founder and chief technical officer

Careers Connect

Company: Careers Connect (On behalf of a leading Telecom/Wireless Solutions Provider)Location: Karachi, PakistanSalary Range: As per marketExperience: 12+ years of progressive technology leadership experienceAbout the Client: Careers Connect has been retained by a dynamic, fast-growing telecom services and wireless solutions provider to source an executive-level technologist for the position of Chief Technology Officer (CTO). This organization supports high-volume, multi-regional networks and international retail operations, and is looking for a transformative leader to own the complete technology enterprise architecture and long-term innovation strategy.Position Summary: As the Chief Technology Officer, you will serve as the top executive authority for all software engineering, product architecture, infrastructure, and technology investments. Working directly alongside executive leadership and the Board, you will drive technology innovation, scale cloud and enterprise systems, and align software systems and IT capability with aggressive global expansion.Key Responsibilities<ul><li>Executive Tech Vision &amp; Strategy: Formulate and execute the corporate technology vision, driving architecture choices, software engineering practices, and digital transformation initiatives.</li><li>Platform Architecture &amp; Engineering: Lead software development, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise system integration to ensure high scalability, reliability, and security across all platforms.</li><li>Product &amp; Innovation Roadmap: Collaborate with business leadership to design and deploy custom tech products, automation tooling, and data analytics pipelines that accelerate operational efficiency.</li><li>Information Security &amp; Risk Management: Establish high-standard enterprise risk management, compliance protocols, and cybersecurity frameworks to safeguard business-critical systems and user data.</li><li>Vendor &amp; Tech Budget Oversight: Direct the enterprise IT and engineering budget, managing strategic partnerships with global cloud providers, software vendors, and hardware manufacturers.</li><li>Team Scaling &amp; Mentorship: Build, scale, and mentor a top-tier team of engineering managers, software developers, cloud architects, and sysadmins.</li></ul>Required Qualifications &amp; Skills<ul><li>Education: Master&rsquo;s or Bachelor&rsquo;s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related quantitative field (MBA or executive management credentials highly regarded).</li><li>Experience: Minimum of 12 years in core software engineering and technology management, with at least 5 years in a C-suite or senior Director-level role (e.g., VP of Engineering, CTO, Head of Software). Direct experience in telecom platforms, SaaS, high-scale retail technology, or multi-site systems is strongly preferred.</li><li>Technical Breadth: Deep expertise in modern tech stacks, distributed systems architecture, cloud services (AWS, Azure, or GCP), microservices, and enterprise software engineering.</li><li>Executive Presence: Outstanding business acumen, cross-functional leadership, and the ability to translate complex technology concepts to board members and business stakeholders.</li></ul>What&rsquo;s on Offer<ul><li>Competitive executive monthly salary</li><li>Executive health insurance, fringe benefits, and long-term leadership incentives.</li><li>Key executive seat to shape the technology foundation of a scaling international organization.</li></ul>Pay: From Rs500,000.00 per monthWork Location: In person

Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Auxo Talent

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 Chief Technology Officer
 
 
 
 
 Financial Services
 
 
 
 
 Bahrain - on-site
 
 
 
 
 
 
 A leading financial services organisation in Bahrain is undergoing a major digital transformation and is seeking an experienced Chief Technology Officer to lead its technology function into its next phase of growth.
 
 
 
 
 
 This is a rare opportunity to shape the technology direction of a regionally significant, regulated financial services business operating across multiple markets. The successful candidate will take ownership of infrastructure, engineering, and payments technology, driving modernisation, scalability, and innovation across the organisation.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 Own the technology strategy and roadmap, aligned with the organisation's digital transformation goals
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 Lead three core pillars: infrastructure (project, database and CRM management), engineering (software and application development, solution design), and fintech/payments transformation (card management systems and payment processing)
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 Drive modernisation of legacy systems, including cloud migration and architecture improvements
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 Build, mentor and scale high-performing technology teams across multiple markets
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 Ensure technology operations meet regulatory, security and compliance standards across all jurisdictions
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 Partner with executive leadership and the board on technology investment decisions
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 Champion innovation in digital payments, open banking and emerging fintech capabilities
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 Proven experience as a CTO, VP of Engineering, or senior technology leader within financial services, fintech or payments
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 Direct experience with payments technology strongly preferred &mdash; card issuing, acquiring, payment processing or digital wallets
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 Candidates from broader technology companies with a strong track record delivering payment solutions will also be considered
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 Demonstrated success leading digital transformation and platform modernisation at scale
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 Experience operating within a regulated financial services environment
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 Track record leading multi-disciplinary technology teams across infrastructure, engineering and platform delivery
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 Strong executive presence, with experience reporting to CEO or board-level stakeholders
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 This is a unique opportunity to lead technology strategy at a pivotal moment for a growing financial services business, with real influence over its digital future. If you're a technology leader with payments or fintech expertise ready for your next executive challenge, click apply today to start the conversation.
 
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Chief Technology Officer

Codazen

<div><div><h3 class="jobSectionHeader">About Codazen</h3>

Codazen is a technology consultancy that helps organizations move faster without losing control. 
 
We design and engineer the platforms, data systems, and digital products that enable leaders to make better decisions and turn strategic intent into measurable outcomes. Our work spans enterprise architecture, data and AI, product development, and customer experience&mdash;often within complex environments where clarity, judgment, and execution matter most. 
 
We believe technology should make complex systems more coherent, useful, and human. That requires more than technical fluency. It requires intellectual curiosity, disciplined engineering, honest communication, and a deep respect for the people who depend on what we build. 
 
Our clients trust us to solve consequential problems, challenge assumptions, and remain accountable beyond delivery. We are ambitious about the impact of our work, thoughtful about how we achieve it, and committed to continually improving our craft. 
 
If you are motivated by meaningful technical challenges, close collaboration with clients, and the opportunity to shape both strategy and execution, we would like to meet you.</div>
Reports to: President 
Location: [Southern California / Remote] 
Type: Full-time 
Travel: 25%

About the Role

Codazen is hiring a CTO to set our technology direction, stay close enough to the work to actually build it, and be the kind of technical advisor clients genuinely want in the room. It's a player-coach role &mdash; roughly 80% vision, client advisory, and product ownership, and up to 20% hands-on building inside Harmonica, our multi-agent service delivery platform. You'll also lead how AI shows up across our service offerings and client work.

What You'll Own

Technology Vision 
Set the technology strategy across our service offerings, the Harmonica platform, and our partner ecosystem. Keep Codazen ahead of the curve on AI and emerging tech, and turn that into a roadmap the business can actually use.

Client &amp; Team Advisor 
Serve as a trusted technical advisor to client-facing teams and our top clients. You should be comfortable in a room with executives, quick to diagnose what a client actually needs, and credible enough to help shape their technical strategy alongside ours.

Harmonica Product Owner 
Own the Harmonica roadmap &mdash; prioritization, scope, quality, all of it. Stay hands-on (~20% of your time) building inside the product, both to keep your skills sharp and to keep the roadmap honest.

What Success Looks Like

Technology Vision
<ul>
<li>A documented roadmap (Harmonica, service offerings, ecosystem partners) that's actually driving prioritization decisions, not sitting in a drawer.</li>
<li>A clear Codazen point of view on AI that shows up in how we pitch and deliver work &mdash; not just internal tooling.</li>
<li>One or two ecosystem partnerships established or strengthened in year one.</li>
</ul>
Client &amp; Team Advisor
<ul>
<li>Strategic clients ask for you by name, or credit you in renewal and expansion conversations.</li>
<li>Client-facing teams trust bringing you into a deal and trust what happens after.</li>
<li>Movement on advisory-linked revenue &mdash; renewal rate, expansion revenue, or win rate on deals you're involved in.</li>
</ul>
What You'll Bring
<ul>
<li>Experience in consulting or client services, with a real client-first instinct.</li>
<li>A track record with mid-market and enterprise companies &mdash; bonus if you've sat on both sides of that relationship (in-house and as an outside advisor).</li>
<li>Deep expertise in data architecture, data strategy, and applied AI.</li>
<li>Hands-on fluency with modern AI tools &mdash; you use them, not just read about them.</li>
<li>Experience leading a small team and building real relationships with clients and colleagues.</li>
<li>Intellectual curiosity &mdash; you treat your own skills as a work in progress.</li>
<li>The ability to translate technical tradeoffs into terms a non-technical exec will actually act on.</li>
<li>Willingness and ability to travel up to 25% for client and team engagements.</li></ul> 


<div><h3 class="jobSectionHeader">What Codazen Offers</h3>
<ul><li>Competitive salary</li>
<li>Hybrid schedule with on-site electric vehicle charging</li>
<li>On-site catered meals</li>
<li>Generous paid time off and sick leave</li>
<li>Paid holidays</li>
<li>Health, dental, vision</li>
<li>401k (with company contribution)</li>
<li>Income protection plans (life, accidental death and dismemberment, short- and long-term disability)</li>
<li>Free meals, drinks and snacks</li>
<li>An incredible leadership team that cares about your development</li>
<li>Fun, smart, diverse colleagues
</li></ul>Some benefits listed apply to full time and/or on-site employees only.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.</div></div>

Kentan Staffing Solutions

<div><div><h1 class="jobSectionHeader">Founding Software Engineer
</h1>Location: New York, NY (Onsite)
Employment Type: Full-Time | Direct Hire
Compensation: $200,000&ndash;$220,000 Base Salary + Equity (Competitive Benefits)
Interview Process: 3 Interviews
<h2 class="jobSectionHeader">Position Overview
</h2>Our client, a rapidly growing AI startup revolutionizing the insurance industry, is seeking a Founding Software Engineer to join its core Engineering team. This is a unique opportunity to become an early engineering hire, helping build the platform that powers enterprise AI agents used by some of the world's largest insurance carriers.
This role is ideal for an experienced software engineer who thrives in early-stage startup environments and enjoys solving complex distributed systems challenges. You'll play a foundational role in designing scalable infrastructure, developing AI-powered platforms, and building the engineering systems that enable rapid product innovation.
The ideal candidate is highly autonomous, technically exceptional, and excited by the opportunity to own critical systems from architecture through production. Culture fit is extremely important&mdash;the team values individuals who are personable, collaborative, scrappy, and capable of moving quickly with minimal direction.
<h2 class="jobSectionHeader">Key Responsibilities
</h2><ul><li>Design, build, and maintain the core platform powering AI agents across the organization.
</li><li>Develop highly scalable backend services and infrastructure using TypeScript, SQL, and modern cloud technologies.
</li><li>Build and optimize agent orchestration, execution platforms, and developer tooling.
</li><li>Design resilient distributed systems with fault tolerance, observability, retries, and graceful degradation.
</li><li>Develop internal platforms that improve engineering productivity, CI/CD pipelines, and automation workflows.
</li><li>Partner closely with Forward Deployed Engineers to rapidly transform customer feedback into production-ready features.
</li><li>Write technical specifications, review architecture, and deliver high-quality production code.
</li><li>Improve platform reliability, performance, security, and scalability while supporting rapid company growth.
</li><li>Contribute to engineering best practices, code reviews, and long-term platform strategy.
</li></ul><h2 class="jobSectionHeader">Required Qualifications
</h2><ul><li>4+ years of experience building production software in a Software Engineer, Backend Engineer, or Platform Engineer role.
</li><li>Strong programming experience with TypeScript and SQL .
</li><li>Experience designing and building scalable backend systems and distributed applications.
</li><li>Strong understanding of system architecture, APIs, databases, and cloud infrastructure.
</li><li>Experience building highly reliable systems with monitoring, observability, retries, circuit breakers, and fault tolerance.
</li><li>Experience working in regulated or security-conscious environments with strong auditing and compliance requirements.
</li><li>Self-starter with exceptional problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently in a fast-paced startup environment.
</li><li>Must be located in or willing to relocate to New York City.
</li></ul><h2 class="jobSectionHeader">Preferred Qualifications
</h2><ul><li>Experience building AI, LLM, or agent-based platforms.
</li><li>Experience with developer platforms, CI/CD automation, and internal engineering tooling.
</li><li>Background building high-performance distributed systems or infrastructure platforms.
</li><li>Experience working in high-growth startups or founding engineering teams.
</li><li>Familiarity with cloud-native architecture, containerization, and modern DevOps practices.
</li></ul><h2 class="jobSectionHeader">What We're Looking For
</h2><ul><li>Highly autonomous engineer who takes full ownership from concept to production.
</li><li>Scrappy, resourceful, and thrives in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
</li><li>Strong technical leader with a builder's mindset and passion for creating scalable systems.
</li><li>Collaborative team player who enjoys working closely with product, engineering, and customer-facing teams.
</li><li>Passionate about leveraging AI to solve complex, real-world business challenges.
</li></ul>This is an exceptional opportunity to join a venture-backed AI startup at an early stage, working alongside an elite engineering team to build the next generation of autonomous AI systems while making a significant impact on both the product and the future direction of the company.</div></div>

Founding Software Engineer

Diligent Robotics

<div>What we're doing isn't easy, but nothing worth doing ever is.

At Diligent Robotics, we envision a future powered by robots that work seamlessly with human teams. We build artificial intelligence that enables service robots to collaborate with people and adapt to dynamic human environments. Our robots operate in complex environments such as hospitals, supporting staff so they can focus on higher-value work and patient care.

We're hiring our Founding Senior Data Engineer &mdash; the first dedicated data hire on a team that already has active analytics demand, working dashboards, and a clear plan for what comes next. You'll own the design and build of our BigQuery data warehouse, set the standards the rest of the data function will follow, and partner closely with our existing analyst team to build the analytics platform that will power the next stage of the business.

This is a hands-on senior IC role with significant architectural scope. You will set the long-term shape of our analytics platform and write much of the code that gets us there. This role is open for 100% remote work with some travel for team meetings in Austin, TX.

Key Responsibilities
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<li>Stand up the warehouse. Design and implement our BigQuery environment from the ground up &mdash; project structure, IAM, dataset organization, naming conventions, cost controls &mdash; so it scales cleanly as we add sources and users.</li>
<li>Build the transformation layer. Set up dbt as the home for our transformation logic. Migrate the business logic from our existing analytics environment into version-controlled, tested dbt models.</li>
<li>Model master data. Introduce dimensional models for our core business entities so data from different sources can be joined consistently.</li>
<li>Own ingestion. Configure native Firestore-to-BigQuery integration, then stand up Airbyte as our managed connector layer for SaaS sources and log exports as we broaden the warehouse.</li>
<li>Partner across the org. Work with source-system owners, the analyst team, and engineering teams that will eventually consume curated data from the warehouse. Help define the boundary between what the warehouse is and is not for.</li>
</ul>
Basic Qualifications
<ul>
<li>5+ years of hands-on data engineering experience, including significant work in a modern data stack (cloud warehouse + dbt + version-controlled transformations).</li>
<li>Deep, hands-on experience with BigQuery (or another columnar cloud warehouse &mdash; Snowflake, Redshift &mdash; with willingness to ramp on BigQuery quickly).</li>
<li>Deep, hands-on experience with dbt, including project structure, testing, and modeling patterns. You can debate the tradeoffs of staging vs. intermediate vs. marts layering and have opinions about when to use incremental models.</li>
<li>Strong dimensional modeling fundamentals (Kimball or equivalent). You understand conformed dimensions, slowly changing dimensions, and grain.</li>
<li>Strong SQL. Comfortable reviewing and refactoring complex SQL written by analysts.</li>
<li>Experience designing ingestion pipelines from multiple source types &mdash; operational databases, SaaS APIs, log-based sources.</li>
<li>Excellent technical communication. You can explain tradeoffs and modeling decisions to analysts, engineers, and executives.</li>
<li>Comfortable being the first dedicated data engineer in an organization &mdash; setting standards, making decisions without a peer to defer to, partnering with non-data folks.</li>
</ul>
Preferred Qualifications
<ul>
<li>Experience with Firestore and the native Firestore-to-BigQuery integration, particularly at scale (multi-project setups).</li>
<li>Experience with Airbyte (self-hosted or cloud) or comparable managed ingestion tools (Fivetran, Stitch).</li>
<li>Experience working with Elastic as a data source &mdash; extracting metrics or operational data out of Elastic indexes into downstream systems.</li>
<li>Experience designing a metrics catalog or semantic layer (dbt Semantic Layer, MetricFlow, LookML, or similar).</li></ul></div>

Founding Sr. Data Engineer

Easton Services 

Founding AI EngineerWe're building AI systems for commercial HVAC service &mdash; an industry that runs on tribal knowledge, paper trails, and senior technicians who can't be cloned.We have an enterprise anchor customer with a decade of operational history, integrations already in production, and a commercial HVAC service business in Seattle we own as our R&amp;D environment. Whatever you build, you can deploy it Monday morning to real technicians who'll tell you exactly what's helpful and what isn't. The founders have built and exited before; an experienced team owns backend, data, and integrations. Your job is the intelligence on top.The roleYou'd own the AI layer end to end &mdash; agents, orchestration, the workflows that wrap them, and the measurement that proves they work. Our AI already works in demos; you make it work as a product: correct, consistent, and trustworthy turn after turn.In your first six months, you'd likely:<ul><li>Ship the next generation of our field-facing AI assistant &mdash; voice-first, decision-trace-capturing, embedded in the technician's day</li><li>Build the agent and orchestration framework for multi-step workflows across diagnostics, planning, and field execution</li><li>Stand up the eval, retrieval, and observability infrastructure that lets us change agent behavior without regressing</li></ul>You<ul><li>Senior/Staff builder who's shipped LLM features to production backed by evals &mdash; not vibe-tuning. You treat a red eval like a red build</li><li>You've built multi-step agentic systems that interact with external tools and stay working; you know when to use one model call vs. an agent vs. a deterministic workflow, and can defend the choice</li><li>Strong on RAG, tool calling, structured output, and the infrastructure that makes them reliable &mdash; evals, observability, grounding, failure containment</li><li>You ship a first version to learn, then harden what proves useful &mdash; and you fix the class of bug, not the instance</li><li>AI tools like Claude Code write most of your code &mdash; and you stay the human in the loop. You review what the model produces, catch what it gets wrong, and own correctness and security yourself</li><li>Energized, not depleted, by messy, high-constraint environments: legacy systems, enterprise integrations, incomplete documentation</li></ul>Pay: From $180,000.00 per yearPeople with a criminal record are encouraged to applyWork Location: Remote

Founding EngineerAI

KinFitz & Co

<div>Executive Assistant, Beauty and Fragrance, Dubai
Are you an experienced Executive Assistant who thrives working directly alongside a highly driven founder, and who can move seamlessly between board level priorities and the pace of a personal brand built in the public eye?
Our client is a fast growing, globally recognised beauty and fragrance brand, founded in 2018 and now operating at genuine international scale. Based in Dubai, they are continuing to build out their own dedicated processes and leadership structure as the business matures. They are hiring an Executive Assistant to work closely with the founder and partner directly with the Chief of Staff, supporting everything from high level business projects to the day to day running of the founder&rsquo;s world.
This is not a standard nine to five support role. The founder is highly engaged and hands on across the business, and this person will need to move at her pace, often outside of typical office hours. A separate Personal Assistant handles the founder&rsquo;s personal life and logistics, so this role is firmly focused on the business side, though the two will work closely together.
What&rsquo;s in it for you:
<ul><li>Direct, close proximity to a founder who is genuinely building and shaping a category leading global brand
</li><li>Real variety, from partnering on business projects with the Chief of Staff to supporting major brand moments and high profile initiatives
</li><li>A creative, fast moving environment within the beauty and fragrance world, not a traditional corporate setting
</li><li>Base salary up to AED 25,000 per month plus 10% discretionary bonus and a strong benefits package
</li></ul>What you&rsquo;ll be doing:
<ul><li>Managing a complex, fast changing calendar alongside the Chief of Staff
</li><li>Partnering on business projects and initiatives that span the wider leadership team
</li><li>Coordinating international travel, often at short notice
</li><li>Preparing materials and briefings ahead of high level meetings
</li><li>Acting as a trusted point of contact between the founder, the Chief of Staff, and senior stakeholders
</li><li>Staying one step ahead of shifting priorities and pre empting what&rsquo;s needed before it&rsquo;s asked for
</li></ul>What we need:
<ul><li>Proven experience as an Executive Assistant supporting a founder, chairman, or senior executive in a high profile, fast paced environment
</li><li>Comfort with genuine flexibility around working hours and last minute change
</li><li>Strong international travel availability, with no visa restrictions that would prevent short notice travel to the UK or US
</li><li>Based in Dubai for the long term, this is a role for someone building a career here, not a short term stop
</li><li>Excellent judgement, discretion, and the ability to build trust quickly with senior stakeholders
</li><li>A genuine interest in beauty, fragrance, or the wider creative and lifestyle space is a strong plus
</li></ul>If you want to work at the centre of a brand that&rsquo;s still being built, not just maintained, we&rsquo;d like to hear from you.</div>

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