Chief Technology Officer CTO Transactional Systems Dubai Based

We are publishing on behalf of the Client the following position:

Key Responsibilities

• Design and launch transaction infrastructure (payments, bookings, statuses)
• Build event-driven architecture
• Implement idempotent operations (no double charges, no inconsistent states)
• Integrate payment providers (webhooks, retries, reconciliation)
• Build full auditability and traceability of all operations
• Control security: access rights, roles, secrets
• Organise production support: SLA, incidents, post-mortems
• Architectural governance of the development team (ownership of outcomes, not coding personally)
  
  

Experience

Transactions & Money:

Proven Real-world Experience With

– payments

– webhooks

– idempotency

– reconciliation of payments, statuses, and balances

Clear understanding that a successful HTTP response does not equal a successful operation

Architecture

Design and maintenance of:

– state machines

– event-driven processes

Ability To Clearly Explain

– system states

– recovery after failures

– handling of repeated or delayed events

Security & Control

Hands-on implementation of:

– RBAC (roles & permissions)

– Audit Logs (who, When, What Changed)

– secrets management

• Experience handling legally sensitive data
  
  

Production & Accountability

• Experience running production systems where:
  
  

– SLAs exist

– incidents happen

– post-mortems are mandatory

• Clear ownership mindset: system failure is a responsibility, not an excuse
  
  

Strong Advantages

• FinTech, escrow, booking, wallet systems
• Regulated or quasi-banking environments
• Scaling transactional systems
• Participation in incidents involving real financial loss
  
  

PROFILES LESS CONSIDERED

• Experience limited to marketplaces, landing pages, CRM, admin panels
• Primary focus on UI/UX with backend as secondary
• No experience with real money or production incidents
• Responsibility limited to code, not outcomes
  
  

Work Format

• High level of autonomy and responsibility
• Direct impact on core product architecture
• Environment where quality matters more than speed
• Project requires 100% involvement and full professional commitment
  
  

Language Requirements

• English – fluent
• Other languages are a strong asset
  
  

Recruitment Process

This role is published on behalf of a client. Kindly submit your CV in English.

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