Position: Head of Tech/Engineering (Relocation to UAE)
Company: United Software
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

Our aim is to become the leading Venture Studio Platform globally. We partner with entrepreneurs, offering capital and resources - such as product, tech, design, marketing and legal - to build game-changing ventures. In addition, we operate as a Venture Capital fund.

We are a team of mentors and partners on a growth mission: real capital, real connections, real people. Our network is our greatest strength, helping companies start and scale up faster than the competition. With us, there are no-frills or red tape - just building great companies with people we like to work with. 

To date, we have already launched several ventures, including: a salary advance/lending solution, a B2B food marketplace, a quick commerce delivery app, a neobank, and a crypto venture. 

**About your role and responsibilities **
Are you authentic, bold, and grounded like us? Do you think like an entrepreneur, are respectfully honest and like working in a team? Come and build the next unicorn with us! 

As a Head of Tech, you will help us build new digital ventures from scratch that people love.

**Your tasks & responsibilities:**

- Build up project-specific architecture sprints and self-responsibly lay the architectural foundation of all future ventures that we build
- Hire and lead a team of Frontend & Backend Engineers, DevOps Engineers, QA Engineers, as well as Product Managers and Designers to design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code across all of our projects
- Plan and execute Further Ventures' technology roadmap 
- Actively help to improve code quality, application speed and scalability architecture and automatization across all projects
- Refine technical standards and propagate them into the software engineering teams
- Help us further improve our Software Engineering practices and tooling, and automate reasonably many things to make us more efficient
- Drive the long term goal of creating sustainable architecture through effective cloud deployment and use of current/future technologies
- Future: Coach Software Engineering team members  

**About you**
- You have a degree in a software engineering field or have equivalent work experience
- You have 7+ years of relevant tech development experience as a lead or head
- You have solid experience in leading cross-functional teams of 5+ people
- You have hands-on experience in creating high-scale products across web and app
- You understand the limitations and necessities of the development roadmap and coordinate with senior stakeholders accordingly
- You have advanced knowledge of the best practices for web and mobile development
- You have leadership qualities, are self-motivated, curious and humble
- You are fluent in English with excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Full-time availability in Abu Dhabi (freelance or part-time not possible)

**Bonus points if:**
You are familiar with agile methodologies and design sprint experience

**What you can expect**
- Attractive compensation based on your experience
- A great office space at Al Raha beach, less than an hour from Dubai Marina 
- A remote culture, which allows you to be flexible within the UAE
- A highly dynamic and energetic environment with a lot of opportunities to grow
- Space for your own ideas and taking responsibility fast
- Fame and glory for what you will have helped build
- A relocation package and quarterly return flights back home (if coming from outside the UAE)
- Extensive health insurance package
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