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We're a lean, fast-moving company building a payments/e-commerce product with an external development partner. We're now hiring our first internal technical leader — someone to sit on our side of the table, own the technical direction, and hold our vendor to a high bar on quality, timelines, and process.
This is a hands-on leadership role. There's no in-house engineering team (yet), so you'll need to be comfortable getting into the code yourself while thinking strategically about where the platform goes next.
What you'll do
- Act as our primary technical liaison with the external development team — reviewing their work, enforcing code and documentation standards, and holding them accountable on delivery
- Own the technical roadmap and define the direction of our stack
- Audit and inspect code directly — not just manage from a distance
- Ensure security standards are in place and maintained, and support regulatory and compliance requirements
- Reduce our dependence on any single vendor over time
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What we're looking for
- Strong security background, ideally in payments or e-commerce
- Experience managing external or agency development teams — and holding them to account
- Familiarity with regulatory or compliance environments — data protection, payment processor standards, or similar
- Hands-on with our stack: TypeScript, Node, Express and PostgreSQL on the backend; React with Zustand on the frontend; AWS with CloudFront and Cloudflare
- Comfortable operating in a lean setup: strategic enough to plan ahead, hands-on enough to spot problems early
- Based in the UK or UAE
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