entrepreneurial spirit, strong commercial acumen, grit, and a deep appreciation for quality.