Job Description
Weβre 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.
π 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)
β 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 doesnβt 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
β 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
π 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, youβll have a path
You should apply if:
Youβre an engineer first β you solve problems through code, you like building things that work, and youβve got the technical depth to back it up.
Contact Detail:
Nihires Recruiting Team