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Job Title: Head of Engineering (Founding Team) Compensation: Equity-Only (Founders’ Pool: 2 – 4 %, vesting 4 yrs / 1-yr cliff) Location: Dubai HQ (hybrid) or remote within ±4 hrs GMT+4 Reports to: CTO / Cofounder Why Clyra — and Why Now Clyra turns students’ PDFs, slide decks, videos, and audio lectures into adaptive flashcards, mock exams, and personalized study plans powered by LLM agents. We’ve shipped an MVP, onboarded our first 1000+ users, and see strong retention. We are looking for a technical leader who can scale the platform from prototype to a global, AI-first learning OS. If you want high ownership and meaningful equity instead of cash, read on. What You’ll Own & First-90-Day Wins Technical Vision & Architecture (40 %) Design the backend, data, and DevOps blueprint for content ingestion, vector search, LLM orchestration, and a real-time quiz engine. 90-day markers: event-driven micro-services diagram complete · IaC repo bootstrapped · quiz latency ≤ 250 ms Team Building & Mentorship (25 %) Recruit, onboard, and coach 3 – 5 full-stack / ML engineers; establish a high-velocity culture. 90-day markers: first 2 senior hires closed · weekly velocity ≥ 15 story points AI / ML Pipeline (15 %) Productionize prompt chains, RAG pipelines, embeddings store (PGVector / Elastic), and adaptive scoring algorithms. Security & Compliance (10 %) Lead SOC 2, GDPR, DIFC ROPA,CCPA, ready practices, data-privacy design, and multi-region GCP hosting. Founder-Level Strategic Input (10 %) Shape product roadmap, fundraising decks, and investor tech deep-dives. You’ll Thrive Here If You… Have built and scaled consumer SaaS or EdTech backends to 100 K+ MAU. Are fluent in TypeScript / Next.js , Python, and cloud (GCP or AWS). Know your way around LLM tooling (OpenAI / Anthropic APIs, LangChain or LlamaIndex, vector DBs, finetuning, cost optimisation). Are comfortable with equity-only comp for ~6–12 months until the seed round closes. Enjoy both coding and setting architectural guardrails; you still merge PRs. Communicate crisply with product, growth What Success Looks Like in 12 Months The platform supports 500 K registered users at 99.9 % uptime with sub-second responses. Fully automated CI/CD, SLO dashboards, and humane on-call rotation in place. Compute + token spend < 8 % of revenue. Engineering culture docs, onboarding playbooks, and a high-trust team solidified. Equity & Founder-Level Perks 2 – 4 % equity , performance-based top-ups possible at Series A. Autonomy over tooling, frameworks, and hiring. Visa sponsorship & relocation stipend to Dubai (optional). Annual learning budget unlocked post-seed. How to Apply Email careers@getclyra.com with subject “Founding Engineer – [Your Name]” and include: GitHub / LinkedIn or résumé. One product you architected end-to-end (bullets). A ≤ 3-min Loom explaining how you’d cut Clyra’s GPT token cost per user by 30 %. OR Latency & Scale Drill: Draft a 1-page architecture brief (max 400 words) showing how you would keep our real-time quiz response p95 latency ≤ 300 ms while supporting 100 K concurrent users . Highlight : key tech choices (e.g., event queue, caching layers, edge functions) autoscaling strategy & cost envelope the one metric dashboard you’d watch to catch regressions early Show more Show less
