Co-Founder

About OneAi / XcelAI

OneAi builds XcelAI — a simple, affordable invoice extraction + conversational Excel assistant for small businesses and franchise owners. Our mission: remove manual data entry and make spreadsheet workflows conversational.

Role (summary):

Join as technical cofounder to own backend systems, document ingestion & OCR pipelines, LLM orchestration, infra & security, and delivery of the XcelAI MVP into production.

Responsibilities:

Architect and build the ingestion pipeline (upload → OCR → extraction → DB).Implement and iterate on OCR + LLM-based extraction (Tesseract / Textract / Vision API + prompt/LLM orchestration).Design scalable APIs, job queueing (worker), retries, and monitoring.Implement data model, confidence scoring, and edit/save flows.Manage infra: S3 (or equivalent), Cloud Functions / ECS / Cloud Run, CI/CD, backups.Build export connectors (CSV, Excel, Google Sheets).Ensure basic security & privacy (TLS, auth, encryption at rest).Work closely with founder on product, pilot onboarding, and customer troubleshooting.Mentor engineers and technical hires as we scale.

Must-have:

3+ years backend production experience (Node/Python/Go).Experience with OCR/document parsing (Tesseract, AWS Textract, Google Vision, or Nanonets).Experience with LLMs or prompt orchestration (OpenAI, Gemini, LangChain etc.).Cloud infra experience (AWS/GCP/Azure).Solid DB skills (Postgres, MongoDB) and queueing systems (Redis/RabbitMQ).Familiar with CI/CD, logging, and basic security practices.Clear communicator; willing to do customer onboarding & support for pilots.Comfortable as an early co-founder (equity-first, full-time).

Nice-to-have:

Google Sheets / Excel API integrations.Experience with file processing at scale, multi-page PDFs, or image clean-up.Startup / founder experience.Domain experience with SMB accounting, retail/franchise workflows.

Commitment & Compensation

Part-time founder role.Equity: 20–40% (

negotiable

; typical 4-year vesting with 1-year cliff). Exact split will depend on prior contributions and commitment.Small stipend / monthly support during transition negotiable (recommended to offer a short paid trial).

Title:

CTO / Co-founder.