Principal Architect (AI SaaS)

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Job Description

1) Company Description

AI-driven SaaS company


2) Role Description

Founding / Hands-On CTO (Part-Time initially)

reviewing existing developer work, guiding architecture decisions, and supporting deployment to production

Key responsibilities include:

  • Reviewing and auditing existing backend, frontend, and AI-related development work
  • Challenging architecture, security, and scalability decisions
  • Supporting and overseeing

    deployment to production and post-deployment stability

  • Owning backend architecture, APIs, and authentication flows
  • Overseeing

    AI / LLM integrations

    with cost and reliability controls
  • Reviewing

    PDF ingestion, OCR, and document analysis pipelines

  • Owning

    payments, entitlements, and access-gating logic

  • Ensuring secure cloud infrastructure, logging, and monitoring
  • Acting as the final technical authority until the product is production-ready and stable


3) Qualifications

Required:

  • Strong hands-on experience with

    backend development

    (Node.js or Python)
  • Proven experience shipping

    SaaS products to production

  • Experience integrating

    LLMs / AI APIs

    in real-world applications
  • Solid experience with

    Stripe payments and webhook handling

  • Working knowledge of

    cloud infrastructure

    (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
  • Comfortable reviewing, correcting, and guiding contractor-built systems
  • Product-focused mindset with strong delivery ownership


Desirable Criteria:

  • Experience with document-heavy systems (PDF processing, OCR, parsing)
  • Early-stage startup or founding experience
  • Exposure to investor or due-diligence technical reviews


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