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Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer

Uplift People Consulting • United Arab Emirates
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We are partnering with a high-potential marketplace startup in the UAE to build their founding team, seeking a Co-Founder & CTO to own the full technical architecture and product delivery. The role covers platform architecture, experience-led engineering, AI-first product strategy, and technical team building from pre-launch to scale. Candidates need 5-10 years of engineering experience, essential marketplace experience, practical AI/ML integration experience, and strong full-stack capability.

Key Highlights
Third co-founder and first engineer for a pre-launch UAE marketplace targeting 2026 go-live
Own full technical architecture across mobile, web, backend, data, and AI/ML
Lead MVP build, payments/escrow, buyer protection, dashboards, and admin tooling
Build and grow engineering team, culture, and technical leadership
AED 20,000/month plus meaningful co-founder equity
Key Responsibilities
Own the full technical architecture of the marketplace across mobile apps, web platform, backend services, and data infrastructure
Lead technical decisions including stack selection, third-party integrations, and infrastructure choices
Define engineering standards, security protocols, scalability practices, CI/CD pipelines, QA frameworks, and deployment processes
Create the technical roadmap and translate product requirements into scalable technical solutions
Own the MVP build end-to-end including transaction flows, payments and escrow, buyer protection, seller dashboards, and admin tooling
Embed AI-first thinking and build the data foundation for analytics and experimentation
Hire, manage, and grow the engineering team and establish engineering culture
Act as technical voice in investor, partnership, and product strategy discussions
Technical Skills Required
React Native AWS AI/ML
Benefits & Perks
Meaningful co-founder equity stake
Company visa sponsorship possible
Remote with regular travel to Dubai
Nice to Have
UAE/MENA market experience
Willingness to travel to Dubai regularly

Job Description

We are partnering with a high-potential marketplace startup in the UAE to build their founding team. Our partner is a taste-driven style exchange platform where people discover, share, and pass forward the things they love — curated by real people with a genuine point of view. We're building the infrastructure for that exchange to happen seamlessly, at scale, across MENA. This is not a role you inherit; it's one you build.

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