Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
⚡ FinTech / Private Markets / Web Development / AI
📍 Remote (EMEA Time Zones preferred)
💰 Equity ownership (10–15%) + future salary/benefits post-MVP
🕐 Full-time
🎓 Proven experience as a full-stack engineer with the ability to ship scalable, production-ready web applications.
Are you an experienced full-stack engineer and technical leader ready to co-found a bootstrapped startup reimagining investment banking? We are seeking a Co-Founder & CTO to lead the design, development, and scaling of a platform that modernizes private market deal-making using data, AI, and a frictionless digital interface. This foundational leadership role starts hands-on, with significant equity in the long-term success of the business.
Your Role:
* Own the end-to-end development of the platform—from MVP through to scalable product iterations.
* Lead full-stack engineering using Django (Python), React, and TypeScript, including architecture decisions, coding, and quality assurance.
* Manage and collaborate with outsourced development teams, ensuring delivery aligns with product goals and quality standards.
* Translate business goals into technical execution, working closely with the founding team to shape product strategy and roadmap.
* Recruit, mentor, and lead the in-house engineering team, including front-end, back-end, and DevOps engineers.
* Establish DevOps practices and infrastructure, with future plans for cloud migration (AWS or Google Cloud).
* Support investor conversations and represent the tech vision externally when needed.
* Drive long-term innovation through a scalable, secure, and AI-enhanced platform.
* Work effectively in a remote-first, globally distributed team.
What You’ll Need:
✔️ Proven experience as a full-stack engineer with the ability to ship scalable, production-ready web applications.
✔️ Deep hands-on experience with Python/Django, TypeScript, and React.
✔️ Strong DevOps/infrastructure knowledge, including familiarity with DigitalOcean, CI/CD, monitoring, and eventual migration plans.
✔️ Experience managing outsourced and distributed development teams, with strong project delivery and code quality oversight.
✔️ A product mindset—comfortable translating abstract business needs into robust, user-centric technical solutions.
✔️ Demonstrated leadership experience or clear potential to build and lead high-performing technical teams.
✔️ Comfortable operating in lean, ambiguous startup environments, taking initiative and making key architectural decisions early.
✔️ Excellent communicator and collaborator; able to work closely with non-technical founders, stakeholders, and future investors.
✔️ Aligned to UK or EMEA time zones, with openness to relocation as a bonus (not required).
Why Join Our Client?
🌟 Equity ownership (10–15%) with a vesting schedule, giving you a true co-founder stake in the business.
🏆 The opportunity to build a company from the ground up, working alongside experienced founders with deep domain knowledge.
💡 A chance to own the tech vision and roadmap of a high-potential, data- and AI-driven B2B product.
🤝 Fully remote, flexible work environment with a collaborative, transparent culture that values impact, ownership, and integrity.
📈 Future salary and benefits post-MVP and revenue/funding milestones.
Apply Now to be considered and we will endeavour to reach out to discuss the role and client in further detail should you be a suitable fit.
If you do not hear back from us within 2 weeks of applying, please consider your application unsuccessful. We thank you for your interest and encourage you to apply for future opportunities.