Co-Founding CTO

Department: Engineering

Location: Munich

Employment Type: FullTime

About the Role

This is a co-founder role at a pre-seed AI-powered smart home intelligence platform, where you will own the full technical vision and architecture. You will work at the intersection of IoT, cloud, and AI/ML to build systems that help properties detect anomalies, optimize energy, and manage connected devices. Your decisions will shape the product and engineering culture from the ground up.

What You'll Do

• Own and evolve the end-to-end technical architecture across IoT, cloud, and AI/ML layers.

• Lead and grow the engineering team, including hiring and mentoring engineers.

• Drive the technical side of the product roadmap, balancing innovation with practical execution.

• Write production code and solve critical technical problems hands-on alongside your team.

• Represent the technical vision to investors, partners, and external stakeholders.

What We're Looking For

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering or technical leadership, with 3+ years in senior technical leadership roles.

• Proven 0-to-1 startup experience as a co-founder or early CTO, not a purely large-company background.

• Strong IoT and embedded systems background with hands-on product shipping experience.

• Cloud architecture expertise, ideally on AWS, with demonstrated ability to design and deploy scalable systems.

• AI/ML product experience applied to real-world, production systems.

• Experience building and leading an engineering team from scratch.

• Hands-on coder who actively writes production code, not purely a manager.

• Hardware and software crossover experience, with an understanding of embedded and software systems integration.

• Familiarity with smart home, building tech, or energy management domains is a plus.

• German or Spanish language skills are a plus.

• Comfortable working with a stack that includes React, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Raspberry Pi, and IoT platforms.

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary range: 60,000 to 100,000 EUR annually, discussed case by case.

• Co-founding equity up to 5% via an earn-in structure.

• Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

This is a primarily on-site role based in Munich, Germany, with connections to Mallorca, Spain. Candidates must be based in or willing to relocate to the primary location.