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Founding Software Engineer
Sora Wealth
Dubai, UAE
Full Time
Senior
1 months ago
RustPostgresTypeScriptReactReact NativeAI models
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About the Role
Sora Wealth is looking for a Founding Software Engineer to own major parts of their AI-native private wealth platform. The role involves building client-facing and advisor-facing experiences, AI agents, and working directly with the CTO and CPO.
Key Skills for This Role
RustPostgresTypeScriptReactReact NativeAI models
Responsibilities
- Use skills and AI to accelerate the whole software development lifecycle (design, develop, test, deploy, operate and maintain).
- Build client facing experiences including onboarding and KYC flows, portfolio dashboards, and advice delivery.
- Develop advisor facing tooling that helps wealth managers handle clients, portfolios, and proposals efficiently.
- Create the AI agents and workflows behind Sora's planning and advice engine.
- Collaborate with engineers, designers, product managers, data scientists, and wealth advisors to turn discovery insights into shipped product.
- Participate in the team's on call rotation as the platform matures.
- Contribute across the company to engineering practices, product direction, hiring, mentoring, processes, and strategy.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional experience as a software engineer
- Proven experience designing, creating and being responsible for systems
- Strong fundamentals plus a deep understanding of how the systems you build on actually operate
- Capable of executing the full software development lifecycle
- A preference for simplicity over complexity in system design and code
- Strong judgment about where to spend your time, balancing quality with shipping
- Accountable and self driven, with deep care for your work and customers
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Regular use of AI in your workflow, reaching for AI tools before manually executing tasks
- Eagerness to keep learning as AI changes what is possible
- A genuine desire to understand the business and shape the product at an early stage startup
- Proficiency in English
Full Job Posting
Who We Are
- Over $1T in wealth will transfer to a new generation across the GCC by 2030, just as AI reaches the point where it can deliver expert financial advice at near zero marginal cost.
- Private banks are raising minimums and off boarding clients, leaving a fast growing affluent and LHNW segment without comparable service.
- Sora is an AI native private wealth firm for the modern era, delivering a far more personal and proactive service.
- Our founding team helped build one of MENA’s leading fintechs, after careers at HSBC, Rothschild & Co, Citibank, and Cloudflare.
The Role
- We are looking for a Founding Software Engineer to own major parts of Sora's platform end to end, working directly with the CTO and CPO.
- You will shape how the product works and feels for both clients and advisors.
- Thriving means shipping simple, reliable systems and creating a product that clients and advisors trust and love to use.
What You’ll Do
- Use your skills and AI to accelerate the whole software development lifecycle.
- Build client facing experiences including onboarding and KYC flows, portfolio dashboards, and advice delivery.
- Develop advisor facing tooling that helps wealth managers handle clients, portfolios, and proposals efficiently.
- Create the AI agents and workflows behind Sora's planning and advice engine.
- Collaborate with engineers, designers, product managers, data scientists, and wealth advisors.
- Participate in the team's on call rotation.
- Contribute across the company to engineering practices, product direction, hiring, mentoring, processes, and strategy.
Our Tech Stack
- Rust
- Postgres
- Typescript, React and React Native
- Open and closed source AI models
- Langchain
- AWS and Cloudflare
- Grafana Cloud
- Sentry
What You’ll Bring – Critical Requirements
- 5+ years of professional experience as a software engineer.
- Proven experience designing, creating and being responsible for systems.
- Strong fundamentals plus deep understanding of how systems operate.
- Capable of executing the full software development lifecycle.
- Preference for simplicity over complexity.
- Strong judgment about where to spend time.
- Accountable and self driven.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Regular use of AI in workflow.
- Eagerness to keep learning.
- Genuine desire to understand the business and shape the product.
- Proficiency in English.
Nice to Have
- Experience with Rust programming language and ecosystem.
- Experience with web development (HTML, CSS, JS, React) and mobile development (React Native).
- Experience building on AWS.
- Experience developing AI agents and workflows.
- Experience in fintech, banking, or wealth management.
What You’ll Get
- Early stage equity: Meaningful ownership, reserved for the founding team.
- Founding team member: Working directly with founders in a lean team under high performance culture.
- Competitive compensation.
- Either remote or UAE based (with visa sponsorship).
- Paid access to frontier AI tools.
- 25 days annual leave plus local public holidays.
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