🚀 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.

We’re 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 you’re a Silicon Valley-style builder who thrives in zero-to-one environments, we want to talk to you.

🔥 What You’ll 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 3–6 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 We’re 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: ~10–12% (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

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