Chief Technology Officer

We are seeking a hands-on CTO / Lead AI Engineer to join a new AI recruitment technology startup focused on the US legal and accounting markets. This venture is a spin-off within an established recruitment group, offering its own product, brand, and engineering team. The role involves building and leading the platform’s development, launching a working version within two months, and driving ongoing improvements. You will work closely with the founder and lead a small team of developers, personally writing significant production code while owning architecture, technical decisions, and delivery. The position is remote, based in India or Pakistan, with a full-time commitment of 50 hours per week and compensation up to US$4,000 per month depending on experience.

Key Responsibilities
- Own product architecture, database design, and the technical roadmap.
- Lead hands-on development across backend, frontend, and AI workflows.
- Utilize Claude and Claude Code extensively to accelerate engineering productivity.
- Integrate AI voice/chat capabilities, CV processing, and structured data extraction.
- Manage email, calendar, and other API integrations.
- Conduct code reviews and provide technical direction for one or two developers.
- Oversee deployment, monitoring, security, reliability, and operating costs.
- Maintain clear documentation and regularly demonstrate working software.
- Deliver a live pilot within two months, enabling candidate registration, AI interviews, matching, and profile management.
- Define launch scope, ship features weekly, and test with real users to refine and expand platform capabilities.

Required Qualifications
- Proven experience building a product from concept to production with personal technical contribution.
- Strong full-stack engineering skills, including sound database design.
- Practical experience shipping AI applications used by real users.
- Demonstrated expertise with Claude and Claude Code, including examples of their use in delivering working software.
- Ability to review, test, and maintain AI-generated code effectively.
- Experience with APIs, background jobs, and reliable automated workflows.
- Skill in preventing unsupported AI claims, evaluating output quality, and recovering from failures.
- Excellent English communication skills and the ability to translate commercial goals into engineering priorities.
- Strong ownership mentality: identifying problems, recommending solutions, and ensuring follow-through.

Preferred Qualifications and Benefits
- Recruitment industry experience is highly preferred, especially in building recruitment platforms, applicant tracking systems, candidate matching tools, or recruitment automation.
- Experience with voice AI and marketplace platforms is a plus.
- Previous CTO experience is welcome, though strong technical leads ready to step into the role will also be considered.
- Proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript, modern frontend development, relational databases, and cloud deployment.
- Opportunity to help select the broader technology stack, balancing delivery speed, reliability, maintainability, and cost.
- Remote work with agreed daily overlap with UK working hours.
- Direct collaboration with the founder and long-term potential to lead the engineering function as the business scales.

If you are passionate about taking a product from idea to live operation, writing code, and leading a small engineering team, this role offers a unique opportunity to shape a cutting-edge AI recruitment platform in a fast-growing market.