Founding Software Engineer – Path to CTO

Role Overview

• Own the entire technical stack: embedded firmware, cloud backend, and iOS app
• Take over, iterate, and optimise existing STM32-based firmware
• Design and build cloud infrastructure from scratch (APIs, data, scalability)
• Build an iOS app designed for low-literacy, non-technical users (UX, visuals, text-to-speech)
• Collaborate closely with hardware manufacturing partners
• Use AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude, GitHub Copilot) as core development partners
• Travel regularly for hands-on field testing and product launches
• Ship V1 to market in 2025 and continuously improve reliability and usability

Requirements

• Strong software engineering fundamentals (language-agnostic)
• Heavy, demonstrated use of AI coding tools in daily development
• Experience shipping complete products independently
• iOS development experience (Swift / SwiftUI)
• Systems thinking across firmware, backend, and mobile
• Comfort working autonomously as the sole engineer
• At least 5+ years of hands-on engineering experience

Tech Stack

• Cloud
• iOS
• Swift

Benefits

• Significant founding-team level equity with vesting over 3 years
• 28 days vacation per year
• Remote-first working model with regular travel