A well-funded, technology-first financial services organisation is seeking a Chief Product Officer to lead its global product strategy and execution.

The role is based in the UAE

This is a rare opportunity to shape the future of a digital financial platform at executive level, reporting directly to the CEO and working alongside a world-class leadership team. The successful candidate will define the product vision, build and mentor high-performing product teams, and drive the delivery of innovative products across payments, treasury, lending and AI-powered financial services.

The organisation is entering a significant period of growth, making this a career-defining opportunity for a product leader who thrives in fast-paced, high-growth environments.

The Role

As Chief Product Officer, you will own the end-to-end product function, ensuring product strategy aligns with business objectives while delivering exceptional customer outcomes.

You will:

• Define and execute the company's global product vision and strategy.
• Lead, mentor and scale a multidisciplinary Product organisation.
• Partner closely with the CEO, CTO and executive leadership team on business and technology strategy.
• Drive product innovation across digital financial services and embedded technology.
• Build world-class product management practices, governance and operating rhythms.
• Balance customer needs, commercial objectives and technical feasibility to prioritise investment.
• Champion a product-led culture built around data, experimentation and customer insight.
• Oversee the full product lifecycle from discovery through to launch and continuous optimisation.
• Work closely with Engineering, Design, Data and Commercial teams to deliver market-leading products.

What We're Looking For

• Significant experience leading Product organisations within fintech, banking or financial technology.
• Previous experience building and scaling digital financial products from concept to market.
• Strong understanding of payments, treasury, banking infrastructure or financial platforms.
• Proven ability to lead senior Product Managers and build high-performing product teams.
• Experience operating within high-growth, venture-backed or rapidly scaling technology businesses.
• Strong commercial mindset with the ability to balance strategic thinking and execution.
• Excellent executive stakeholder management and board-level communication skills.
• Passion for innovation and building customer-centric products.

Our client is a highly profitable, technology-driven quantitative trading firm with an exceptional long-term track record across global electronic markets. Following continued growth and expansion across Asia, they are looking to appoint an experienced Portfolio Manager to build and scale systematic trading strategies within a world-class trading and technology environment.

This is an opportunity to join a firm that combines institutional-grade infrastructure, low-latency technology and significant capital allocation with an entrepreneurial culture that allows experienced traders to maximise performance.

The Role

As a Portfolio Manager, you will take ownership of developing, deploying and scaling profitable quantitative trading strategies across global markets. You will work alongside elite researchers, engineers and traders while leveraging best-in-class technology and execution infrastructure.

The role offers significant autonomy and the opportunity to grow a trading business with strong backing from one of Asia's most established quantitative trading firms.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, implement and optimise high-frequency or intraday systematic trading strategies.
• Manage the full lifecycle of your trading portfolio, from research through to live deployment and performance optimisation.
• Monitor market conditions and continuously refine trading models to maximise returns.
• Collaborate closely with quantitative researchers, software engineers and trading technology teams to improve execution and alpha generation.
• Identify new trading opportunities across global futures and derivatives markets.
• Maintain robust risk management processes while ensuring consistent portfolio performance.
• Contribute to the ongoing evolution of trading infrastructure, execution quality and research capabilities.

Requirements

• Proven experience as a Portfolio Manager or Senior High Frequency Trader within a leading proprietary trading firm, hedge fund or quantitative trading business.
• Demonstrated annual P&L exceeding USD 5 million.
• Ability to bring proven, scalable trading strategies or proprietary alpha to a new platform.
• Strong understanding of systematic trading, quantitative research and electronic execution.
• Experience trading one or more of the following markets:
  • Japan
  • Singapore
  • Malaysia
  • Thailand
  • India
  • Australia
  • Taiwan
  • CME Futures
• Experience across Hong Kong, China or Korea will also be considered.
• Expertise in index arbitrage, index roll strategies or other market-neutral systematic strategies is advantageous.
• Excellent quantitative, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong understanding of market microstructure and low-latency trading environments.
• Degree in Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Finance, Economics or a related quantitative discipline.

We are partnering with a highly successful quantitative trading business in Singapore to hire an experienced C++ Software Engineer into its core engineering team. You’ll work on performance-critical technology that underpins live electronic trading, with a focus on low-latency systems, market data, execution, and trading infrastructure.

This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who enjoys solving difficult performance problems and wants genuine ownership of the systems they build.

What You'll Be Doing

• Design, build and optimise high-performance C++ trading systems
• Develop components supporting market data processing, order execution and algorithmic trading
• Improve system latency, throughput and reliability
• Build and enhance frameworks used by quantitative trading strategies
• Develop technology supporting real-time risk and trading operations
• Profile and optimise production systems to identify performance bottlenecks
• Use Python for scripting, testing, automation and integration
• Troubleshoot complex production issues and take ownership of systems throughout their lifecycle
• Work closely with engineers, quantitative researchers and trading teams
• Continuously improve the architecture and performance of the wider trading platform

What We're Looking For

• 5–7+ years of professional C++ development experience
• Strong modern C++ knowledge, ideally C++17/20/23
• Experience building low-latency, high-throughput or performance-critical systems
• Strong understanding of algorithms and data structures
• Experience with multithreading, concurrency and performance optimisation
• Strong Linux/systems fundamentals
• Proficiency with Python
• Ability to write clean, reliable and maintainable production code
• Strong debugging and problem-solving ability
• Comfortable taking ownership of systems running in production

Experience within electronic trading, HFT, market data, exchange connectivity, order management/routing or execution systems would be highly advantageous.

We are partnering with a fast-growing digital banking business that combines ethical financial services with advanced AI-powered technology. The company is building a secure and scalable banking platform designed to serve customers globally while meeting the highest standards of reliability, data protection and regulatory compliance.

About the Role

As a Senior DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for keeping the platform reliable, observable and secure as it scales across a growing number of services.

You will take ownership of the Kubernetes and container infrastructure, strengthen observability and incident response practices, and implement the security and compliance controls required within a regulated banking environment.

The ideal candidate will demonstrate genuine technical depth across four key areas: observability, reliability, containers and security.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor platform health and automate incident detection and response.
• Lead root-cause analysis for production incidents and implement long-term preventative measures.
• Operate and scale Kubernetes clusters, including upgrades, autoscaling, ingress and workload scheduling.
• Maintain high standards across container builds, runtime security and image management.
• Build and improve secure CI/CD pipelines that support rapid, safe and reversible deployments.
• Automate platform infrastructure across multiple environments using infrastructure-as-code principles.
• Ensure infrastructure changes are reviewed, controlled and deployed safely.
• Operate messaging and database platforms, including NATS and PostgreSQL.
• Develop and test backup, disaster-recovery and business-continuity processes.
• Define and improve SLOs, error budgets, alerting and on-call practices.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to wider platform and architectural decisions.

Essential Experience

• Advanced experience within DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering or Platform Engineering.
• Proven responsibility for high-availability, production-grade systems.
• Strong observability expertise across metrics, logs, traces and alerting.
• Experience with tools such as New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana or OpenTelemetry.
• Deep knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes and AWS EKS or an equivalent managed Kubernetes service.
• Production experience with container builds, runtime management, scheduling, ingress and autoscaling.
• Strong understanding of SRE principles, including SLOs, error budgets, incident command, root-cause analysis and disaster recovery.
• Experience building and securing CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with data privacy, residency and regulatory requirements within regulated industries.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to mentor others and influence technical decisions.

Desirable Experience

• Experience within banking, financial services, neobanking or regulated fintech.
• Knowledge of MENA regulatory and data-residency requirements.
• Experience operating self-managed messaging platforms such as NATS, JetStream or Kafka.
• Experience with PostgreSQL in high-availability production environments.
• Familiarity with mobile release processes through App Store Connect and Google Play.
• Previous exposure to AI or machine-learning platforms and infrastructure.

Edison Smart is supporting a high-growth technology business with the appointment of a Head of AI

This is a senior leadership opportunity for someone with deep expertise across artificial intelligence, machine learning and credit decisioning. The successful individual will take ownership of developing and scaling advanced AI capabilities across lending and credit.

The role requires someone who combines strong technical depth with leadership capability and has experience taking sophisticated machine learning models from development through to production at scale.

The Role

You will take ownership of AI and machine learning capabilities across lending, working closely with senior leadership and cross-functional teams to build intelligent, scalable and commercially effective credit decisioning systems.

Key responsibilities include:

• Own the AI and machine learning strategy across lending and credit decisioning

• Build and deploy production-grade models across credit scoring, underwriting, affordability, default prediction and portfolio risk

• Develop advanced credit models using traditional and alternative data sources

• Lead the development of automated and real-time decisioning systems

• Establish robust frameworks for model evaluation, monitoring, explainability and governance

• Build and develop a high-performing AI and machine learning function

• Work closely with Product, Engineering and Risk teams to take models from experimentation into production

• Drive innovation while ensuring scalability, reliability and responsible AI deployment

What We're Looking For

• Significant experience building AI and machine learning systems within lending or credit environments

• Deep expertise across credit scoring, underwriting, credit risk modelling or automated decisioning

• Proven experience taking machine learning models from research through to production at scale

We are working with a global technology business that's investing heavily in its shared client platform, supporting products used by millions of players worldwide.

This is a hands-on senior engineering role where you'll design and build scalable client-side features, influence technical direction, and help maintain high-quality, reliable web and mobile platforms.

What you'll do

• Develop and maintain scalable client applications across web and mobile.
• Build with React, JavaScript/TypeScript, PHP, HTML/CSS and modern frontend technologies.
• Drive code quality through reviews and technical leadership.
• Support authentication, payment and monetisation systems.
• Collaborate with Product, QA and Backend teams to deliver new features.
  
  

Tech Stack

• React, JavaScript, TypeScript
• PHP, WordPress
• Google Cloud Platform, Firebase
• REST APIs, OAuth
• Git, Docker, Jenkins
• Sentry

What we're looking for

• Strong React and modern JavaScript/TypeScript experience.
• Experience building large-scale web applications.
• Knowledge of shared platforms, authentication or payment systems.
• Passion for clean, maintainable code and mentoring other engineers.

Edison Smart are working with a global technology business that's building large-scale backend platforms supporting millions of users. They're looking for a Senior Java Developer to join a high-calibre engineering team focused on distributed systems, cloud infrastructure and high-performance backend services.

This is a hands-on role where you'll design, build and optimise highly scalable Java applications, working with modern cloud technologies, real-time data streaming and microservices architecture.

What you'll do

• Design and develop high-performance backend services using Java.
• Build scalable distributed systems and REST APIs.
• Work with cloud-native technologies, streaming platforms and large datasets.
• Optimise system performance, reliability and scalability.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to deliver production-ready software.

Tech Stack

• Java 11/17+
• Spring Boot, Dropwizard
• Google Cloud Platform
• Kafka, Pub/Sub, Dataflow
• Cassandra, MySQL, BigQuery
• Kubernetes, Docker
• Jenkins, Gradle
• DataDog

What we're looking for

• 6+ years of Java backend development experience.
• Strong background in distributed systems and microservices.
• Experience building high-volume, highly available platforms.
• Knowledge of cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes and containerised applications.
• Strong debugging, performance tuning and system design skills.

Edison Smart are working with a global online gaming business looking to appoint an experienced Fraud, Risk & Payments Manager to lead a specialist team responsible for fraud prevention, payment security and risk operations.

This is a leadership role where you'll oversee fraud, payments, KYC and chargeback operations, working closely with Product, VIP and Customer Support teams to protect the business and deliver a seamless customer experience.

What you'll do

• Lead the Fraud, Risk & Payments team and manage daily operations.
• Investigate suspicious transactions and payment fraud.
• Oversee KYC, chargebacks and payment escalations.
• Analyse transaction data to identify fraud trends and reduce risk.
• Work with payment providers to improve payment security.
• Drive continuous improvements to fraud prevention processes and reporting.

What we're looking for

• 5+ years' experience in fraud prevention, payments or risk management.
• Strong understanding of payments, KYC, chargebacks and transaction lifecycles.
• Experience analysing large datasets using Excel, SQL or similar tools.
• Excellent leadership, analytical and decision-making skills.
• Experience within online gaming, casino or a similar high-volume payments environment is highly desirable.

Edison Smart is working with a global iGaming studio that is continuing to invest in the growth of its Game Design team. As part of this expansion, we're looking for an experienced Senior Slot Game Designer to take ownership of designing innovative, engaging slot games from concept through to launch.

This is an opportunity to join a collaborative international team where you'll combine creativity, mathematics and player psychology to deliver market-leading slot experiences played by audiences around the world.

The Role

As a Senior Slot Game Designer, you'll be responsible for designing engaging gameplay experiences that balance entertainment, mathematical integrity and commercial performance.

Working closely with mathematicians, producers, artists and engineers, you'll develop innovative mechanics, build mathematical models and use player data to continually optimise game performance.

Responsibilities

• Design and own slot game concepts from ideation through to launch.
• Create innovative mechanics, features, themes and bonus games that maximise player engagement.
• Develop and validate mathematical models including RTP, volatility, hit frequency and risk/reward balancing.
• Collaborate with mathematicians to refine gameplay mechanics and optimise player experience.
• Produce detailed Game Design Documents (GDDs) and clearly communicate gameplay vision across multidisciplinary teams.
• Work closely with Product, Engineering, Art and Audio teams throughout development.
• Analyse player behaviour and post-launch performance data to drive future game improvements.
• Playtest games throughout development, providing structured feedback on gameplay, pacing, UI and player experience.
• Support stakeholders by presenting game concepts and explaining core mechanics.

Requirements

• 4+ years' experience designing successful slot games within the iGaming industry.
• Strong understanding of probability, statistics and slot mathematics.
• Advanced Excel skills for modelling and simulations.
• Proven experience balancing RTP, volatility and player engagement.
• Strong understanding of player psychology and retention mechanics.
• Experience creating comprehensive Game Design Documents.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Portfolio showcasing released slot titles.

Nice to Have

• Degree in Mathematics, Game Design or similar.
• Experience with storyboarding or visual design tools.
• Experience working within regulated gaming markets.