foundermatcha
Founding CTO | AI for Regulated Industries | Remote-First | Significant Equity
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this is initially an equity-only Founding CTO role, with market-rate salary expected after the current fundraise closes in Q3 2026.
About the Role
We’re helping an experienced founding team hire a hands-on Founding CTO / technical co-founder for an early-stage AI platform serving complex, highly regulated industries.
The team already has deep experience across financial services, fintech, AI, regulation and company building, and is currently at advanced stages of raising institutional funding.
A substantial product and proprietary technology base already exists. The opportunity is to inherit it, challenge it where necessary, and take full ownership of turning it into a secure, scalable production platform.
This is build now, lead later: initially highly hands-on, with responsibility for building the engineering organisation as the company grows.
The Product
The company is developing proprietary AI technology to automate and improve complex regulatory and compliance workflows. The platform combines specialist AI models, retrieval and embedding technology with leading commercial and open-source language models.
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The Stack
Python • FastAPI • PostgreSQL • ChromaDB • LangChain • Hugging Face • React • TypeScript • AWS
Exact stack alignment is useful, but technical judgement matters more.
You’ll:
- Take ownership of the existing product, codebase and architecture
- Decide what should be retained, refactored or rebuilt
- Own backend, APIs, AI architecture and infrastructure
- Translate commercial priorities into technical strategy
- Support investor and customer technical conversations
You are:
- A strong hands-on backend or full-stack engineer
- Experienced with APIs, cloud infrastructure and data-intensive products
- Comfortable with modern AI systems, including LLMs, retrieval and embeddings
- Able to move an MVP towards secure, scalable production
- Commercially minded and comfortable making decisions with incomplete information
- Motivated by founder-level ownership, not simply a senior engineering title
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Previous experience as a CTO, technical founder or engineering lead is valuable, but not essential. A strong senior engineer ready to make the step into founder-level responsibility could also be an excellent fit.
We offer:
- Significant founding equity from day one
- A genuine technical co-founder / CTO position
- Market-rate salary following successful completion of the current funding round
- The opportunity to build proprietary AI technology in a commercially valuable regulated market
- Remote-first working
About Foundermatcha
Foundermatcha connects ambitious startup founders with high-potential engineers, technical leaders and future co-founders. Applicants complete a short AI-led interview covering technical background, motivations, working style and suitability for the opportunity.
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