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.
Is this the next step in your career Find out if you are the right candidate by reading through the complete overview below.
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.