We are looking for a Transformation Architect to join our team. This is a fully remote role based in Dubai, reporting to the Solutions Consulting Director within the Solutions Consulting department.

Transformation architects work at the cutting-edge of Zscaler’s platform to create a multi-year cybersecurity vision together with our largest customers. This role is strongly customer-oriented and therefore requires engagement at mid-senior to practitioner levels within organisations while rewarding individuals who relish in-depth analysis of both business imperatives and technology infrastructure. Additionally, this role encourages lateral and creative thinking to guide customers drawn across all verticals towards a more secure, simplified future while constantly evangelising the benefits of a true zero trust approach along the way.

What you’ll do (Role Expectations)

• Drive Architecture Value by demonstrating the strategic value and ROI of platform offerings
• Lead Technical Evangelism and Champion Building through community engagement, technical content, and empowering internal advocates
• Execute Discovery and Qualification to uncover deep customer needs and align them with technical solutions
• Utilize Storytelling techniques to build emotional connections and enhance the impact of sales presentations
• Maintain Market awareness and competitive knowledge to tailor sales approaches based on in-depth analysis

Who You Are (Success Profile)

• You act like an owner. Your passion for the mission fuels your bias for action. You operate with integrity because you genuinely care about the outcome. You adapt to what’s needed, navigating seamlessly between high-level strategy and hands-on execution.
• You are a high-trust collaborator. You are ambitious for the team, not just yourself. You embrace our challenge culture by giving and receiving ongoing feedback—knowing that candor delivered with clarity and respect is the truest form of teamwork and the fastest way to earn trust.
• You are a learner. You have a true growth mindset and never stop developing yourself, actively seeking feedback to become a better partner and a stronger teammate. You love what you do and you do it with purpose.
• You are customer-obsessed. You build deep empathy for the customer—both internal and external—and anchor your decisions in solving their real-world problems. You champion their needs from start to finish, knowing their success is our success.
• You operate with urgency. You understand that in a high-growth environment, speed and quality are not mutually exclusive. You have a relentless focus on execution and a bias for action, delivering high-impact results quickly to win for the customer and the team.

What We’re Looking for (Minimum Qualifications)

• Extensive related experience in enterprise architecture, networking, or security
• Excellent knowledge of enterprise architecture combined with advanced working knowledge of networking or security, coupled with a mid-level understanding of the data protection and security operations segments
• Strong business acumen with the ability to pivot and control conversations during meetings to achieve desired outcomes
• Proven skill in building long-term, trusted relationships with key stakeholders
• Ability to develop tailored sales approaches informed by a thorough analysis of market dynamics and competitive landscapes

What Will Make You Stand Out (Preferred Qualifications)

• Practical background in planning, designing, and implementing digital transformation within large multinational companies as a CXO, Enterprise Architect, or consultant
• Demonstrated ability to map technology benefits to realised business value
• Broad technology experience covering TCP/IP protocol stack, DNS, BGP routing, SD-WAN, GRE, IPsec, Layer-7 firewalls, Web Proxies, and Data Loss Prevention

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Required:

• 3+ in Windows desktop application development using Windows App SDK, WinUI (or similar), C#, XAML — and ideally additional experience with native Windows code (C++, Win32/WinRT/COM).
• Deep understanding of Windows application architecture, including interop between managed code (.NET) and native code.
• Proven track record of designing, building, and shipping production-quality desktop applications, with an emphasis on reliability, performance, scalability, and maintainability.
• Strong experience with accessibility APIs on Windows (e.g. Microsoft UI Automation or similar), and a dedication to building accessible and inclusive software.
• Excellent software engineering fundamentals: OOP, design patterns, data structures, algorithms, memory management, multi-threading or asynchronous programming (where relevant).
• Experience leading technical design, mentoring other engineers, conducting code reviews, and making architecture-level decisions.
• Strong communication skills; ability to articulate tradeoffs, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive consensus.
• A user-centric mindset: focus on building polished, intuitive, and accessible experiences for end users.

Preferred / Bonus:

• Experience with writing automated tests for UI — unit tests, integration tests, UI automation tests; familiarity with relevant testing frameworks.
• Experience with performance optimization for desktop apps (memory usage, startup time, rendering performance, high-DPI support, responsiveness under load).
• Experience with localization/globalization, right-to-left UI support, internationalization, accessibility for multiple regions.
• Familiarity with telemetry, analytics, crash reporting, logging, and error monitoring in desktop applications.
• Previous experience in shaping CI/CD workflows, release pipelines, and deployment strategies for desktop applications.
• Demonstrated ability to take ownership of feature areas or modules and drive them long-term, including maintenance, refactoring, and technical debt management.

What we offer

• A high-impact role: you will define architecture, shape the future of our Windows product, and directly influence what millions of users see and experience.
• A collaborative, flat-structure engineering culture — you are not just a coder, but a builder and a decision-maker.
• Opportunities to lead — mentor others, steer technical direction, and grow into broader technical leadership (e.g. Tech Lead, Architect).
• Flexibility, autonomy, and responsibility: you define how to solve problems, own features end-to-end, and contribute to long-term product vision.
• A purpose-driven mission: building software that’s reliable, accessible, and user-centered — making a real difference for people.                  

Think you’re a good fit for this job? 

Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply.
And don’t forget to include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn.

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Refer them! 

Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. 
Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

Required:

• 3+ in Windows desktop application development using Windows App SDK, WinUI (or similar), C#, XAML — and ideally additional experience with native Windows code (C++, Win32/WinRT/COM).
• Deep understanding of Windows application architecture, including interop between managed code (.NET) and native code.
• Proven track record of designing, building, and shipping production-quality desktop applications, with an emphasis on reliability, performance, scalability, and maintainability.
• Strong experience with accessibility APIs on Windows (e.g. Microsoft UI Automation or similar), and a dedication to building accessible and inclusive software.
• Excellent software engineering fundamentals: OOP, design patterns, data structures, algorithms, memory management, multi-threading or asynchronous programming (where relevant).
• Experience leading technical design, mentoring other engineers, conducting code reviews, and making architecture-level decisions.
• Strong communication skills; ability to articulate tradeoffs, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive consensus.
• A user-centric mindset: focus on building polished, intuitive, and accessible experiences for end users.

Preferred / Bonus:

• Experience with writing automated tests for UI — unit tests, integration tests, UI automation tests; familiarity with relevant testing frameworks.
• Experience with performance optimization for desktop apps (memory usage, startup time, rendering performance, high-DPI support, responsiveness under load).
• Experience with localization/globalization, right-to-left UI support, internationalization, accessibility for multiple regions.
• Familiarity with telemetry, analytics, crash reporting, logging, and error monitoring in desktop applications.
• Previous experience in shaping CI/CD workflows, release pipelines, and deployment strategies for desktop applications.
• Demonstrated ability to take ownership of feature areas or modules and drive them long-term, including maintenance, refactoring, and technical debt management.

What we offer

• A high-impact role: you will define architecture, shape the future of our Windows product, and directly influence what millions of users see and experience.
• A collaborative, flat-structure engineering culture — you are not just a coder, but a builder and a decision-maker.
• Opportunities to lead — mentor others, steer technical direction, and grow into broader technical leadership (e.g. Tech Lead, Architect).
• Flexibility, autonomy, and responsibility: you define how to solve problems, own features end-to-end, and contribute to long-term product vision.
• A purpose-driven mission: building software that’s reliable, accessible, and user-centered — making a real difference for people.                  

Think you’re a good fit for this job? 

Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply.
And don’t forget to include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn.

Not looking but know someone who would make a great fit? 
Refer them! 

Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. 
Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

Available Location: Dubai

About the Role

We are seeking a highly accomplished and strategic Account Executive to join our Digital Natives team in Dubai. In this advanced role, you will be pivotal in driving significant growth by leading comprehensive sales cycles within a portfolio of assigned enterprise-level clients, and strategically acquiring new logos. The ideal candidate possesses a deep blend of advanced sales acumen and sophisticated technical understanding, enabling them to lead engagements at all levels, from the C-suite to technical leaders (e.g., Head of/VP of Networking or Security).

As an Account Executive, you will consistently demonstrate advanced proficiency in all sales activities, ensuring highly accurate forecasting, proactive and strategic pipeline management, and consistently exceeding attainment targets. You will be a subject matter expert, speaking fluently about Cloudflare's products, features, benefits, and use cases across diverse customer segments. This role demands the ability to deeply understand complex customer IT Architectures, match them with relevant Cloudflare Reference Architectures, and orchestrate successful, large-scale platform sales. You will be a key driver of digital transformation for our customers, understanding their broader market trends and how Cloudflare uniquely enables their strategic initiatives.

Regional Focus: Middle East & North Africa

What You'll Do

• Strategic Revenue Generation: Architect and execute advanced territory and account plans to consistently exceed multi-million dollar sales targets and annual quotas, with a strong focus on new business acquisition and expansion within complex enterprise environments.
• Expert Pipeline & Forecasting: Lead proactive and strategic pipeline management efforts, demonstrating a sophisticated understanding of sales cycles and customer buying processes. Deliver highly accurate forecasts, providing clear insights and strategic guidance to sales leadership.
• Deep Customer & IT Architecture Understanding: Develop a profound understanding of customers' IT architectures, including applications and third-party technologies. Architect and align Cloudflare Reference Architectures to customer environments, driving comprehensive platform solutions.
• Multi-Engagement Leadership: Orchestrate and manage multiple complex customer engagements simultaneously across various business units within an organization. Strategically connect disparate needs to strengthen Cloudflare's platform sale, actively involving and influencing technical C-level minus one executives.
• Virtual Team Leadership: Set clear direction and lead a virtual team of in-GEO specialists, Product Managers, Deal Desk, and Legal to collaboratively manage and close complex customer opportunities. Proactively identify and navigate through situations to address colleague and customer needs, escalating as appropriate to drive urgency and efficient delivery.
• Digital Transformation Authority: Act as an authority on digital transformation, understanding key drivers (e.g., new offering development, enhanced customer capabilities) and the broader market trends influencing these decisions. Position Cloudflare as a critical enabler of these transformations.
• Compelling Value Creation: Articulate highly compelling, strategic value propositions for Cloudflare's services, directly linking them to customer business outcomes and strategic objectives. Lead with a strong focus on the "why," communicating the whole picture to both internal and external stakeholders.
• Advanced Negotiation & Closure: Expertly lead and navigate complex contract negotiations, driving win-win scenarios for all parties. Demonstrate advanced closing skills across new business and expansion opportunities.
• Trusted Advisor & Coach: Build long-term, executive-level strategic relationships, ensuring deep customer adoption, retention, and expansion. Consistently provide clear, direct, and constructive feedback to team members, coaching them to improve communication, learn from mistakes, and enhance the quality of work. Share learnings proactively to build trust across the organization.
• Organizational Impact & Leadership: Consistently focus on the long-term needs of the team and the business, understanding how decisions impact other teams and openly sharing these insights. Leverage company-wide learnings to improve department and team execution. Serve as a leader within Cloudflare, making significant contributions while elevating the work of others by bringing diverse perspectives and strategic long-term thinking.

Examples of Desirable Skills, Knowledge, and Experience

• Language Skills: Fluency in both English and Arabic (written and spoken) is required. French is a plus.
• 8+ years of advanced experience selling complex technology solutions in a B2B enterprise model, with a significant track record of consistently exceeding multi-million dollar quota targets.
• Deep expertise and fluency in Cloud Networking, Security, and Edge Computing technologies, with an exceptional ability to articulate features, benefits, and use cases across diverse customer segments (e.g., SMBs, enterprise, vertical markets).
• Proven ability to deeply understand complex customer IT architectures and effectively map them to Cloudflare Reference Architectures for successful platform sales.
• Demonstrated success leading and influencing virtual cross-functional teams (e.g., Solution Engineers, Product Managers, Legal) to drive complex deals to closure.
• Exceptional strategic communication and presentation skills, with a focus on articulating the "why" and conveying the whole picture to executive leadership and technical decision-makers (C-level minus one).
• Advanced negotiation skills with a track record of closing large, complex, six-figure and multi-million dollar deals.
• Expert-level sales acumen: unparalleled proficiency in discovery, positioning, competitive selling, negotiation, closing, and expansion strategies within enterprise accounts.
• Authority on digital transformation trends and their impact on enterprise customers, with the ability to position Cloudflare as a key enabler of strategic business outcomes.
• Strong coaching and mentorship abilities, with a passion for helping colleagues grow and improve.
• Highly self-motivated, entrepreneurial, and resilient, thriving in a fast-paced, high-growth environment with a consistent focus on long-term goals.
• Proficiency in advanced sales and business intelligence platforms (e.g., Salesforce, Tableau, G-suite, MSFT suite, MEDDPICC framework application).
• Bachelor's degree required, with a technical background (e.g., engineering, computer science, MIS) highly preferred.
• Ability to travel up to 50% to engage with key customers and internal teams.

Available Location: Dubai

About the Role

We are seeking a highly accomplished and strategic Account Executive to join our Field Sales team. In this advanced role, you will be pivotal in driving significant growth by leading comprehensive sales cycles within a portfolio of assigned enterprise-level clients, and strategically acquiring new logos. The ideal candidate possesses a deep blend of advanced sales acumen and sophisticated technical understanding, enabling them to lead engagements at all levels, from the C-suite to technical leaders (e.g., Head of/VP of Networking or Security).

As an Account Executive, you will consistently demonstrate advanced proficiency in all sales activities, ensuring highly accurate forecasting, proactive and strategic pipeline management, and consistently exceeding attainment targets. You will be a subject matter expert, speaking fluently about Cloudflare's products, features, benefits, and use cases across diverse customer segments. This role demands the ability to deeply understand complex customer IT Architectures, match them with relevant Cloudflare Reference Architectures, and orchestrate successful, large-scale platform sales. You will be a key driver of digital transformation for our customers, understanding their broader market trends and how Cloudflare uniquely enables their strategic initiatives.

Regional Focus: Qatar

What You'll Do

• Strategic Revenue Generation: Architect and execute advanced territory and account plans to consistently exceed multi-million dollar sales targets and annual quotas, with a strong focus on new business acquisition and expansion within complex enterprise environments.
• Expert Pipeline & Forecasting: Lead proactive and strategic pipeline management efforts, demonstrating a sophisticated understanding of sales cycles and customer buying processes. Deliver highly accurate forecasts, providing clear insights and strategic guidance to sales leadership.
• Deep Customer & IT Architecture Understanding: Develop a profound understanding of customers' IT architectures, including applications and third-party technologies. Architect and align Cloudflare Reference Architectures to customer environments, driving comprehensive platform solutions.
• Multi-Engagement Leadership: Orchestrate and manage multiple complex customer engagements simultaneously across various business units within an organization. Strategically connect disparate needs to strengthen Cloudflare's platform sale, actively involving and influencing technical C-level minus one executives.
• Virtual Team Leadership: Set clear direction and lead a virtual team of in-GEO specialists, Product Managers, Deal Desk, and Legal to collaboratively manage and close complex customer opportunities. Proactively identify and navigate through situations to address colleague and customer needs, escalating as appropriate to drive urgency and efficient delivery.
• Digital Transformation Authority: Act as an authority on digital transformation, understanding key drivers (e.g., new offering development, enhanced customer capabilities) and the broader market trends influencing these decisions. Position Cloudflare as a critical enabler of these transformations.
• Compelling Value Creation: Articulate highly compelling, strategic value propositions for Cloudflare's services, directly linking them to customer business outcomes and strategic objectives. Lead with a strong focus on the "why," communicating the whole picture to both internal and external stakeholders.
• Advanced Negotiation & Closure: Expertly lead and navigate complex contract negotiations, driving win-win scenarios for all parties. Demonstrate advanced closing skills across new business and expansion opportunities.
• Trusted Advisor & Coach: Build long-term, executive-level strategic relationships, ensuring deep customer adoption, retention, and expansion. Consistently provide clear, direct, and constructive feedback to team members, coaching them to improve communication, learn from mistakes, and enhance the quality of work. Share learnings proactively to build trust across the organization.
• Organizational Impact & Leadership: Consistently focus on the long-term needs of the team and the business, understanding how decisions impact other teams and openly sharing these insights. Leverage company-wide learnings to improve department and team execution. Serve as a leader within Cloudflare, making significant contributions while elevating the work of others by bringing diverse perspectives and strategic long-term thinking.

Examples of Desirable Skills, Knowledge, and Experience

• 8+ years of advanced experience selling complex technology solutions in a B2B enterprise model across Qatar, with a significant track record of consistently exceeding multi-million dollar quota targets.
• Deep expertise and fluency in Cloud Networking, Security, and Edge Computing technologies, with an exceptional ability to articulate features, benefits, and use cases across diverse customer segments (e.g., SMBs, enterprise, vertical markets).
• Proven ability to deeply understand complex customer IT architectures and effectively map them to Cloudflare Reference Architectures for successful platform sales.
• Demonstrated success leading and influencing virtual cross-functional teams (e.g., Solution Engineers, Product Managers, Legal) to drive complex deals to closure.
• Exceptional strategic communication and presentation skills, with a focus on articulating the "why" and conveying the whole picture to executive leadership and technical decision-makers (C-level minus one).
• Advanced negotiation skills with a track record of closing large, complex, six-figure and multi-million dollar deals.
• Expert-level sales acumen: unparalleled proficiency in discovery, positioning, competitive selling, negotiation, closing, and expansion strategies within enterprise accounts.
• Authority on digital transformation trends and their impact on enterprise customers, with the ability to position Cloudflare as a key enabler of strategic business outcomes.
• Strong coaching and mentorship abilities, with a passion for helping colleagues grow and improve.
• Highly self-motivated, entrepreneurial, and resilient, thriving in a fast-paced, high-growth environment with a consistent focus on long-term goals.
• Proficiency in advanced sales and business intelligence platforms (e.g., Salesforce, Tableau, G-suite, MSFT suite, MEDDPICC framework application).
• Bachelor's degree required, with a technical background (e.g., engineering, computer science, MIS) highly preferred.
• Ability to travel as required to engage with key customers and internal teams.
• Language Skills: Fluency in English (spoken and written).

Artefact is a new generation of data service providers, specialising in data consulting and data-driven digital marketing. It is dedicated to transforming data into business impact across the entire value chain of organisations. We are proud to say we’re enjoying skyrocketing growth.The backbone of our consulting missions, today our Data consulting team has more than 400 consultants covering all Artefact's offers (and more): data marketing, data governance, strategy consulting, product owner…

About the role ...

As a Cloud Architect Manager at Artefact, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and overseeing robust, scalable, and secure cloud solutions that support our clients’ data and technology ecosystems. You will collaborate closely with technical teams and business stakeholders to ensure cloud architecture is aligned with business needs, optimizing tool selection, cost efficiency, and scalability. Additionally, you will lead technical teams, mentor engineers, and contribute to Artefact’s growth by driving innovation and promoting best practices in cloud technology.

What you'll be doing ...

• Lead the design and implementation of cloud infrastructure architectures (cloud, on-premise, hybrid) aligned with business requirements.
• Define and enforce best practices for cloud platform deployment and configuration, security, networking, operations and tools selection.
• Oversee the integration of cloud platforms with data pipelines, storage, and compute services.
• Standardize coding, deployment, and monitoring practices across cloud environments.
• Design and implement automated solutions to set up, monitor, and adjust cloud infrastructure efficiently.
• Lead problem-solving initiatives for complex technical challenges related to cloud environments.
• Provide technical leadership across multiple cloud projects, ensuring efficient resource management.
• Foster teamwork by mentoring, coaching and guiding cloud engineers and ensuring knowledge transfer.
• Manage client relationships regarding project expectations, timelines, and outcomes.
• Contribute to Artefact's growth by maintaining tech partnerships, leading technical proposals to support project planning and identify potential growth areas with existing accounts.

What you'll need ...

• Proven experience designing and implementing cloud architectures on Azure at scale
• Strong expertise in cloud security, networking, and compliance frameworks.
• Led the end-to-end design of highly available, secure, and cost-optimized Azure environments for enterprise customers, leveraging services such as Azure Virtual Network, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and Azure App Service.
• Defined multi-region DR/HA architectures using Azure Traffic Manager, paired regions, and Azure Site Recovery, achieving RTOs under 1 hour for mission-critical workloads.
• Enable automated patching, scaling, and monitoring tasks via Azure DevOps YAML pipelines and PowerShell DSC, improving operational efficiency.
• Deep understanding of cloud cost optimization, monitoring, and high availability design patterns.
• Collaborated with data engineers to optimize architectures on Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, Synapse, and MS Fabric
• Strong leadership capabilities with experience managing technical teams and large-scale projects.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including experience creating business-focused presentations.
• Demonstrated problem-solving abilities for complex, multi-disciplinary cloud projects.
• Experience managing senior stakeholders and navigating client discussions effectively.
• Ability to mentor, coach, and develop technical teams in cloud engineering best practices.
• A track record of contributing to business growth through technical innovation and strategic initiatives.

Calling senior technology leaders to shape the future of engineering in the Middle East!

Are you a senior tech leader with deep roots in the Middle East, looking for a way to bring your global experience back to the region? Have you been considering a move, driven by a desire to make a lasting impact?

At Careem, our journey started with a simple purpose: to simplify and improve the lives of people in the Greater Middle East. From our beginnings as a ride-hailing service, we’ve grown into the region’s first Everything App, but our mission remains the same. We’re not just a tech company; we’re a team of builders, dreamers, and doers, working to create a better future for our region.

We’re looking to connect with senior tech professionals like you. If you’ve built and scaled complex engineering systems, platforms, or infrastructure in high-growth tech environments, we want to hear from you. Your expertise is exactly what’s needed to shape the future of engineering culture and technical foundations in the region.

We’re particularly interested in leaders who:

• Lead Internal Engineering Initiatives: Design and build scalable, secure, and maintainable systems that accelerate engineering productivity and reliability across Careem.

• Architect Scalable Solutions: Define system architecture for complex backend systems with a focus on performance, modularity, and extensibility, leveraging deep expertise in Java, Golang, and modern platforms.

• Drive Impact in Data & AI: Apply machine learning, platformization, and agentic AI innovation to unlock new capabilities and improve customer experiences at scale.

• Product Mindset & Strategic Influence: Shape roadmaps and drive technical decisions with a product-centric mindset, ensuring solutions directly impact customer and business outcomes.

• Technical Excellence & Culture: Uphold high standards in code quality, system design, testing, and operational excellence while nurturing a strong engineering culture across MENA.

• Mentorship and Knowledge Sharing: Mentor engineers across teams, foster continuous learning, and grow technical leadership capacity within the organization.

• Efficiency and Automation: Streamline workflows and reduce toil through automation in CI/CD, observability, and configuration management.

• Cross-functional Collaboration: Partner with platform, infrastructure, product, and security teams to deliver robust and aligned solutions.

• Long-term Vision & Purpose: Contribute to Careem’s mission of shaping the future of mobility, fintech, and everyday services in the region by building lasting technical foundations

This is your chance to use your skills and experience to truly make a difference. We are creating an Everything App that will have a massive positive impact on our communities. We're creating income opportunities for our Captains and simplifying daily life for our customers.

This is more than a job. It's an opportunity to lead a mission that matters.

Ready to shape the future of the Middle East?

About the Role

As a Staff Data Scientist I – Matching, you will own the end-to-end matching and dispatch architecture for Careem’s Food and Groceries verticals. You will design and implement real-time assignment systems that optimize cost, SLA compliance, and marketplace efficiency at scale.

This role sits at the core of the marketplace engine solving complex, multi-objective optimization problems under uncertainty. You will build systems that dynamically match orders to captains, optimize batching and pooling decisions, and continuously re-optimize as new information arrives. You will operate as a senior technical IC, leading architecture decisions, mentoring other data scientists, and setting optimization standards across the domain.

What You'll Do

1. Matching & Dispatch Architecture Ownership

• Design and own the end-to-end matching and dispatch systems for Food & Groceries.
• Architect scalable assignment frameworks incorporating:
• Static and dynamic assignment
• Online matching under uncertainty
• Batch and pooling optimization
• Continuous re-optimization with dynamic events
• Establish robust optimization standards and best practices across the organization.

2. Multi-Objective Optimization & Algorithm Development

• Formulate and implement multi-objective optimization models balancing:
• Cost minimization
• SLA compliance
• Marketplace efficiency
• Develop and deploy:
• Min-cost flow and assignment models
• Graph-based optimization frameworks
• Custom solvers and OR-Tools based solutions
• Incorporate stochastic elements and uncertainty-aware decision-making into assignment policies.
• Continuously refine matching quality under high-scale marketplace conditions.

3. Real-Time Systems & Production Delivery

• Build production-grade real-time matching systems using Python, Spark, and Trino.
• Design scalable pipelines capable of handling large-scale, high-throughput marketplace events.
• Collaborate with Engineering and Platform teams to ensure reliable model serving and system performance.
• Lead performance monitoring, diagnostics, and system optimization.

4. Experimentation & Impact Measurement

• Define evaluation metrics aligned with marketplace and operational objectives.
• Design and run controlled experiments to quantify matching improvements.
• Analyze system trade-offs and communicate clear, data-driven recommendations to Product and Operations stakeholders.
• Ensure decisions translate into measurable improvements in efficiency and SLA performance.

What You'll Need

• 6–8+ years of experience in Applied Machine Learning, Optimization, or Data Science.
• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Operations Research, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field.
• Strong expertise in:
• Optimization and assignment algorithms
• Graph modeling and min-cost flow problems
• Multi-objective optimization
• Dynamic and online decision systems
• Hands-on experience with OR-Tools or custom optimization solvers.
• Proficiency in Python, SQL, Spark, and distributed data systems.
• Experience building real-time or near-real-time decision systems.
• Strong understanding of experimentation and performance evaluation in marketplace systems.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain algorithmic trade-offs in business terms.

What we’ll provide you

We offer colleagues the opportunity to drive impact in the region while they learn and grow. As a full time Careem colleague, you will be able to:

• Work and learn from great minds by joining a community of inspiring colleagues.
• Put your passion to work in a purposeful organisation dedicated to creating impact in a region with a lot of untapped potential.
• Explore new opportunities to learn and grow every day.
• Work 4 days a week in office & 1 day from home, and remotely from any country in the world for 30 days a year with unlimited vacation days per year. (If you are in an individual contributor role in tech, you will have 2 office days a week and 3 to work from home.)
• Access to healthcare benefits and fitness reimbursements for health activities including gym, health club, and training classes.

About the Role

As a Staff Data Scientist I – ETA, you will own the end-to-end ETA prediction systems for Careem’s Food and Groceries verticals. This is a highly technical Individual Contributor role with full domain ownership across architecture, modeling strategy, experimentation, production deployment, and operational excellence.

You will define the long-term vision for ETA systems in high-load, latency-sensitive marketplace environments. You will design and implement multi-stage stochastic pipelines that model preparation time, assignment delay, pickup time, travel time, batching, and pooling effects delivering reliable, calibrated predictions at scale. This role requires deep expertise in time-series forecasting, deep learning, and operations research combined with strong production experience in distributed and real-time systems. You will collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, Marketplace, and Operations leaders, ensuring ETA becomes a core competitive advantage in Careem’s Everything App.

What You'll Do

1. ETA Vision & Architecture Ownership

• Define and own the long-term technical vision for ETA systems across Food and Groceries.
• Architect scalable, multi-stage pipelines.
• Design probabilistic and stochastic modeling approaches with uncertainty calibration and reliability guarantees.
• Establish modeling standards and best practices for ETA across the organization.

2. Advanced Modeling & Algorithm Development

• Develop and deploy production-grade ML systems leveraging:
• Deep learning architectures
• Time-series forecasting
• Graph-based and routing-aware models
• Operations research techniques
• Build models robust to marketplace volatility and supply-demand shifts.
• Optimize for both point accuracy and distributional correctness (confidence intervals, tail control).
• Continuously improve system performance under high traffic and low-latency constraints.

3. Production Systems & Real-Time Inference

• Design and deploy scalable real-time inference pipelines.
• Ensure model reliability, monitoring, alerting, and graceful degradation under load.
• Collaborate with Data Platform and ML Ops teams to productionize models using Spark, Trino, Python, and distributed frameworks.
• Lead model lifecycle management, retraining strategies, and performance tracking in live environments.

4. Experimentation & Marketplace Impact

• Define clear evaluation frameworks aligned with business metrics (conversion, cancellations, fulfillment efficiency, customer trust).
• Design and run controlled experiments to measure ETA improvements and marketplace impact.
• Drive measurable improvements in operational efficiency and user experience through data-driven insights.

5. Technical Leadership & Cross-Team Influence

• Lead cross-team architectural discussions.
• Conduct design reviews and raise the technical bar for modeling quality and system robustness.
• Mentor senior data scientists and engineers in advanced ML and modeling techniques.
• Contribute to Careem’s applied AI community through technical talks, documentation, and research initiatives.
  
  

What You'll Need

• 8+ years of experience in Applied Machine Learning or Data Science, with significant experience building large-scale production systems.
• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering, Operations Research, or a related quantitative field.
• Proven expertise in:
• Time-series forecasting
• Deep learning
• Stochastic modeling
• Operations research and optimization
• Strong experience building and deploying high-load, low-latency ML systems.
• Hands-on proficiency in Python, Spark and ML frameworks.
• Experience with real-time inference systems and model monitoring in production.
• Strong understanding of experimentation, A/B testing, and causal inference.
• Demonstrated ability to drive architectural decisions across teams.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to translate complex modeling trade-offs into business impact.
  
  

What we’ll provide you

We offer colleagues the opportunity to drive impact in the region while they learn and grow. As a full time Careem colleague, you will be able to:

• Work and learn from great minds by joining a community of inspiring colleagues.
• Put your passion to work in a purposeful organisation dedicated to creating impact in a region with a lot of untapped potential.
• Explore new opportunities to learn and grow every day.
• Work 4 days a week in office & 1 day from home, and remotely from any country in the world for 30 days a year with unlimited vacation days per year. (If you are in an individual contributor role in tech, you will have 2 office days a week and 3 to work from home.)
• Access to healthcare benefits and fitness reimbursements for health activities including gym, health club, and training classes.

The Mission
We believe the transformative potential of AI is significantly under-realised in our region. To bridge this gap, we are incubating a new division within Careem dedicated to Enterprise AI Transformation. 
We are reimagining and building the future of work to simplify and improve how businesses function in the era of GenAI with WorkOS: a next-generation ‘operating system’ designed to deploy, orchestrate, and improve AI agents across every customer and operational journey (and increasingly autonomously). This isn’t just automation; it’s about creating a hybrid workforce where self-learning AI agents handle the heavy lifting, empowering our people to focus on the highest-value, most creative work.

The Team
This group operates as a startup within Careem with a distinct mandate: move fast, build boldly, and deliver production-grade AI systems that fundamentally change how the region leverages technology. 

The Opportunity
We are looking for an exceptional founding Backend Engineer to build the WorkOS platform. This is a role for a systems-thinker who wants to work at the intersection of high-scale distributed systems and AI orchestration. You will be responsible for building the "brain" of WorkOS, the engine that deploys and manages autonomous agents across the region’s most complex operational journeys at massive scale.

As one of the first engineers in WorkOS, you will have a disproportionate impact on our technical foundation, culture, and the speed at which we move from 0 to 1.

What You’ll Do

• Architect and Build the WorkOS Engine: Design and build the scalable backend services and architectures required to orchestrate complex AI workflows and real-time data streaming. Leverage novel technologies to build cutting-edge capabilities. 
• Set the Engineering Gold Standard: As a founding member, you will establish our backend best practices, from CI/CD and observability to security and system integrity, ensuring a high-velocity but rigorous engineering culture.
• Solve for Distributed Complexity: Navigate the unique challenges of integrating AI agents into legacy enterprise stacks, ensuring low-latency communication and robust data consistency.
• Database design: Build our data infrastructure, leveraging relational, schemaless, and vector stores to power the platform and create persistent brains for our Agents. 
• Full-Cycle Ownership: Own the lifecycle of the platform, from rapid prototyping of new agent capabilities to maintaining production-grade systems at enterprise scale.
• Drive AI-Accelerated Engineering: Constantly experiment with AI-assisted development to move faster than traditional teams, while maintaining a bar for superb technical quality and craft.
• Lead Pioneer Deployments: While building the core platform, you will occasionally lead the charge on first-of-their-kind implementations for strategic partners, ensuring our tech solves real-world operational complexity.
• Operate with High Agency: In this lean, startup-style environment, you will be responsible for outcomes over inputs, rolling your sleeves up to code and balancing investments in the long-term technical roadmap with the need to ship value quickly.

What You’ll Need: 

• 8–12+ years of professional backend engineering experience, with significant tenure acting as a Staff Engineer or Technical Lead for complex, high-scale distributed systems.
• Mastery of Backend Systems: Deep expertise in languages like Python, Go, or Node.js, with a proven track record of architecting concurrency, microservices, and high-throughput data pipelines.
• AI-Native Infrastructure Depth: Hands-on experience with LLM orchestration (LangChain, etc.), vector databases (Pinecone, Milvus), and RAG architectures at a production-grade level.
• Systems-Level Visionary: The ability to design "platform-first", thinking in terms of APIs, modularity, and extensibility so that the WorkOS core can support infinite customer use cases.
• Obsession with Performance: A specialist's focus on latency and system observability; you believe that AI interactions must feel "instant" and "bulletproof" to be valuable.
• Startup-level Autonomy: Comfortable navigating a "0-to-1" environment where you define the technical roadmap and ship high-quality code without a playbook.
• Willingness to work on-site full time in UAE, to foster the high-intensity collaboration required for this incubation phase.
• Experience with enterprise software transformation or legacy system integration is a significant plus.

What You’ll Receive:

• A Blank Canvas and Live Ammunition: The rare opportunity to build a "0-to-1" product while immediately deploying it into the real-world operations of a regional giant. No "sandbox" projects here, you’ll be shipping code that moves people and goods on day one. This is a huge opportunity to create impact in our region. 
• Architecting the Engine: We’re a lean, impact-obsessed team operating with total autonomy. You’ll be free from corporate bureaucracy and legacy baggage, focused entirely on building the core orchestration layer and agentic frameworks that will serve as the "brain" of the region’s enterprises.
• Direct Collaboration with Leadership: Direct engagement with Careem and enterprise client leadership, in addition to working side-by-side with the WorkOS founding team including Magnus Olsson (Careem’s original Co-founder). 
• Competitive Compensation: Including direct equity in this new division. Our philosophy is meritocratic: we want you to own a meaningful stake in the value you create.

About the Role

We’re looking for senior technical leaders who can architect and scale intelligent systems that architect the "brain" of our dark store operations. As a senior data scientist you won’t just be building models, you’ll be optimizing the lifecycle of millions of items from the moment they leave a supplier to the moment they reach a customer’s doorstep in under 20 minutes. You will tackle the classic "perishable trade-off" ensuring our shelves are always stocked with what customers want, while ruthlessly minimizing wastage and maximizing every square centimetre of our dark store floor space.

What You'll Do

• Demand Forecasting: Build and deploy high-precision forecasting models to predict hyper-local demand at the SKU-store level.
• Inventory & Availability: Develop replenishment algorithms that balance In-Stock Availability with the risk of expiry, specifically for high-turnover perishables.
• Wastage Mitigation: Use ML to identify items at risk of expiring and trigger automated interventions including reduced-to-clear discounting, intra-store replenishment etc.
• Dynamic Pricing & Discounts: Design and A/B test pricing strategies that move inventory efficiently without eroding margins.
• Space Management: Optimize dark store space determining which items should be stored where within the dark store to minimize picker travel time and maximize storage density.
• End-to-End Ownership: Work closely with Product Managers and Supply Chain Operations to turn your models into production-level code that dictates real-world logistics.

What You'll Need

• Academic Background & Experience: 8+ years of experience in Data Science, ideally in E-commerce, Q-commerce, or Supply Chain. A background in Operations Research or Statistics. Hands-on proficiency in Python, Spark and ML frameworks. Experience with real-time inference systems and model monitoring in production. Strong understanding of experimentation, A/B testing, and causal inference. Demonstrated ability to drive architectural decisions across teams.
• Technical Skills: Professional-grade Python and SQL. Experience with optimization libraries (like Gurobi, CPLEX, or PuLP) and ML frameworks (XGBoost, LightGBM, or PyTorch).
• Problem Solving: Experience with Stochastic Optimization or Reinforcement Learning for inventory management is highly preferred.
• Business Intuition: You understand that a 1% reduction in wastage across 100+ stores translates to millions in saved EBITDA.
• Communication Skills: Excellent communication skills and ability to translate complex modelling trade-offs into business impact.

What We’ll Provide You

We offer colleagues the opportunity to drive impact in the region while they learn and grow. As a full time Careem colleague, you will be able to:

• Work and learn from great minds by joining a community of inspiring colleagues.
• Put your passion to work in a purposeful organisation dedicated to creating impact in a region with a lot of untapped potential.
• Explore new opportunities to learn and grow every day.
• Work 4 days a week in office & 1 day from home, and remotely from any country in the world for 30 days a year with unlimited vacation days per year. (If you are in an individual contributor role in tech, you will have 2 office days a week and 3 to work from home.)
• Access to healthcare benefits and fitness reimbursements for health activities including gym, health club, and training classes.