Chief Technology Officer — Veebase (Full-time, Cairo, Egypt)
About Veebase
Veebase builds sovereign, Arabic-native AI systems for government, national security, healthcare, legal, and enterprise — products like VeeBot (Arabic-native conversational AI), VeeSign (digital signatures), VeeArchive, VeeEye (video intelligence), and VeeCore. We scale through partners and franchisees across Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Kuwait, with hubs in Houston, Riyadh, and Cairo. Our systems run on-premises and air-gapped where our customers require it, in Arabic first.
The role
We are looking for a Chief Technology Officer to own Veebase's technical direction and lead our engineering work from Cairo, Egypt. You will lead the team building the products behind our government and enterprise deployments across the region, and work directly with the founder on product and partnership decisions.
You will:
Own the technical vision and architecture across our product portfolio (conversational AI, document intelligence, video analytics, e-signatures, knowledge systems).
Lead and grow our engineering team in Cairo and remotely — set the bar on code quality, testing, security, and delivery.
Make the build-vs-buy and architecture calls: LLM strategy, on-prem deployment, Arabic NLP, data and model governance.
Be the technical face of Veebase with government and enterprise customers: join key meetings, defend the architecture, and turn customer requirements into buildable plans.
Put engineering discipline in place: CI/CD, code review, documentation, and release practices that survive audits.
Work directly with the founder on product and partnership decisions — your judgment shapes what we build next.
What we're looking for
Must-haves:
10+ years building software, with at least 3 years leading engineers (team lead, head of engineering, CTO, or equivalent) — you have hired, mentored, and shipped with a team.
Production AI/ML systems shipped and operated, not demos — ideally LLM-based products, RAG, or Arabic NLP.
Strong system architecture: APIs, data pipelines, cloud and on-prem deployment, security-first design.
Comfortable with regulated, security-sensitive customers (government, healthcare, finance) and with air-gapped / on-prem constraints.
Fluent in English; Arabic is a strong advantage.
Nice to have:
What we offer
How to apply
Send your CV to [email protected] with the subject line "CTO — [Your Name]". In your email, tell us in a few lines about the most complex system you have shipped and the team you led to build it. We read every application.
