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Senior Technology Lead

At Horizontal Digital, we hold ourselves to one key belief: You’re only as good as your worst customer experience. This mantra drives our digital consultancy to think beyond the easy answers and instead create websites, apps, portals and other experiences that solve customer needs for Fortune 500 companies in intuitive and empathetic ways. We fuse strategy, data, design and technology together to arrive at solutions that set the bar higher for everyone.

We use these values to fuel superior results:

Lock arms We forge relationships that make our impact 1,000x stronger. This means working across departments and engaging both our clients and our communities to deliver the greatest good.

Show hustle We’re not ones to sit on our hands and wait. Instead, we anticipate opportunities, collectively roll up our sleeves and find ways to execute the exceptional.

Embrace change From new technologies to workplace philosophies, we welcome the unexpected and constantly anticipate what’s next.

Elevate empathy We listen before we take action. This means understanding a variety of perspectives and holding ourselves to a higher standard of accountability.

Never settle We motivate each other to push past the easy answers and collectively arrive at bigger, more inspiring ideas.

But enough about us. Let’s talk about you.

As a Technology Lead at Horizontal Digital, you will manage, develop, and implement technology solutions for clients. The Technology Lead is a critical role for the team and will own the full technology stack that supports our digital solutions.

We’re looking for a digital technology expert who is comfortable leading as a player/coach. In this role you will manage developer resources and work side-by-side with project teams as an active participant defining requirements, shaping technical solutions, and taking a hands-on approach to implementation and quality assurance. You will work across multiple projects with a diverse team consisting of a mix of front and backend developers, digital strategists, project managers, and the UX/creative team. Your goal is to manage a team to produce great work, expand our technical capabilities, and help clients meet digital objectives.

Seeking Full-Stack Tech Lead in Belgium/UAE for Giftify, a Gift Card FinTech. Must have 8+ years' development experience and strong PHP, Laravel, React skills. Excellent mentorship and communication required.

For this role we exclusively accept applicants located in Belgium or UAE.

Giftify is a FinTech/MarTech scale-up leader in turn-key Gift Card solutions for Shopping Centres and retailers across Europe. Our goal is to become the world leader in our industry. Through our Gift Card products, our passion is to bring efficient and innovative solutions to allow Shopping Centres and Retail Parks to raise and revolutionize their marketing strategy 'one gift card at a time'.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it:

We are seeking a passionate Full-Stack Tech Lead to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in translating complex problems into simple and reliable code. As a Tech Lead, you will be responsible for mentoring a small squad and reporting, as well as analyzing and implementing new features within our application from both frontend and backend perspectives. This includes areas such as payment processing, API endpoints, tokenization, virtual cards, administration tools, graphics, and reports.

Responsibilities:

1. Develop and implement new features across frontend and backend systems.
2. Mentoring the team to ensure high-quality code and efficient performance.
3. Contribute to the continuous improvement of development processes and best practices.
4. Assist in bug fixing and troubleshooting to maintain system reliability.
5. Share knowledge and mentor colleagues to enhance team capabilities.

Mandatory Hard Skills:

Strong PHP, Laravel, and React skills are required.

Soft Skills:

1. Excellent written communication skills.
2. Ability to drive and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
3. Strong mentoring skills and the ability to guide junior developers.
4. Proficient written and oral English communication (level B2 or above).
5. Strong team player comfortable with pair programming.
6. Ownership and accountability for work delivered.
7. Ability to share knowledge and expertise with the team.

Even if you're not a Superhero:

Don't meet every requirement? Don't hesitate to apply! We value diverse experiences and perspectives, and we're committed to adding new talent to our team.

Recruitment process:

1. Stage 1: Initial meeting with our recruiter to assess suitability.
2. Stage 2: Technical exercise to demonstrate skills.
3. Stage 3: Presentation of solution to Technical Director for further discussion and alignment.

Join us in revolutionizing the Gift Card industry and shaping the future of marketing strategies. Apply now and be part of our exciting journey!

Join as a Full-Stack Tech Lead to innovate Gift Card solutions. Requires coding skills, mentoring, PHP, Laravel, and React. Apply now if in Belgium/UAE.

Full-Stack Tech Lead: Join our dynamic team to develop innovative Gift Card solutions. Requires strong coding experience, mentoring skills, and proficiency in PHP, Laravel, and React.

Location
For this role, we exclusively accept applicants located in Belgium or UAE. Giftify is a FinTech/MarTech scale-up leader in turn-key Gift Card solutions for Shopping Centres and retailers across Europe. Our goal is to become the world leader in our industry. Through our Gift Card products, our passion is to bring efficient and innovative solutions to allow Shopping Centres and Retail Parks to raise and revolutionize their marketing strategy 'one gift card at a time'.

We are seeking a passionate Full-Stack Tech Lead to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in translating complex problems into simple and reliable code. As a Tech Lead, you will be responsible for mentoring a small squad and reporting, as well as analyzing and implementing new features within our application from both frontend and backend perspectives. This includes areas such as payment processing, API endpoints, tokenization, virtual cards, administration tools, graphics, and reports.

1. Develop and implement new features across frontend and backend systems.
2. Mentor the team to ensure high-quality code and efficient performance.
3. Contribute to the continuous improvement of development processes and best practices.
4. Assist in bug fixing and troubleshooting to maintain system reliability.
5. Share knowledge and mentor colleagues to enhance team capabilities.

Proficiency in PHP, Laravel, and React.

1. Excellent written communication skills.
2. Ability to drive and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
3. Strong mentoring skills and the ability to guide junior developers.
4. Proficient written and oral English communication (level B2 or above).
5. Strong team player comfortable with pair programming.
6. Ownership and accountability for work delivered.
7. Ability to share knowledge and expertise with the team.

Don't meet every requirement? Don't hesitate to apply! We value diverse experiences and perspectives, and we're committed to adding new talent to our team.

1. Stage 1: Initial meeting with our recruiter to assess suitability.
2. Stage 2: Technical exercise to demonstrate skills.
3. Stage 3: Presentation of solution to Technical Director for further discussion and alignment.

Join us in revolutionizing the Gift Card industry and shaping the future of marketing strategies. Apply now and be part of our exciting journey!

FlatGigs is hiring on behalf of our client — a UAE-based technology company building scalable digital and logistics platforms for modern enterprises. Their mission is to create high-performance, secure systems designed for long-term growth and operational excellence.

We’re looking for a Senior Full-Stack Engineer (Tech Lead) to design, build, and guide the development of a full-stack logistics platform using Django and React. You’ll lead backend architecture, develop responsive dashboards, and mentor the engineering team.

• Lead full-stack design and development using Django REST Framework and React.js
• Architect scalable backend and frontend systems with robust APIs and data workflows
• Build responsive dashboards with real-time data visualizations
• Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to translate business needs into code
• Maintain CI/CD pipelines and enforce code quality standards
• Explore and adopt new technologies to improve performance and scalability

• 5+ years of full-stack development experience
• Proficiency in Python (Django REST Framework) , React , and PostgreSQL
• Strong knowledge of API design, cloud architecture, and CI/CD
• Excellent problem-solving, leadership, and communication skills

GenAI LLM NLP Startup Transformers GetThingsDone AI

Brief description of the vacancy

Anecdote is building the AI Hub—a unified platform that powers domain-specific AI agents, serving as a real-time copilot that listens to live calls or chats, reads our customers’ knowledge base, and drafts perfect replies for human agents.

As the Tech Lead , you will own the technical vision and turn technical requirements into a live product. Collaborate directly with engineers, engineering directors, CTO, and other tech leads to transform ambitious prototypes into a reliable product used by brands like Grubhub, Booking, Dropbox & Uber.

About the company

Company: Anecdote / anecdoteai.com

Anecdote is an innovative, AI-first startup revolutionizing how companies analyze customer feedback. Our AI-powered platform consolidates feedback from app reviews, support chats, surveys, and social media into a single, accessible space. This enables companies like Grubhub, Dropbox, and Careem to derive actionable insights and improve customer experience in real time, fostering sustainable growth.

We are backed by top investors, including Neo, Sukna, Race Capital, Propeller, and Wamda, with $3.5M raised to date.

Responsibilities

What you’ll do

• 50% : Build critical components—write Python, design APIs, fine-tune LLMs, create evaluation harnesses, and deploy to production.
• 25% : Architect and scale GPU clusters on GCP (Vertex AI / GKE / Cloud Run), monitor costs, latency, reliability, and own the on-call duties.
• 15% : Collaborate with backend and front-end engineers to integrate RAG pipelines into ticketing, voice, and analytics systems.
• 10% : Gather requirements from CX leads, demo new features to executives and customers, and document impact.

Requirements

What makes you a great fit:

• 7-10 years building production ML/backend systems, including 2+ years leading while coding.
• Expertise in Python; solid experience with FastAPI, gRPC, Postgres, pub/sub.
• Knowledge in ML and Data Science.
• Proven experience deploying and tuning open-source LLMs (DeepSeek, Llama) on GPUs.
• Fluency with at least one agent framework (preferably ADK) and RAG pipelines.
• Ability to translate business problems into shipped ML products and communicate results clearly.
• Bonus: DevOps skills, multimodal pipelines, relevant prior experience.

Working conditions

• Remote-first environment with flexible hours.
• Regular off-sites and monthly virtual game nights.
• Startup equity in a rapidly growing market.

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As a Staff Engineer in Distributed Systems, you will be a hands-on expert driving the architecture, performance, and operational excellence of our core systems. You will apply your deep technical expertise to solve the hardest, most complex distributed systems problems, ensuring our infrastructure is highly performant, reliable, and scalable. A systems-level programmer at heart, you are motivated by debugging and optimizing complex solutions to deliver simple, high-impact results. You will have extensive exposure and hands-on experience with major cloud platforms and modern technologies.

• Systems Design and Architecture: Design and implement the architecture for complex, large-scale distributed systems. You will focus on fundamental principles like scalability, high availability, and fault tolerance, and ensure simple, straightforward solutions to complex problems.

• Distributed Systems Debugging: Utilize your extensive experience to debug and resolve the most intricate and obscure issues in distributed systems across multiple nodes and network environments. You will lead complex debug efforts for customer-facing issues and drive root-cause analysis.

• Performance Engineering and Optimization: Identify and eliminate system bottlenecks by deeply profiling, optimizing, and tuning core components for maximum performance. Your expertise will directly influence critical system metrics like latency and throughput.

• Hands-On Development: Write and review high-quality, performant, and reliable software using low-level systems languages such as Go, C++, or Rust. Your code contributions will directly impact critical, high-volume production systems. Experience in Python is a plus.

• Cloud Platform Expertise: Design, develop, and operate systems deployed on modern cloud environments, with explicit, hands-on experience on platforms like AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure. You will leverage the ecosystem and best practices of these platforms to deliver resilient solutions.

• Operational Excellence: Embed a culture of operational rigor within the team by participating in on-call rotations, managing incident response, and conducting blameless post-mortems. You will build and expand monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to enhance system observability.

• Mentorship and Technical Leadership: Serve as a technical leader and mentor to other engineers, raising the overall skill level of the organization. You will contribute to the evolution of our engineering standards and processes.

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in software development, with a multi-year, hands-on focus on large-scale distributed systems.

• Deep experience with distributed systems design, including failure modes and performance optimization.

• Expert-level knowledge of at least one low-level systems language (e.g., Golang , C++, or Rust).

• Proven experience debugging complex, multi-service, and network-related issues in a distributed production environment.

• Strong hands-on experience designing, developing, and operating services on cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.

• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Deep expertise in a major technical area of distributed systems (e.g., consensus algorithms, distributed databases, large-scale data processing).

• Familiarity with cloud-native technologies, microservices architecture, and DevOps practices.

• Proven track record of defining and driving engineering initiatives that involve cross-team collaboration.

Engineering Manager role to lead a Python/Kubernetes team, innovate IS and ops technology, driving Canonical's transition to a new open-source codebase; requires tech leadership and devops expertise.

Description

This is an Engineering Manager role, focused on a new generation of ops technology, to run a team that works in Python on Kubernetes.

Our mission is to reinvent the way people run software - on public clouds and in their own data centres. To achieve that we are building a new community around Python opscode for open source applications, running on Kubernetes. We want to move all of Canonical and Ubuntu IS onto this new, open source codebase.

This is a cutting-edge opportunity for a technical leader passionate about building a world-class devops culture in corporate information systems. We are confident that we can dramatically improve the experience of running complex business operations - and then we can help our customers embrace those new techniques and products.

Traditionally, IS is an inward-facing operation. We would like to transform our IS team into an extension of the product engineering capability at Canonical. Our internal workloads are in many cases the same open source workloads that our customers want to operate. This team will productise those workloads for real-time automated operations on Kubernetes.

As an engineering manager you'll lead a team in your local time zone, focused on the business workloads that make Ubuntu, Canonical, and our various services highly available around the planet. You will be responsible for sound software architecture and best practices in software quality, testing and documentation.

What you'll do

1. Lead a team focused on productising business workloads
2. Build and manage a regional team of engineers
3. Develop your team through coaching, mentoring, and feedback
4. Demonstrate sound engineering by directly contributing toward your team's goals
5. Set reasonable schedules based on considered estimates, with feedback loops for improvement
6. Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams and external stakeholders
7. Advance modern, agile software development practices
8. Maintain a culture of quality and engineering excellence
9. Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values
10. Be an active part of the leadership team and collaborate with other leaders in the organisation
11. Work from home with global travel up to 20% for internal and external events

Who you are

1. Experience in Docker and Kubernetes operations
2. A software engineering background, with proven Python experience
3. Experience developing Python frameworks, and understand the importance of stable consumable APIs
4. Love embracing new technologies and pushing the boundaries of what is possible
5. Interest in building products that improve how people operate software and infrastructure everywhere
6. Passionate about developing and growing people with a track record of doing it
7. Knowledgeable and passionate about software development
8. Experience working in an agile development environment

About Canonical

Canonical is a growing international software company that works with the open-source community to deliver Ubuntu, the world's best free software platform. Our services help businesses worldwide reduce costs, improve efficiency and enhance security with Ubuntu.

We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity we will give your application fair consideration.

Engineering Manager - Public Cloud, Python, Golang

Dubai, AE

Senior

Salary Range: To be discussed

Canonical seeks an engineering manager to lead, mentor, and ensure Ubuntu image delivery and optimization with cloud partners, focused on quality and team performance.

Canonical Ubuntu is the most widely used OS for public cloud instances across every major public cloud. Our team builds, tests, and publishes the base Ubuntu images used by millions to ensure optimal performance and security in their cloud estate. We aim to deliver the very best public cloud VM experience, as well as specialized images for specific purposes on each cloud.

We work closely with Amazon, Microsoft, Google and other world-class cloud partners to optimize Ubuntu for their infrastructure. Our goal is to celebrate and enable their particular points of differentiation on their clouds, while also ensuring a common operating experience for their users.

As an engineering manager , you need to bring both technical and management skills to the leadership of your team. You will also need to represent the team in direct partner engagement. You'll be responsible for the stability and functionality that our cloud users have come to expect. You will strive to automate the delivery of existing and new Ubuntu image products applied to all modern workloads from web servers to GPU-aided AI for servers, VMs, and containers.

As an engineering manager at Canonical, your primary responsibility is to the people you support: ensuring that they are growing as engineers, doing valuable work, and generally having a great time at Canonical. As a lead for strong engineers, technical leadership and a solid background in software development is a must, so that you're able to challenge and grow your team members. You will have the opportunity to influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your team on strategy and execution.

We work in Python and Golang , and expect engineering managers to be fluent in the language, architecture, and components that their team is building with. Code reviews and architectural leadership are part of the job. As a manager, the commitment to healthy engineering practices, documentation, quality, and performance optimization are equally important technical responsibilities, as is the requirement for fair and clear management, and the obligation to ensure a high performing team.

1. Build and lead a team of engineers in your and similar timezones
2. Develop talent through coaching, mentoring, feedback, and hands-on career development
3. Demonstrate sound engineering principles and directly contribute toward your team's goals
4. Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, management, and external stakeholders
5. Lead modern, agile software development practices
6. Ensure a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values
7. Be an active part of the leadership team and collaborate with other leaders in the organisation
8. Build automated, highly reliable image delivery, testing, and publication pipelines
9. Engage with many other teams at Canonical, as well as the open source community and commercial partners
10. Work from home with global travel up to 15% for internal and external events

1. You love to mentor, develop, and grow people, and have a track record of doing it
2. You are knowledgeable and passionate about software development
3. You are focused on success and the delivery of timely, high-quality software
4. You have experience and commitment to agile development methodologies
5. You have a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
6. Software development experience in Python or Golang
7. Effective written and verbal communication skills
8. Practical experience with at least one of Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, or AWS

1. Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
2. Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
3. Annual compensation review
4. Recognition rewards
5. Annual holiday leave
6. Maternity and paternity leave
7. Employee Assistance Programme
8. Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
9. Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud, we are changing the world on a daily basis. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence - in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do. Canonical has been a remote-first company since its inception in 2004. Working here is a step into the future, and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.

Canonical is an equal opportunity employer. We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.

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