Technical Co-Founder // Startup CTO (Go and React)
Technical Co-Founder // Startup CTO (Go and React)

Technical Co-Founder // Startup CTO (Go and React)

City of London Full-Time 43200 - 72000 Β£ / year (est.) No home office possible
Go Premium
N

Job Description

We’re looking for a high-caliber engineer to join as a CTO. You should be deeply hands-on with code, technically opinionated, and capable of building production systems from scratch. This is a role for someone who enjoys execution but also has the potential (or ambition) to lead technology at a company-defining level.

πŸ” What You'll Do

  • Build and own core infrastructure and backend systems
  • Design and implement APIs, data models, and scalable services
  • Collaborate closely with founders on product direction and technical architecture
  • Ship code fast, validate assumptions, and iterate
  • Lay the groundwork for the future engineering team (tooling, processes, and architecture)

βœ… Core Technical Requirements

  • Proficient in one or more modern backend languages (e.g. Python, Go, TypeScript, Java, Rust)
  • Strong systems design skills β€” you can model real-world systems and reason about scale, latency, and trade-offs
  • Comfortable building from zero β€” greenfield work doesn’t scare you; in fact, you prefer it
  • Experienced with cloud infrastructure β€” AWS, GCP, or similar; IaC (Terraform, Pulumi, etc.) is a plus
  • Competent with databases and data modeling β€” SQL and NoSQL, designing schema for scale
  • Comfortable writing tests and deploying production systems β€” you care about code quality and reliability

⭐ Bonus Experience (Not Required, but Valuable)

  • Worked at a Pre-Seed or Seed-stage startup through to Series A
  • Built or deployed software used by enterprise customers
  • Experience with applied machine learning or MLOps (not just academic or notebook-based work)
  • Exposure to event-driven architectures, streaming systems (Kafka, etc.), or real-time data pipelines
  • Frontend experience in React, TypeScript, or similar modern frameworks

πŸ“ˆ What We Offer

  • Early-stage equity and the opportunity to shape foundational decisions
  • High ownership, zero bureaucracy β€” build what matters, fast
  • Founders who value engineers, ship code, and work closely with you
  • A role that grows with you β€” if you have CTO potential, you’ll have a path

You should apply if:

You’re an engineer first β€” you solve problems through code, you like building things that work, and you’ve got the technical depth to back it up.

N

Contact Detail:

Nihires Recruiting Team

Technical Co-Founder // Startup CTO (Go and React)
Nihires
Location: City of London
Go Premium

Land your dream job quicker with Premium

You’re marked as a top applicant with our partner companies
Individual CV and cover letter feedback including tailoring to specific job roles
Be among the first applications for new jobs with our AI application
1:1 support and career advice from our career coaches
Go Premium

Money-back if you don't land a job in 6-months

N
  • Technical Co-Founder // Startup CTO (Go and React)

    City of London
    Full-Time
    43200 - 72000 Β£ / year (est.)
  • N

    Nihires

    50-100
Similar positions in other companies
UK’s top job board for Gen Z
discover-jobs-cta
Discover now
>