Chief Technology Officer

Job Description

About Loam.ai 🌱 Loam.ai is a stealth-stage, product‑led startup that helps small‑ and medium‑sized businesses unlock the power of AI without a data‑science department. Custom AI Solutions – Tailor‑made language‑ and vision‑based applications that solve a client’s specific workflow or analytics problems. AI‑Tool Curation & Automation Platform – A green‑field SaaS platform that curates the best AI tools on the market and chains them into turnkey workflows any business owner can trigger with a click. Job Title Chief Technology Officer (CTO) – Founding‑level, Full‑Time, Hybrid You’ll be employee #2 on the engineering side and will shape both product lines from zero to scale. Role Overview Technical Leadership (≈40 %) •Own the technical vision and architecture for the platform and bespoke solutions. • Make high‑impact build/buy/accelerate decisions and communicate trade‑offs to non‑technical stakeholders. • Establish engineering best practices, SDLC, coding standards, observability and security baselines. Hands‑on Development (≈40 %) • Write production‑grade code across the stack (Python / Django & React). • Design, experiment with and fine‑tune GenAI/RAG pipelines (Haystack, LangChain, LlamaIndex). • Set up CI/CD, IaC and automated testing from day 1. Team Building & Ops (≈20 %) • Recruit, mentor and eventually manage a small, high‑leverage engineering team. • Coordinate sprint planning, roadmap grooming and cross‑functional communication with Product & Customer teams. • Drive vendor, cloud and budget decisions to optimise burn vs. velocity. Required Qualifications Experience 5 + years designing and shipping production systems in Python & Django . 5 + years building modern SPAs with React (or similar) and TypeScript. Proven record of end‑to‑end ownership of at least one green‑field product from MVP to post‑launch iteration. Strong background in Generative AI / LLM engineering – retrieval‑augmented generation, prompt orchestration, embeddings, model fine‑tuning. Deep familiarity with CI/CD, IaC (Terraform/CDK/pulumi), containerisation (Docker/K8s) and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure). Mindset & Soft Skills Operates autonomously; comfortable making 0‑to‑1 architectural calls under uncertainty. Clear, persuasive communicator who can translate between technical depth and business value. Builder’s mentality with an eye for pragmatic MVPs, rapid iteration and measured technical debt. Nice‑to‑Have Prior experience in a B2B SaaS startup or marketplace. Exposure to WhatsApp Business / conversational‑AI ecosystems. Past leadership of a distributed or hybrid engineering team. Compensation & Benefits Competitive salary tailored to your experience and market benchmarks. Equity – meaningful founding‑team share; structure is flexible. Hybrid work – typically 2–3 anchor days per week in our HQ (Mumbai; relocation support negotiable). Transport & meal reimbursement for in‑office days.