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