Founding CTO

Actuall

pre-funding and pre-product

not hiring a full-time salaried CTO today

We’re looking for someone who:

• Wants to be in the founding conversations early
• Believes in the idea of authentic, activity-based social
• Thinks like a product owner, not just an engineer
• Wants to build something that

  millions use daily

• Is comfortable joining

  now for contribution + ownership

  , and

  full-time after our seed round

• Join weekly founder discussions on product & tech
• Help shape our MVP architecture and build plan
• Define system design and infra choices
• Be involved in

  funding + tech pitch discussions

• Help assemble the future engineering team
  

mind first, code later

full-time compensated CTO role

• Competitive salary

• Meaningful ownership (ESOP) with vesting

• Full control of engineering + tech roadmap
• Freedom to build your own team
  

• 10+ years of development experience

• Strong in

  system design + backend + infra

• Experience scaling

  consumer tech

  or

  high-concurrency apps

• Hands-on with

  real-time systems

  ,

  WebSockets

  ,

  low-latency infra

  , or

  voice/video

• Good product intuition — not just a ticket machine
• Wants to build something that changes culture, not just ships features

We are not looking for someone who wants “a safe job.”

skin in the game