Founding Product Engineer Venture Platform & Infrastructure

The Utopia Venture Platform

We're looking for a founding product engineer to build the platform and infrastructure side of Utopia OS. You ll design, develop, and scale the shared systems, data pipelines, and full-stack applications that power dozens of AI-native ventures launching from Doha for the Global South.

You ll combine deep backend expertise with the ability to deliver seamless, data-driven web experiences that make AI-native venture building faster and smarter.

You will work as part of a product trio with the Design Lead and the Rapid Prototyping Engineer, making joint decisions on discovery, scope, and technical approach.

Responsibilities

Platform Engineering & Infrastructure

• Architect, build, and maintain Utopia OS infrastructure: auth, data systems, deployment, monitoring, analytics

• Develop full-stack web apps and plugins for studio-wide decisioning and analytics

• Build and maintain data pipelines for ingestion, transformation, and deployment across all ventures

• Develop and maintain robust backend systems and APIs, integrating modern databases (Postgres, Supabase, PlanetScale) and data architectures (Iceberg, Delta Lake).

• Implement data pipelines and transformation workflows (Dagster, Airflow) to enable real-time analytics across ventures.

• Create clear, reusable documentation and internal tooling to standardize engineering practices across the platform.

• Take early-stage products and harden them for scale, reliability, and compliance.

• Collaborate with design and product teams to translate data and infrastructure capabilities into intuitive user experiences and venture-facing tools.

• Implement CI/CD, observability, and security frameworks across the portfolio

• Design deployment templates for multi-tenant environments and enterprise integrations

Collaboration & Engineering Excellence

• Work closely with venture teams to integrate AI workflows and shared infrastructure

• Improve developer experience through modern, intuitive tool design

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers and fellows fostering a culture of learning, experimentation, and shared standards across the Studio.

• Document architecture, standards, and playbooks so they can be reused across the studio

• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both engineering and non-technical stakeholders turning systems thinking into shared understanding.

• Stay current with advances in generative AI, data infrastructure, and modern web engineering

• Work in a tight loop with the Design Lead on design system needs and with the Rapid Prototyping Engineer to productionize validated prototypes into secure, scalable services.

• Co-own technical discovery with the product trio: define evaluation plans, success metrics, and risks before committing to builds.

• You ll also help the team build shared capabilities typically owned by dedicated functions like LLMOps, Data Engineering, and Security but in a lean, integrated way.

• That means establishing lightweight evaluation pipelines, data ingestion templates, and security practices that can scale across multiple ventures without extra overhead.

• These foundations will later evolve into formalized systems as Utopia grows.

• We operate as a compact, AI-native core team covering product, design, and engineering end-to-end.

• Each of us contributes to early foundations in areas like evaluation, data, research, and security, ensuring the platform scales responsibly without added layers or headcount.