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Founding CTO - Technical Cofounder - IC Lead Architect (San Francisco Bay Area)Airawath • San Francisco Bay Area, US
Founding CTO - Technical Cofounder - IC Lead Architect (San Francisco Bay Area)

Founding CTO - Technical Cofounder - IC Lead Architect (San Francisco Bay Area)

Airawath • San Francisco Bay Area, US
6 hours ago
Job type
  • Part-time
Job description

🚀 HIRING : Founding CTO / Technical Cofounder Airawath

📍 Remote (US-Based) Hybrid / Onsite later

🧠 Hands-on Senior IC Architect AI + Consumer + Fintech Builder

💼 Pre-Seed Zero-to-One Environment High Ownership

Airawath is building a next-generation consumer experience that blends AI-driven personalization , e-invitations , social interactions , modern gifting , and future-proof e-commerce and fintech layers all under one beautifully engineered platform.

Were looking for a rare founding CTO someone who :

  • Writes code daily
  • Architects systems from scratch
  • Understands consumer products deeply
  • Has experience in marketplaces, social apps, event platforms, or fintech
  • Can lead engineering end-to-end while working with offshore support teams
  • Wants real ownership and the opportunity to build something iconic

If youre a Silicon Valley-style builder who thrives in zero-to-one environments, we want to talk to you.

🔥 What Youll Build & Lead

AI & ML (Core to Airawath) :

  • Personalization models
  • AI-driven recommendations
  • Semantic search & embeddings
  • Integration of LLM-based user experience
  • Consumer Product Engineering :

  • Robust event / e-invitation workflows
  • Social-features : feeds, interactions, sharing, personalization
  • Highly performant user-facing features with great UX
  • Features that require emotional, relational, and contextual design
  • E-Commerce & Marketplace Foundations :

  • Product catalog systems
  • Integrations with affiliate / product APIs
  • Scalable browsing, filtering, ranking mechanisms
  • Checkout flows (non-financial at this stage)
  • Fintech (Future Ready) :

  • Secure transaction layers
  • Wallet-like systems & balances
  • Transaction logging, auditing, and risk handling
  • (No sensitive fintech details disclosed publicly)
  • Engineering Leadership :

  • Guide offshore developers
  • Recruit the first 36 in-house engineers
  • Define engineering culture, standards, and long-term architecture
  • This role is NOT for a strategic CTO this is for someone who builds, ships, and architects .

    🧠 Technical Strengths Were Looking For

    You must be very strong in most of these :

    Backend & System Architecture

  • Deep expertise in Python, Node, Go, or similar
  • API design, distributed systems, scalable microservices
  • Real-time or near-real-time backend workflows
  • Event-driven systems (Kafka, Redis Streams, etc.)
  • Strong security, authentication, and permissions design
  • AI / ML (Important but not the only requirement)

  • Embeddings, ranking models, personalization
  • Vector search systems (Pinecone, Weaviate, Milvus)
  • AI integration with product flows
  • Experience integrating or fine-tuning LLMs
  • Consumer Applications

    Experience in any of these areas is a big plus :

  • Event / e-invitation platforms
  • Social media features (activity feeds, likes, sharing, comments systems)
  • Creator or content-rich apps
  • High-quality mobile / web UX products
  • Messaging / notification systems
  • E-Commerce / Marketplace

  • Product catalogs
  • Search, filtering, sorting, ranking systems
  • Integration with third-party product APIs
  • Affiliate pipelines
  • Checkout frameworks, cart logic, order history
  • Fintech Fundamentals

    (High-level understanding sufficient for now)

  • Basic card / payment flow understanding
  • Secure transaction models
  • Data integrity and audit trails
  • Not required : prior fintech regulatory knowledge.

    Required : the ability to design secure, compliant-ready systems.

    Who You Are

  • Hands-on senior IC engineer + architect
  • Thrives in ambiguity, speed, and ownership
  • Knows how to balance AI with consumer product needs
  • Obsessed with performance, scale, and user experience
  • Hates corporate layers; loves building
  • Can think in business terms, not just code
  • Wants a true cofounder-level role with meaningful equity
  • 💰 Compensation (Founder-Friendly & Competitive)

    During 3-Month Founder Evaluation (Probation) :

  • Flexible monthly compensation (TBD based on stage and candidate seniority)
  • Full technical authority
  • After Probation CTO + Cofounder :

  • Equity : ~812% (industry-standard for founding CTOs)
  • Salary : Competitive market CTO salary post funding ($110k$160k typical)
  • 4-year vesting, 1-year cliff
  • Ability to build and lead the engineering organization
  • 🌱 Why Join Airawath?

  • Large consumer market with high emotional and social value
  • AI-first personalization with broad potential
  • Multiple product verticals that converge into one platform
  • Real ownership and autonomy
  • Work directly with a founder who is product-driven and vision-oriented
  • A chance to build a category-defining company from the ground floor
  • 📩 Ready to Build Something Iconic?

    Send your intro, GitHub / portfolio, or LinkedIn to :

    📧 sarath@analyticera.io

    Subject : Founding CTO Application Airawath

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    #SocialApps #ProductEngineering #BackendEngineering #PythonDeveloper

    #NodeDeveloper #SystemArchitecture #TechLeadership #ZeroToOne #BuilderMindset

    #SiliconValleyCulture #EarlyStageStartup #HiringNow #Airawath

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