Co-Founding CTO – AI‑Powered Smart Home Platform

About the role

This is a co‑founder‑level opportunity to own the full technical vision of a pre‑seed AI‑powered smart home intelligence platform. You will shape the architecture, build the engineering team and drive product development as the company scales from early‑stage through Series A and beyond.

Key responsibilities

• Own and evolve the technical architecture across IoT, cloud and AI/ML layers.
• Lead and grow the engineering team, including hiring and mentoring engineers.
• Drive the product roadmap from a technical perspective, balancing innovation with execution.
• Write production code and solve critical technical problems alongside your team.
• Represent the technical vision to investors, partners and stakeholders.

Required profile

• 10+ years of software engineering or technical leadership experience, with at least 3 years in senior tech leadership roles.
• Proven 0‑to‑1 startup experience as a co‑founder or early CTO.
• Strong IoT and embedded‑systems background with hands‑on product delivery.
• Cloud architecture expertise, preferably AWS, with ability to design and deploy scalable systems.
• AI/ML product experience applied to real‑world production systems.
• Hands‑on coding ability across a modern stack including React, Docker and Kubernetes.
• Hardware‑software integration experience.
• Domain knowledge in smart‑home, building‑tech or energy‑management is a strong plus.

Required skills

• IoT
• Embedded systems
• AWS
• React
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• AI/ML
• Cloud architecture

What we offer

• Salary range €60 000–€100 000 per year, discussed case‑by‑case.
• Co‑founding equity up to 5 % via an earn‑in structure.
• No visa sponsorship is available.