We are partnered with a fast-growing, VC-backed technology scale-up that’s redefining how businesses use AI-powered conversational solutions to engage customers. With a strong client base already in place and ambitious international expansion plans, they’re now hiring their first CTO to take ownership of the technology vision and strategy.
This is a founding leadership role, reporting directly to the CEO, with a competitive package and meaningful equity.
What you’ll be doing
* Defining and executing the technology roadmap and long-term architecture.
* Staying hands-on across Node.js, Python, SQL, and LLM/AI integrations.
* Building scalable APIs to enable integrations and cross-sector expansion.
* Designing and optimising data pipelines to power analytics and AI-driven insights.
* Establishing engineering best practices, DevOps, security, and data governance.
* Growing the team to 12–16 engineers over the next year.
* Acting as a technical partner for enterprise clients and supporting commercial growth.
* Supporting fundraising and investor discussions, including technical due diligence
What they’re looking for
* Proven technical leadership in a startup/scale-up, ideally from seed to Series A.
* Hands-on coding skills across Node.js, Python, SQL, and APIs.
* Experience with AI/LLM integrations.
* Track record of building and scaling data pipelines and working with large datasets.
* Experience growing and leading high-performing engineering teams.
* Strong communication skills, able to engage with engineers, partners, and investors.
Nice-to-haves: multi-channel systems experience, exposure to complex data sets, strong grounding in enterprise-level security, and DevOps/cloud knowledge.