Co-Founder & CTO (Solo Builder) - AI Logistics Platform for D2C Brands

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Job Type

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Job Description

AI-driven logistics platform for Indian D2C brands

  • High RTO
  • Fake NDR attempts
  • Courier lies
  • COD fraud
  • Address failures
  • No intelligence
  • No automation

This is not a “CTO with a tech team.”

solo-builder role

If you need a team on Day 1 — this is not for you


Your Responsibilities (You Build Everything)

  • Architect the product end-to-end
  • Build Shopify and WooCommerce plugins
  • Integrate with courier APIs (Delhivery, Xpressbees, etc.)
  • Build the shipping engine (rates, labels, routing rules)
  • Create the tracking system (public + merchant dashboard)
  • Build COD and settlement flows
  • Develop NDR dashboard + messaging flows
  • Set up full DevOps + cloud infra (AWS/GCP)
  • Build first ML model (RTO scoring)
  • Ship WhatsApp automation for COD→Prepaid
  • Implement pre-shipment video capture
  • Build scalable backend for 10k→100k daily shipments
  • Own security, versioning, releases, monitoring
  • Build until we hire more devs

entire engineering department for the first phase.


Skills You Must Bring

Mandatory:
  • Strong backend engineering (Node/Go/Python)
  • API integrations experience
  • PostgreSQL + Redis
  • Queue systems (Kafka/RabbitMQ/SQS)
  • AWS/GCP infra
  • CI/CD and containerization
  • Can build dashboards in React/Next.js
  • Can deliver features without dependencies
Good-To-Have:
  • Shopify API experience
  • WhatsApp Business API familiarity
  • Basic ML (classification models)
  • Logistics or commerce experience

You should not need “data scientists”, “SRE”, “frontend team” or “DevOps team” to get shit done.


Mindset Requirements

This is for someone who:

  • Wants

    equity more than salary

  • Can execute with no support
  • Enjoys solving real-world chaos
  • Prefers building over pitching
  • Can go from zero → working product in 60 days
  • Is willing to own failures and wins
  • Has founder-level hunger, not employee thinking
  • Understands that delays kill startups

anti-bureaucracy and pro-output.

100-Day Build Targets

You alone should ship:

  1. Merchant onboarding + KYC
  2. Shopify integration
  3. 2 courier partners live
  4. Label generation
  5. Tracking page
  6. COD→Prepaid flow
  7. NDR panel
  8. Basic RTO prediction
  9. AWS infra ready
  10. Dashboard for merchants

If this feels unrealistic — don’t apply.

Compensation

  • Equity Only: 10–15%

  • Vesting 4 years / 1-year cliff
  • No salary until revenue or pre-seed
  • Salary after either:
  • GMV milestone
  • Institutional round

If you need a salary now — walk away.


Why This Is Big

undisrupted $50B+ logistics opportunity.

Everyone is slow, outdated and non-technical.

Nobody is using AI to solve:

  • RTO probability
  • NDR pattern detection
  • Courier scoring
  • COD fraud risk
  • Address enrichment

AI OS for Indian logistics.

This is a once-in-a-decade build.

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