Position: CTO of a payments startup in Saudi Arabia
Company: Ralabs
Category: Lead
Experience required: 5y
English level: fluent

We are looking for a **Chief Technical Officer** to join our company and help us to build the **BNPL platform** for our client from **Saudi Arabia.**

**The client**
Our client works on the innovation of alternative payment channels and solutions that help users reach and enjoy what they need easily and safely at an affordable cost.
The client’s company belongs to a group company that works in the field of the food and beverage industry. Also, the group has a chain of supermarkets and restaurants in KSA.

**What is a challenge?**
The client has decided to launch a BNPL service in the KSA market.  According to that, we are actively looking for a professional Technology partner that we can depend on to build us the BNPL platform that we will use to launch the services in the market successfully. 

**Requirements:**
**Technical skills:**
- Experience in the payments industry with an understanding of the technical; challenges in building and scaling a payments platform;
- Strong knowledge of platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP;
- Experience with distributed systems and microservices architecture;
- Experience with security and compliance in the payments industry;
- Experience in setting and managing technical roadmaps.

**Communication skills:**
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in **Arabic and English;**
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences;
- Ability to build and lead a high-performing engineering team;
- Ability to work cross-functionally with other departments, such as product, marketing, and sales.

**Would be a plus:**
- Experience with open-source software;
- Experience with big data and analytics;
- Experience with ML and AI;
- Experience in the startup ecosystem.

**Responsibilities**
- Develop and execute the overall technology strategy for the fintech project.
-  Lead and manage a team of skilled software engineers, developers, data scientists, and IT professionals to foster a collaborative and innovative work environment.
- Oversee the end-to-end product development lifecycle, from conceptualization to deployment and maintenance
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product management, business development, and operations
-  Identify potential technology-related risks and develop contingency plans to mitigate them,