Tech Lead / CTO (Remote)

Tech Lead / CTO

Company Overview

Stealth AI Startup

Mission
Provide world-class legal services, instantly accessible to everyone.

The Vision
The First Vertically Integrated Full-Service Platform for Legal, enabling the end-to-end completion of legal requests with the help of AI agents and experts in the loop.

The Problem & Solution
Problem: Lawyers are trapped in the time-for-money model, selling their intellect in finite blocks of time, effectively capping their potential. Customers are stuck battling over-regulation, getting slow, expensive, and opaque legal services.
Solution: We don't just offer legal knowledge; we democratize access to top-tier expertise. We turn fragmented legal tasks into streamlined, end-to-end outcomes while allowing professionals to transform their knowledge into scalable, agentic services.

Traction & Context
Founded: July 2025
Funding: €1.3M Pre-Seed
Status: MVP in beta
Traction: 50+ customers on LOI / waitlist + paying beta customers
Runway: 2+ years

Job Summary

Role: Technical Co-Founder and Tech Lead / CTO

The Engineering Challenge
You'll lead the building of the Platform for Legal Task Completion: Agentic Architecture: Design infrastructure that lets legal experts define multi-step workflows that agents execute autonomously (with traceability).
Verified Intelligence: Constrain reasoning with expert-defined guardrails, validations, and escalation paths, so outputs are reliable and defensible.
Scale & Reliability: Architect a platform that can run hundreds of thousands of legal tasks, host creator-built services, and do so securely, observably, and cost-efficiently.

Tech Stack
We are pragmatic about it, but currently use:

• Python, Pydantic, PydanticAI, FastAPI
• Flutter
• Google Cloud
• ...or whatever you think is needed.

Key Responsibilities

• Own technical vision, architecture, and engineering standards.
• Lead and grow an elite team (hire A-players; coach; set the bar).
• Stay hands-on (50%+ coding initially).
• Build engineering processes that scale: delivery cadence, quality gates, security, testing, and observability.
• Manage externals (freelancers/contractors) when needed, without becoming dependent on them.
• Work closely with product, legal experts, and customers to ship what matters.

Requirements / Qualifications

• 8+ years software engineering experience.
• Built and shipped real products (not just prototypes).
• Experience leading and hiring a technical team.
• Strong technical judgment: pragmatic, structured, and opinionated on quality.
• Entrepreneurial mindset: you move without being asked, communicate early, and own outcomes.
• Located in Berlin/Potsdam or willing to relocate (hybrid, but we value building together).

Preferred Qualifications

• Agentic / LLM application experience (or strong curiosity + ability to learn fast).
• Marketplace / workflow systems / B2B SaaS experience.
• Security & compliance mindset in sensitive domains.

Location

Berlin, Germany, Remote: True

Employment Type

Full Time

Salary & Benefits

What We Offer

• Co-founder-level impact: You will shape the product, team, and architecture from the core.
• A mission that matters: Building the future of legal service delivery to accelerate customers globally.
• A-player culture: High bar, low politics, high ownership.
• Hard problems in systems, product, and applied AI, with real customers.
• Compensation: Competitive salary + meaningful founder equity (real share ownership and voting rights, not just token options).
• Long-term vision and 2+ years of runway.

Application Process

How to Apply

Please let us about know:

• 2 to 3 things you've built that you're proud of (links welcome).
• What kind of systems you like to own (and why).
• (Optional) A quick note on why legal + agentic workflows interest you.
• (Bonus) Open source projects and/or code samples.