This is an equity-first role based in Dubai. A competitive salary kicks in post product launch, which is 3 months away. If you need a guaranteed salary from day one, this role is not for you.
About WYLE
WYLE is more than a company; it's a movement to redefine how people live, connect, and experience convenience through technology.
We're creating a unified digital ecosystem that simplifies everyday life, powered by intelligence, design, and a relentless belief in better.
If you've ever looked at the world and thought, This could be built smarter, faster, and cleaner, you already think like us.
The Role
We are looking for a hands-on Head of Engineering to own the full technical stack from day one. This is not a management-track role. This is not an oversight position. This role exists to architect, build, and evolve a production AI platform where reliability, speed, and intelligence compound directly into user trust every single day. You will work closely with the Founder and CPO on system design, technical direction, and long-term platform architecture. This role carries real ownership. The systems you build will directly determine how well WYLE executes, scales, and delivers on its promise to users. There is no downstream team to inherit your decisions, no architecture committee to defer to, and no we'll fix it in v2. If the platform is wrong, you are the person who makes it right.
You Will Own
- The full technical architecture end-to-end: AI pipelines, data layer, real-time infrastructure, APIs, and cloud
- Multi-model AI orchestration across providers: routing, fallback, tool use, and structured output at scale
- Agentic and multi-agent systems: intent classification, task decomposition, planning, and execution at production reliability
- Retrieval and memory systems: context representation, knowledge retrieval, and hybrid search at scale
- On-device intelligence: low-latency, privacy-preserving inference for real-time user interactions
- Voice AI: real-time audio processing pipelines with sub-200ms response latency
- Platform integrations: email, calendar, messaging, and third-party services
- Cloud infrastructure: scalable, cost-efficient, production-grade from day one
- Engineering standards, sprint execution, and the technical hiring roadmap
- Applied R&D that ships directly into production, gets measured, and improves over time
You Have
- 10+ years of hands-on software engineering, with complex systems shipped to real users
- Minimum 3 years in a technical leadership role where you stayed deeply in the code
- Deep production experience with large language model APIs: real reliability requirements, not demos or prototypes
- Hands-on experience building retrieval and memory systems at scale, including graph-based and sparse retrieval approaches
- Experience deploying small language models and quantized inference in production environments
- Strong backend engineering across high-performance, low-latency service architectures
- Real-time systems experience: streaming data, event pipelines, and push infrastructure
- Hands-on experience with agentic AI system design and multi-agent coordination in production
- Cloud infrastructure ownership at scale: containerisation, orchestration, CI/CD, and monitoring
- Comfort operating in ambiguity, early-stage environments, and high ownership cultures
- Currently operating as a Head of Engineering, Principal Engineer, Staff Engineer, or equivalent
Compensation
In this phase:
- This role is equity-first until product launch, approximately 3 months away
- Salary: AED 30,000 to 40,000 per month, starting post launch
- UAE Residence Visa and health insurance from day one
This role is designed for builders who want ownership over outcomes, not just compensation certainty.
Why Join Us
Because you don't just want to build models, you want to build the intelligence engine of a new kind of everyday platform in the region.
- You'll define the architecture of a platform that handles real decisions for real users, daily.
- You'll work directly with the Founder and CPO with no layers in between.
- You'll own applied engineering that ships, gets measured, improves, and compounds over time.
- You'll have the space to set standards, build the team, and scale your own playbook.
- You'll hold meaningful equity in a company built to expand beyond one city, one product, and one vertical.
- You'll be the first and most important technical hire. The decisions you make in the next 12 months will define how WYLE works for the next decade.
If this feels like the kind of build you've been waiting for, send a short intro or a note about what you've built before to [Confidential Information] or apply directly here on LinkedIn.
