# Founding Product Engineer — Venture Platform & Infrastructure

About The Studio Utopia Studio is an AI-native venture builder for the Global South, backed by Qatar Development Bank. We work with domain experts across the GCC, Southeast Asia, and Africa to accelerate venture creation through AI-driven execution and shared infrastructure. At the core is Utopia OS - a modular platform that automates what's repeatable, embeds AI agents across workflows, and lets learning compound across ventures. About the Role We're looking for a founding product engineer to build the platform and infrastructure side of Utopia OS. You’ll design, develop, and scale the shared systems, data pipelines, and full-stack applications that power dozens of AI-native ventures launching from Doha for the Global South. You’ll combine deep backend expertise with the ability to deliver seamless, data-driven web experiences that make AI-native venture building faster and smarter. You will work as part of a product trio with the Design Lead and the Rapid Prototyping Engineer, making joint decisions on discovery, scope, and technical approach. Reports to: Studio Director Growth path: Head of AI Platform / CTO track Responsibilities Platform Engineering & Infrastructure Architect,

- **Id**: 838621
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/utopia-studio-founding-product-engineer-venture-platform-infrastructure>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Doha, Qatar
- **Countries**: QA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2025-11-12T17:18:08Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2025-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T04:23:23Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 361
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 9622
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Continuous learning, Wellness
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Angel Networks & Startup Accelerators

## Company

- **Id**: 692206
- **Name**: The Utopia Studio
- **Domain**: utopia-studio.co
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/utopia-studio>
- **Size band**: 11-50
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 75
- **Open postings**: 3
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 80000
- **Max**: 120000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 120000

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Angular** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Dagster** — Optional: no
- **Delta Lake** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **LLMOps** — Optional: no
- **Next.js** — Optional: no
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **React.js** — Optional: no
- **Supabase** — Optional: no
- **Svelte** — Optional: no
- **SvelteKit** — Optional: no
- **Vue.js** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes
- **TypeScript** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 361

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Qatar** — Iso: QA; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-12T20:26:34Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 7
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.236
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 361
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 120000
- **Is top pay**: no

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