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Etera Technologies FZCO

<div>About Etera
Etera is building the first AI-native corporate travel platform for the GCC market &mdash; designed from the ground up for how businesses in the region actually operate. We're a lean, high-conviction team replacing legacy TMCs with autonomous agents, real-time inventory, and a product experience that doesn't feel like it was designed in 2009.
The Role
We're hiring an Engineering Manager who owns all of Etera's engineering, across all four verticals (Hotels, Flights, Restaurants, Experiences) and the platform layer beneath them. This is not a meeting-heavy management role. You spend at least 50% of your time hands-on: writing code, reviewing architecture, debugging production issues, and shipping features alongside your team. The other 50% you spend making everyone around you dramatically more productive &mdash; through hiring, technical direction, and building the agentic coding infrastructure that turns a small team into a force multiplier.
What You'll Own<ul><li>
All of engineering. Every vertical, every platform service, every microservice. You set the technical direction, own the architecture decisions, and are accountable for the quality and velocity of everything that goes to production. With a team of 3&ndash;5 engineers today (scaling to 8+), you are the engineering leadership &mdash; not one layer of it.</li><li>
The agent infrastructure. Etera runs a multi-team Claude Code agent architecture (OPUS Prime) &mdash; 8 teams, ~60 specialist agents, two-tier orchestration. You own this system as a core engineering platform. You maintain agent configurations, manage prompt drift, handle tool failures, design validation gates, and ensure agent output meets the same quality bar as human-written code. If you haven't operated agent systems at this scale before, that's fine &mdash; but you need to have built with agentic coding tools extensively enough that scaling to platform-level ownership is a natural next step, not a learning cliff.</li><li>
The 10x engineering culture. You are responsible for ensuring every engineer on your team operates at maximum leverage &mdash; meaning they know how to configure, orchestrate, and validate coding agents as part of their daily workflow. You don't just use agentic tools yourself. You build the playbooks, set the standards, and coach engineers who are still thinking in manual keystrokes to think in agent-augmented systems. The goal is a team where every engineer ships like a team of three.</li><li>
Hands-on engineering. At least 50% of your time is spent writing code, reviewing PRs, designing systems, and solving hard technical problems directly. You set the engineering standard through the work you do, not just the direction you set. When a critical supplier integration breaks at 11pm, you're in the code, not waiting for a status update.</li><li>
Delivery. You break work into lean epics &mdash; problem statements, success metrics, scope boundaries. You route tasks between human engineers and agent teams based on complexity and judgment requirements. You don't write granular tickets that create the illusion of progress. You compress work aggressively and hold people to outcomes, not activity.</li><li>
Hiring. You build the team. You source, interview, evaluate, and make the call. You know the difference between a CV that was written by Claude and a career that was built by a real engineer &mdash; because you've already seen both.</li></ul>
Tech Stack<ul><li>
Backend: TypeScript (end-to-end), 26 microservices across 4 verticals + platform, OpenSearch v3, REST + Webhook orchestration, supplier integrations (PKfare, RateHawk, Hotelbeds, Viator).</li><li>
Frontend / Mobile: React Native + Expo, TypeScript, Firebase Auth (OTP, Apple, Google).</li><li>
AI / Agent Layer: Anthropic API / Claude, Claude Code (agent teams as default runtime), Mastra (agent orchestration), Context7, LightRAG (Stage 2/3).</li><li>
Infrastructure: AWS (UAE data residency), EAS Build / TestFlight, CI/CD pipelines.</li></ul>
You Write Code. You Run Teams. You Build the Machine That Builds the Product.
This role lives at the intersection of three things. The strongest candidates will bring depth in all three. Realistically, we expect deep strength in the first two and genuine momentum in the third.
Dimension 1: You are a strong hands-on engineer.
You have shipped production systems in TypeScript, backend services, APIs, mobile features. You can review a database migration, debug a webhook integration, and refactor a React Native component in the same afternoon. You're in the codebase daily, and your team trusts your technical judgment because they see you make hard calls in code, not just in meetings.
Dimension 2: You have led engineering teams that ship.
You have managed 3+ engineers in a production environment. You've hired, run 1:1s, handled performance issues, and made the call on when to ship and when to hold. You know how to set direction without micromanaging, how to give feedback that actually changes behavior, and how to build a team culture where people do their best work. You've done this in a remote or distributed setting &mdash; async communication and written-first culture are your default.
Dimension 3: You are building deep fluency with agentic engineering tools.
The ideal candidate has already built or managed multi-agent coding systems in production. But we also want to hear from engineering leaders who have been using agentic tools (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or equivalent) extensively as power users, shipping real features through them daily &mdash; and are ready to take ownership of a platform-level agent infrastructure. What matters is that you've moved well past experimentation into genuine fluency, and that scaling agent systems excites you rather than intimidates you. 
Requirements 
Requirements<ul><li>
7+ years of professional software engineering, with at least 2 years managing a team and owning delivery.</li><li>
TypeScript across the full stack &mdash; you read, write, review, and architect in TypeScript. Non-negotiable.</li><li>
Production experience with LLM APIs (Anthropic, OpenAI, or equivalent) &mdash; tool calling, multi-turn management, evaluation pipelines, failure handling. Not just prompting.</li><li>
Hands-on daily use of agentic coding tools (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or equivalent). You ship real work through them, not side experiments. Bonus if you've built systems, playbooks, or workflows that helped other engineers adopt them.</li><li>
Experience managing remote or distributed engineering teams. Written-first, async-native communication.</li><li>
Strong written English. You write specs, design docs, architectural decisions, and agent configurations. If you can't write clearly, you can't lead clearly. Arabic or German is a genuine plus.</li></ul>
Bonus Points<ul><li>
Prior work with travel supplier APIs or GDS/NDC systems (Amadeus, Sabre, PKfare, RateHawk).</li><li>
Experience with Voice AI systems (Ultravox, Vapi, ElevenLabs) &mdash; building or managing teams that build automated voice calling.</li><li>
Familiarity with OpenSearch, vector search, or hybrid search systems.</li><li>
Experience building engineering teams from scratch in new geographies.</li><li>
Background in security auditing, compliance, or data residency requirements (UAE PDPL context).</li><li>
You've designed or maintained agent orchestration architectures &mdash; not just individual agents, but the coordination layer between them.</li></ul> 

Benefits 
What We Offer<ul><li>
Greenfield Ownership &mdash; You own all of engineering. Not a slice. The whole thing.</li><li>
Human + AI Engineering &mdash; You'll run one of the first hybrid engineering organizations where autonomous agents are first-class members of the team, not side tools. You'll define how this works.</li><li>
Remote-First &mdash; Work from anywhere. Async-friendly, written-first culture. Team distributed across Europe, Pakistan, and the Gulf.</li><li>
Equity + Competitive Package &mdash; Meaningful equity stake. Competitive cash. Built for the long term.</li><li>
High-Impact Market &mdash; GCC corporate travel is a $20B+ market running on legacy infrastructure. You're building the replacement.</li><li>
50% Hands-On &mdash; This isn't a role where you slowly drift into full-time meetings. The expectation is baked in: you write code, you review code, you ship code. That's protected time, not aspirational.</li></ul></div>

Engineering Manager

<div>About Etera
Etera is building the first AI-native corporate travel platform for the GCC market &mdash; designed from the ground up for how businesses in the region actually operate. We're a lean, high-conviction team replacing legacy TMCs with autonomous agents, real-time inventory, and a product experience that doesn't feel like it was designed in 2009.
The Role
We're hiring a Product Manager who ships production work within their first 6&ndash;8 weeks. Not a stretch goal &mdash; the bar.
You'll own product direction across Etera's verticals, working backwards from users and business outcomes to define what gets built and in what order. You operate alongside engineering using the same agentic tools they use &mdash; Claude Code, Codex, Cursor &mdash; producing specs, documentation, prototypes, and product artifacts directly through them. You manage a physical team of humans and a virtual team of AI-powered workflows, and you're accountable for the output of both.
This role requires a sharp eye for UI/UX. Etera's product philosophy is premium, calm, and detail-obsessed &mdash; every pixel earns its place. You don't need to be a designer, but you need to see what a designer sees. You catch the misaligned padding, the inconsistent type weight, the interaction that feels off before anyone files a bug. You hold the quality bar for what the user actually experiences, not just what the spec described.
You report to the Head of Product. You work shoulder-to-shoulder with the Engineering Manager.
What You'll Own<ul><li>
Product direction. You own the what and the when across Etera's verticals. What gets built, in what order, for whom, and why. You make prioritization decisions grounded in user insight, business impact, and engineering feasibility &mdash; not opinion, not trend-chasing. You scope ruthlessly: ship the right slice, validate through user feedback and data, and kill what doesn't work.</li><li>
Specs that are ready to build from. You write lean, precise product specs &mdash; problem statements, success metrics, scope boundaries, edge cases. Good enough that an engineer can start building without a clarification meeting. You use Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor to produce these specs, generate user flows, build lightweight prototypes, and validate ideas before committing engineering time. Vague specs are bugs in the product process.</li><li>
UI/UX quality. You are the last line of defense before anything reaches users. You review every feature, every screen, every interaction with the eye of someone who understands that trust is built through craft &mdash; typography, spacing, hierarchy, motion, responsiveness. You represent the user with conviction and rigor, and you push back when the output doesn't meet the bar, regardless of who produced it.</li><li>
User and market understanding. You know who Etera's users are &mdash; corporate travel managers, business travelers in the GCC, travel operations teams replacing legacy TMCs. You talk to users. You read support tickets. You watch session recordings. You run discovery end-to-end: user interviews, competitive research, usability testing, data analysis. Your product instincts are grounded in evidence, not assumptions.</li><li>
A virtual product team. Beyond the human team, you build and maintain AI-powered product workflows &mdash; competitive analysis, spec formatting, documentation updates, changelog generation, user feedback synthesis. You define what gets automated, configure the workflows, and validate the output. Every piece of repetitive product work gets removed from your plate so you focus on judgment and decisions.</li><li>
Cross-functional coordination. You are the bridge between product, engineering, design, and business. You don't throw specs over the wall. You're in the thread when architecture decisions are made, when trade-offs surface, and when scope needs to flex. You equip sales, support, and marketing so they can effectively communicate value to customers. You make the call on scope; the Engineering Manager makes the call on implementation.</li><li>
Shipping cadence. Features go to production in days and weeks, not months and quarters. You break large initiatives into shippable increments and resist the temptation to hold everything for a big reveal. You check with users and metrics to learn what works and what should be iterated on or killed. You measure yourself by what's live, not what's planned.</li><li>
Metrics and outcomes. You define and analyze the metrics that inform product success. You instrument features before launch, monitor impact after, and use data to drive the next iteration. You present findings to the team with clarity and conviction, and you change course when the numbers say you're wrong.</li></ul>
Tools You Operate<ul><li>
Daily drivers &mdash; you're already proficient:</li><li><ul><li>
Claude Code, Codex, Cursor &mdash; for spec writing, documentation, prototyping, agent workflow configuration, and direct production of product artifacts. This is non-negotiable.</li><li>
Jira &mdash; for epic structuring and ticket management. You write lean epics with problem statements and scope boundaries, not verbose requirement documents.</li><li>
Figma &mdash; for reviewing designs, annotating feedback, and understanding design constraints at the detail level. You spot issues before engineering starts building.</li></ul></li><li>
Expected &mdash; you know these or pick them up fast:</li><li><ul><li>
Analytics tools (Mixpanel, Amplitude, or equivalent) &mdash; for measuring feature impact and making data-informed decisions.</li><li>
Confluence or equivalent &mdash; for maintaining living documentation, PRDs, and product decision logs.</li><li>
Markdown &mdash; your default writing format for specs, docs, and async communication.</li></ul></li></ul> 

Requirements 
What We're Looking For<ul><li>
5+ years of product management experience shipping consumer or B2B SaaS products. You have a track record of features that went live, moved metrics, and survived contact with real users &mdash; not just roadmaps that got approved.</li><li>
Proficiency with Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. You use these tools daily to produce real work. Not as a curiosity. As infrastructure. If they've fundamentally changed how you work, you're in the right place.</li><li>
A sharp, trained eye for UI/UX. You understand visual hierarchy, typography, spacing, interaction design, and responsive behavior at a level where you catch quality issues that most PMs miss. You have strong opinions on what makes a product feel premium versus generic, and you can articulate why.</li><li>
Fast ramp-up ability. You can absorb a new product, market, and tech stack quickly enough to ship production work within 6&ndash;8 weeks. You've done this before &mdash; joined a team and delivered real output in the first two months.</li><li>
Strong product writing. Your specs are precise, your prioritization rationale is clear, your async communication is sharp. In a remote-first, written-first culture, your writing is your primary tool for alignment.</li><li>
Technical fluency. You don't write production code, but you understand how software systems work. You can read an API contract, follow an architecture discussion, and make scope trade-offs that account for technical complexity. Engineers respect your judgment because you understand their constraints.</li><li>
Data-driven decision making. You define success metrics before building, instrument features, and use quantitative and qualitative data to inform what ships next. You present findings with rigor, not narrative convenience.</li><li>
Experience managing distributed or remote teams. You've run product processes across time zones with async-first communication. Written documents are your default, not meetings.</li><li>
Ownership mentality. You don't wait for permission. You don't escalate decisions you can make yourself. When something isn't working, you fix the process, not just the output.</li></ul>
Bonus Points<ul><li>
Experience in travel, hospitality, or corporate travel management. You understand booking lifecycles, supplier dynamics, and what corporate buyers care about.</li><li>
Experience with GCC markets &mdash; UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar. You understand the business culture and user expectations in the region.</li><li>
Prior experience in design tools, visual editing, or creative platforms &mdash; any background that sharpened your eye for design quality beyond typical PM level.</li><li>
You've built and managed AI-powered product workflows &mdash; competitive intelligence agents, documentation agents, feedback synthesis pipelines.</li><li>
Experience with B2B product management &mdash; procurement cycles, account management integration, enterprise feature requirements.</li><li>
Experience shaping product direction amid ambiguity &mdash; 0-to-1 product work where the category is being defined in real time.</li></ul> 

Benefits 
What We Offer<ul><li>
Ship From Week One &mdash; The expectation is production output within 6&ndash;8 weeks. You'll have the tools, the context, and the team to make that real.</li><li>
Human + AI Product Team &mdash; You'll manage both human team members and AI agent workflows. You'll define how product management works when half your throughput comes from agentic tools.</li><li>
Greenfield Product &mdash; Four verticals, a B2B platform layer, an AI-native architecture. Most of this is being built right now. You're shaping the product, not maintaining someone else's decisions.</li><li>
Design-Obsessed Culture &mdash; Etera's design philosophy is premium, calm, detail-driven. You'll work in an environment where the quality bar for UI/UX is genuinely high, not just aspirational.</li><li>
Remote-First &mdash; Work from anywhere. Async-friendly, written-first culture. Team distributed across Europe, Pakistan, and the Gulf.</li><li>
Equity + Competitive Package &mdash; Meaningful equity stake. Competitive cash. Built for the long term.</li><li>
High-Impact Market &mdash; GCC corporate travel is a $20B+ market running on legacy infrastructure. You're building the replacement.</li></ul></div>

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