Technology Lead

We are Paws & Co, the first veterinary brand in this region built to be loved, not just visited. We open in Dubai in December 2026 on a simple idea: pet parents deserve peace of mind, and vets deserve a place that protects them. One personalised membership built around each pet, a team that treats them like their own, and work that is about prevention and continuity, not one-off visits when something has already gone wrong. Care before commerce.Technology is not a bolt-on for us, it is how the whole model works. The membership, the records, the booking, the telemedicine, the care plans: all of it runs on software we own. This is the senior pair of hands that builds it. Working with our CTO, you lead the day-to-day build, set the standard for the code that ships, and keep the whole thing moving as we scale across the GCC.If you want to maintain someone else's stack, this is not it. If you want to build the thing itself, read on.The roleYou are the technical lead on the build. Hands on the keyboard, and leading from the front. You ship the website and the app yourself, you connect the systems that run the clinic, and you set the technical standard for everything the development pod puts out. The CTO owns the strategy and the roadmap. You own the architecture and turning it into working, reliable software, and we want to hear how you would build it. You use AI as a force multiplier across the whole stack, in the product and in how you work.What you will do

• Lead the build of the website and CMS, kept fast, stable and well documented. You help choose the architecture, you do not inherit it.
• Build the app: pet health records, booking, telemedicine, vaccination tracking and personalised care plans, built in-house and owned by us.
• Integrate the clinical backbone: connect the practice management system, payments, memberships and the data flows that tie the clinic, the app and the member together.
• Uphold data protection and security to UAE PDPL standard. We hold sensitive medical and personal data, and it is handled properly, every time.
• Lead the development pod technically: set the standards, review what ships, and hold the quality bar alongside the CTO.
• Build AI into the product and the workflow: prompt engineering and AI-native development as part of how the product and the team work.
• Keep the whole system reliable and ready to scale as clinics multiply across the region.What you bring
• Strong full-stack engineering across a modern web stack and relational data. You build and ship, you lead by doing, and you can justify the technical choices you make.
• Real experience integrating third-party systems and APIs: practice management, payments, authentication, the messy middle where systems have to talk.
• AI fluency is a must. You are comfortable with modern AI coding tools and prompt engineering, and you build AI into product and process. This is a hard requirement, not a nice to have.
• Sound instincts on data protection and security, and comfort working with regulated or sensitive data. Health data experience is a plus.
• Experience leading other developers or a pod, or briefing an agency, and holding a standard on what comes back.
• Product sense: you build for the person using it, not just the ticket.
• The temperament to lead a build: comfortable owning a lot, shipping fast, and keeping it stable while you do.What we offer
• Above-market pay, and the chance to build the technical backbone from the ground up.
• Our wellbeing programme, the first in the region to take team mental health seriously.
• A real voice in the product and how it works, close to the CTO and the founding team, not layers away.
• A modern, AI-native way of working, and real ownership of the architecture and the tooling you choose.
• One percent of everything we make going back to animal welfare, through our Community Fund.If you want to build the thing itself, come and build it with us. About Paws & CoPaws & Co is the first subscription-first veterinary brand in the region, opening in Dubai and scaling across the GCC and into Asia Pacific. 50+ clinics. One name. One standard. One promise. We are building the clinic pet parents deserve and the one the profession deserves at the same time: care before commerce, prevention over transactions, and vets who are supported, not squeezed. One percent of everything we make, our time and our product goes back to the animals who need it most. Founded by a team with a strong track record of building businesses in the UAE, and led clinically by Dr. Farah Murrani, with 25 years across the UAE, GCC, USA and South Africa.