Financial Planning and Analysis

• Build and operate the core financial infrastructure from the ground up for both: crypto custody + exchange and traditional banking services.
• Lead across five responsibility pillars: Financial Operations/ Accounting, Treasury & Liquidity Management, Financial Planning & Reporting (FP&A), Pricing, Team Leadership.
• Build and oversee end-to-end financial operations, including settlements, reconciliations, and ledger management across fiat, crypto, and investment products.
• Manage relationships with liquidity providers, PSPs, Fireblocks, custodians, Visa/Mastercard, and settlement partners.
• Ensure accurate and timely financial close, consolidation, and reporting across multiple entities and currencies.
• Oversee regulatory reporting, audits, and tax compliance (corporate tax, VAT, transfer pricing).
• Implement strong internal controls and ensure audit-readiness at all times.
• Develop and execute the treasury strategy: cash management, liquidity buffers, and working capital optimization.
• Lead the budgeting, forecasting, and long-term planning cycles.
• Design and oversee the pricing framework for products and services.

Director of Finance and Operations

Frontend Engineer

• Development of high-load microservices in TypeScript within a tech-driven fintech startup.
• Design and implementation of high-load microservices using TypeScript.
• Design of data pipelines and data storage systems.
• Working with queues and asynchronous tasks, data streams, and data lakes.
• Writing unit and integration tests.
• Performance and resource consumption optimization for Node.js environments.
• Participation in architectural decision-making.
• Production system support.

Senior TypeScript Developer

Account Manager

• Identify, evaluate, and onboard strategic partners required for product development and service launch.
• Lead and moderate partnerships across: Banks and financial institutions, Payment systems, PSPs, and card processors, Liquidity providers and trading venues, IT and infrastructure vendors, Blockchain networks and Web3 protocols.
• Own the full partner lifecycle: sourcing, due diligence, negotiations, contracting, onboarding, and ongoing relationship management.
• Lead commercial and contractual negotiations, including pricing, SLAs, liability, and scalability terms.
• Ensure alignment between partner capabilities, product roadmap, regulatory requirements, and technical architecture.
• Work closely with Product, Engineering, Compliance, Legal, and Operations teams to enable partner integrations.
• Manage partner performance, escalations, and contract renewals.
• Continuously assess market alternatives to optimize cost, resilience, and scalability of the partner stack.

Head of Partnerships

Machine Learning Engineer

• Build and deploy NLP models to analyze news, social media (Twitter/X, Discord), and Reddit to gauge market sentiment for stocks and crypto assets.
• Develop systems to identify and extract entities (tickers, company names, wallet addresses, transaction IDs) from unstructured financial documents and chat logs.
• Create pipelines to parse and extract data from financial statements, whitepapers, and regulatory filings (e.g., SEC filings) to assist in automated research.
• Implement NLP techniques to analyze transaction metadata and communication patterns to identify potential money laundering (AML) or fraudulent payment activity.
• Build or fine-tune LLMs (Large Language Models) to power specialized chatbots capable of answering complex queries about portfolio performance, crypto protocols, or trading rules.
• Optimize internal search engines using semantic search and embeddings to help users find relevant financial instruments or transaction history.
• Manage the full MLOps lifecycle, including data labeling for financial jargon, model training, deployment via APIs, and monitoring for "model drift" in volatile markets.

Machine Learning Engineer, NLP

Backend Engineer

• Design and implementation of high-load microservices
• Design of data pipelines and data storage systems
• Working with queues and asynchronous tasks, data streams, and data lakes
• Writing unit and integration tests
• Performance and resource consumption optimization
• Participation in architectural decision-making
• Production system support

Senior Golang Engineer

General Counsel

• Provide expert legal counsel on all aspects of the finance platform’s operations, focusing on the convergence of traditional finance, payments, and digital assets (crypto).
• Own and manage the legal and compliance roadmap for expansion into new target markets, including the UAE and MENA region.
• Draft, review, and negotiate complex commercial contracts, partnership agreements (processors, payment schemes, and exchanges), and vendor contracts.
• Ensure the platform, including products like cards, wallets, and trading features, complies with local and international financial regulations (e.g., AML, KYC, data privacy).
• Advise senior management on corporate governance, licensing requirements, and risk mitigation strategies in a multi-jurisdictional environment.
• Manage regulatory inquiries and external counsel engagement across key operational geographies.
• Create global contract lifecycle management (CLM) processes, including template standardization, review workflows, and a definitive repository for all executed documents.
• Develop, implement, and audit all employment contracts and policies, ensuring strict compliance with UAE Labour Law (including DIFC/ADGM) and EU labor directives.
• Advise HR on complex employment matters, including disciplinary procedures, statutory termination requirements, and end-of-service gratuity calculations (UAE).
• Manage global workforce legalities, including independent contractor classification, remote work policies, and enforceable non-compete/non-solicitation clauses.
• Maintain and enforce the global corporate structure (subsidiary registrations, intercompany agreements) and guarantee all corporate filing deadlines are met.
• Oversee data protection and privacy compliance efforts, including GDPR standards for EU operations and equivalent mandates in the UAE/MENA region.

UMO

Director of Finance and Operations

Senior TypeScript Developer

Head of Partnerships

Machine Learning Engineer, NLP

Senior Golang Engineer

Senior Legal Counsel