Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Location
Dubai, Dubai, ae
Posted
Jul 22, 2026
Last seen
Oct 6, 2026

About the role

What You'll Do

Define the Technology Vision & Strategy

- Define and own Sana Commerce's long-term Technology vision, ensuring our platform supports the company's growth ambitions and positions us as the leading B2B eCommerce platform. - Build a technology roadmap that balances innovation, platform scalability, operational excellence, security, and long-term sustainability. - Inspire the organization with a clear technology vision and ensure engineering strategy supports business and product objectives. - Define a long-term technology strategy that supports the continued evolution of our platform from a modern SaaS application into a highly scalable, cloud-native architecture. - Partner closely with Product leadership to ensure technology investments support both immediate customer value and long-term platform evolution.

Elevate Engineering & Technology Performance

- Provide strategic leadership to the global Engineering and IT organizations. - Ensure engineering execution is reliable, scalable, predictable, and aligned with business and product priorities. - Champion technical excellence through modern software development practices, architectural discipline, cloud transformation, security, and platform modernization. - Leverage AI and automation to improve software development, testing, quality assurance, and overall engineering effectiveness. - Reduce technical complexity through Eliminate, Standardize, and Automate principles while continuously improving engineering efficiency.

Deliver a World-Class Platform

- Own the overall health and technical lifecycle of our SaaS platform, including performance, reliability, quality, security, scalability, and resilience. - Drive platform improvements that increase developer productivity, engineering velocity, software quality, and customer satisfaction. - Ensure strong cross-functional alignment on release planning, technical priorities, resource allocation, and execution. - Build a technology organization capable of supporting long-term global growth.

Drive Innovation

- Identify and evaluate emerging technologies that strengthen Sana Commerce's competitive position. - Lead the adoption of AI, automation, and modern engineering practices to improve both product capabilities and engineering productivity. - Create an environment where innovation is encouraged while maintaining operational excellence and platform stability.

Build & Lead High-Performing Engineering Teams

- Develop and strengthen the global Engineering leadership team. - Build our Engineering hub in Egypt as a strategic redundancy to our engineering organization in Ukraine. - Build succession depth, leadership capability, and attract exceptional engineering talent. - Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, transparency, collaboration, and continuous improvement across Engineering and Technology.

Who You Are

You are a visionary technology leader who combines strategic thinking with operational excellence and knows how to scale engineering organizations in fast-growing SaaS businesses.

You bring:

- 10+ years of senior technology leadership experience, including experience leading large Engineering organizations in fast-growing SaaS businesses, ideally within B2B Software or eCommerce. - Experience scaling globally distributed Engineering organizations across multiple countries and cultures, including offshore engineering teams. - Deep expertise in cloud architecture, software engineering, platform modernization, distributed systems, engineering execution, and SaaS technology. - Experience leading large international engineering organizations through periods of rapid growth and organizational transformation. - Strong commercial acumen with experience balancing technology investments, engineering efficiency, platform costs, and business outcomes. - Demonstrated success building high-performing engineering cultures and developing senior technology leaders. - A data-driven mindset combined with strong strategic judgement. - Excellent communication and executive stakeholder management skills.

A hands-on, results-oriented leadership style—you create momentum, remove obstacles, and enable teams to succeed.

Why This Role Matters

- As Chief Technology Officer, you will shape the technology foundation that powers Sana Commerce's future. - You will lead one of the company's most critical functions, define our long-term technology strategy, build a world-class engineering organization, and ensure our platform continues to scale securely and reliably as we grow globally. - As a member of the Executive Team, you will influence the long-term direction of the business while building the technology capabilities that will enable Sana Commerce to achieve its ambition of becoming the market leader by 2028. - Your leadership will directly determine how effectively we innovate, scale, and deliver technology that creates lasting value for our customers.

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