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We connect hotels, holiday homes, channel managers, PMSs, payment providers and other travel systems through intelligent inventory, pricing, search and distribution infrastructure. We operate globally, with hubs in Dubai and Riyadh. Our AI layer powers dynamic pricing, agentic lead generation, smart inventory orchestration and autonomous operations for operators, corporate bookers and digital nomads alike.\n\nLocation: Remote-first (MENA time zone alignment required: at least 8 hours per day overlapping with Gulf Standard Time, UTC+4)\n\nReports to: Nimit Solanki, CTO & Co-founder\n\nLeads: Forward Deployed Engineers (Integrations)\n\nType: Full-time\n\nShape of the role: roughly 50% people and delivery leadership, 50% hands-on engineering\n\nTHE ROLE\n\nYou will build and lead our Forward Deployed Engineering team: the engineers who connect estaie to the hospitality ecosystem and make those integrations work in production. 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Strong, current hands-on skills in TypeScript (Node.js / NestJS, React / Next.js), SQL and PostgreSQL, plus working Python.\n\nA track record of building and running third-party integrations in production: webhooks with signature checks, idempotency, retries, rate limits, and data sync or reconciliation.\n\nSolid grounding in distributed systems: transactions and concurrency, queues and event-driven design, out-of-order events, and fault tolerance.\n\nProduction experience with LLMs, including how to evaluate them, constrain them and keep their costs in check.\n\nCloud deployment experience with Docker and CI/CD, ideally on GCP.\n\nExperience leading a remote, distributed team with an async, written culture.\n\nProfessional-level English: you can run a technical call with an external engineering team and turn it into a plan, and write clear documentation, PR reviews and post-mortems.\n\nBias for action. You debug, document, automate and measure, and you care about products that work, not just systems that run.\n\nNICE TO HAVE\n\nHospitality, hotels, holiday homes, travel-tech, fintech, marketplace or other integration-heavy background is an absolute plus and will be weighted heavily.\n\nHands-on experience with channel managers, PMSs, OTAs, reservation systems or payment gateways.\n\nExperience building or leading a forward deployed, solutions or integrations engineering team.\n\nKafka / Redpanda, OpenSearch / Elasticsearch, pgvector, Terraform.\n\nExperience in the GCC markets, and Arabic language skills.\n\nYOUR FIRST 90 DAYS\n\nFirst 30 days: learn the platform and our live integrations, ship your first production change, and meet our key partners.\n\nBy 60 days: own at least one integration end to end, and agree the shared integration standards (auth, webhooks, idempotency, testing) with the team.\n\nBy 90 days: have the FDE hiring plan running, a delivery rhythm the team and partners trust, and clear reliability metrics for the integration layer.\n\nWHY JOIN ESTAIE\n\nBuild and shape a new team from the start, at the frontier of AI-native hospitality.\n\nWork directly with a founding team from Careem, Grab and Deutsche Telekom who value clarity, velocity and ownership.\n\nReal-world complexity: partners and systems across the global hospitality ecosystem, with your work reaching production fast.\n\nFlat, product-driven culture with strong engineering autonomy and end-to-end ownership.\n\nCompetitive compensation and founding-team ESOP potential.\n\nRemote-first, or hybrid from our hubs in Dubai and Riyadh.\n\nCOMPENSATION NOTE\n\nThe total compensation for this role is capped at a maximum of USD 2,000 per month (gross, all-inclusive). 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