Careers at DCL
For peoplewho care howit is built.
DCL is a small R&D product lab taking on problems that have to hold up under scrutiny: data compliance, financial crime, systems where being roughly right is the same as being wrong. We are hiring now, and we read every open application.
AMMAN, JORDAN · HYBRID · 3 DAYS IN THE OFFICE
A word from the founder
We care about builders.
People who want to grow into something bigger than a number in a cogwheel. The work here rewards a passion for craft. You shine by making something good, not by meeting management expectations that fit a ten-year career plan.
You would be joining early, with real freedom to experiment with new technology, inside clear guardrails set by leadership that has done this before.
Essa Haddad
Founder, Digital Composition Lab
What it is like to work here
The conditions, stated plainly
A small lab is a particular kind of place to work. It suits some people enormously and suits others not at all, so here is what it actually involves.
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Craft is the point
Work is judged on whether it holds up, not on how it was presented in a status meeting. If you do careful work it will be visible here in a way it never is at scale.
02
Real ownership
You own a product surface rather than a slice of a backlog. That means the decisions are yours to make, and the consequences are yours to sit with.
03
New technology, clear guardrails
There is genuine freedom to try things, set inside limits drawn by people who have taken systems into production before. Experiment, but know where the edges are.
04
Hybrid in Amman
Three days in the office and two from home. The office days are for the work that goes better with everyone in a room, which is most of the hard parts.
Open roles
Seats open now
Hybrid · Amman, Jordan
Expected to open
These two are coming as the products move from research into production. We are talking to people now so that the search is short when the seat opens.
Infrastructure Engineer
Expected to open
The platform underneath everything: environments, pipelines, observability, and the data residency guarantees we make to clients.
View full job descriptionMachine Learning Engineer
Expected to open
Classification and detection models for compliance and financial crime, taken from research through to something that survives production traffic.
View full job descriptionWhat we look for
Traits, more than a CV
Titles and years matter less here than they would at a large firm, because there is nowhere to hide in a team this size. These are the things that actually predict whether someone does well at DCL.
- You are drawn to the craft itself, rather than to the career choreography around it.
- You can hold a problem long enough to understand it before reaching for a solution.
- You write and speak clearly. In a small team, unclear thinking is expensive quickly.
- You have built something nobody asked you to build.
- You want to be early rather than comfortable, and you know those are different things.
How we hire
Five steps, about two weeks
You will know where you stand at every stage. The work assessment is a real day of work and it is paid, because asking for free labour to prove you are worth hiring is not how we would want to be treated.
CV review
We read it properly. You hear back either way.
Call with Essa
Forty-five minutes with the founder. Your work, our work, and whether the fit is real.
Paid work assessment
One day on a realistic problem, paid at a fair rate. The closest either of us gets to trying the job.
Team session
Time with the people you would work beside, so the decision runs in both directions.
Offer
Made quickly once we are sure. About two weeks from first contact to here.
Open application
None of these fit?
Apply anyway. Choose “Open application” in the form and tell us what you have built and what you want to build next. We keep good applications on file and come back to them when a seat opens.