Founding CTO

We’re looking for a Founding CTO / Technical Co-Founder to join the founding team of an early-stage AI company building an agentic operating system for enterprise finance. You’ll own technical strategy, architecture and engineering execution, initially remaining hands‑on before transitioning into a broader leadership role as you build and scale the engineering organisation.

Must Haves

• Strong background as a Staff/Principal Engineer, Engineering Lead or Technical Co-Founder, with genuine technical leadership experience
• Experience building complex platforms from 0-to-1 and scaling systems for significant enterprise use
• Hands‑on experience with enterprise automation, workflow systems or agentic automation
• Strong understanding of systems architecture, domain modelling and knowledge representation
• Practical experience building AI agent systems in production, including orchestration, context, guardrails and stateful workflows
• Strong understanding of security, auditability and system correctness
• Experience leading engineering teams and establishing strong engineering practices
• Confident communicating with enterprise customers and security teams
• Technically strong enough to remain hands‑on with application development and architecture

Nice to Haves

• Experience building technology for enterprise finance, revenue management or other complex financial environments
• Strong knowledge of agentic AI architecture, including human‑in‑the‑loop workflows and exception handling
• Experience designing systems where automated decisions are traceable, verifiable and auditable
• Exposure to SOC 2, RBAC, data residency or similar enterprise security requirements
• Experience integrating data across ERP, CRM and billing platforms
• Experience with GCP, DBT, Palantir Foundry, Laravel/PHP or modern agentic frameworks
• Previous experience within an early‑stage startup or founding team
• A strong academic, engineering or competitive programming background would be beneficial