Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Leadership Opportunity: Architect a privacy-centric mobile platform transforming psychological insights into gold-standard digital support solutions.
The position will begin remotely and will transition to an on-site role in Dubai. Relocation support will be provided as part of the process.
The ideal candidate will possess:
- Experience and deep interest in psychology, human behavior and it’s application within NLP, machine learning and algorithmic matchmaking
- Proven ability to deliver production-grade mobile applications
- Commitment to building fully sovereign technology infrastructure
- Wants their technical legacy to outlast their career
As Founding CTO, you will establish our technical vision while ensuring compliance with global healthcare regulations (HIPAA/GDPR/UAE).
Core Responsibilities
1. Technical Leadership
Design and implement a secure, cross-platform mobile architecture (Flutter/React Native) featuring:
- On-device NLP processing for linguistic and cognitive pattern recognition
- End-to-end encrypted synchronization with self-hosted backend systems
- Biometric authentication and local data encryption
2. AI/ML Development
Develop and fine-tune psychology-specific models (PyTorch/HuggingFace) for:
- Non-diagnostic cognitive state assessment (parameters provided by psychological and medical team)
- Personalized therapeutic recommendation and calendar integration
- Implement continuous learning systems with bias mitigation protocols
3. Infrastructure Strategy
Architect and maintain self-hosted infrastructure utilizing:
- Bare metal/OpenStack deployment
- Kubernetes orchestration
- Zero-trust networking (WireGuard)
4. Team Development
Recruit and lead a technical team
Establish engineering best practices with emphasis on:
- Privacy-by-design principles
- Healthcare compliance standards
- Agile development methodologies
Required Qualifications
Technical Expertise
Experience delivering production systems including:
- Mobile applications with AI components (Flutter/React Native)
- NLP pipelines for psychological/linguistic analysis
- Self-hosted infrastructure (OpenStack, Kubernetes, MinIO)
Leadership Competencies
Demonstrated ability to:
- Translate psychological and language requirements into technical specifications
- Make strategic build-vs-buy decisions
- Mentor engineering teams in regulated environments
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with wearable device integration (Whoop, Oura, Apple Health) and API integration
- Background in behavioral nudging systems
- Contributions to open-source privacy technologies
- Familiarity with FHIR/HL7 standards
Compensation and Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Significant equity participation
- Relocation assistance to Dubai, UAE
- Dedicated infrastructure budget
We Need Someone Who
- Sees technology as a force for human elevation
- Gets excited about hard problems with moral dimensions (views this as fun)
- Wants their technical legacy to outlast their career
- Technical challenges worthy of your lifetime’s experience
- Historic opportunity to prove tech can heal, not just harvest
- Understands how data trends can be used to positively shape and impact public policies
You get to
- Engineer the first patient-owned AI system that turns personal data into life-changing insights
- Prove that privacy-first technology can be highly profitable
- Establish new gold standards for ethical AI in behavioral health
This will be your lasting impact as the systems you create will:
- Transform how societies approach mental health at scale
- Shift industry norms toward ethical data stewardship
- Empower generations with tools for self-understanding
We are committed to establishing new standards for privacy and efficacy in digital mental health interventions that will impact millions of lives.
