Co-Founder & CTO (EdTech) — Angular/Node/MongoDB

Co-Founder & CTO (EdTech) — Angular/Node/MongoDB

Be a true co-owner and start something BIG with us. We are a young, ambitious edtech startup founded by a teacher with 15 years of teaching experience. Cucua is a software that saves teachers up to 8 hours a week by automated tests, feedbacks and performance monitors. Our MVP is almost finished—only a handful of tasks remain before we ship and start scaling. We’re looking for a hands-on Co-Founder & CTO who’s strongest on the backend (Node + MongoDB), comfortable with Angular on the frontend, and excited to help lead us from launch to growth.

Timing: We’re targeting a launch in early November 2025 and want to start ASAP.

Compensation: This is an equity-first role (no salary until the first investment) with a significant ownership stake and real decision-making power.

What you’ll do

• Own the technology roadmap from MVP completion to scalable, secure, high-quality product.
• Collaborate on strategy with the founding team: product priorities, customer feedback loops, hiring plans, and investor conversations.
• Wear startup hats: from architecture to devops to quick UI tweaks—whatever moves the needle.
• Ship code daily (especially backend). You’ll architect, implement, review PRs, manage releases, and monitor production.
• Finish MVP: close out remaining tickets, harden the stack, set up CI/CD, testing, observability, and core analytics.
• Migrate from prototype to a scalable web app after first release: evolve architecture (clear modular boundaries, API versioning), refine data models and migrations, add caching/queuing and rate limiting, introduce SLOs/monitoring, strengthen security (OWASP/GDPR), and establish infra-as-code with robust CI/CD for a growing team.
• First months (until the first investment) will be mostly remote. After that, we will open an in-person office.

Our stack (current & near-term)

• Frontend: Angular
• Infra/DevOps: CI/CD (e.g., GitHub Actions), Docker, cloud hosting (AWS/GCP), logging/metrics/alerts
• Quality: Jest or similar, E2E testing, linting/formatting, basic security checks

What you bring

• Willingness to relocate to the Mannheim, Germany area within the next year.
• Founder mindset: drive, great communication, ownership, and resilience.
• 7+ years professional software development, with deep backend expertise in Node.js and MongoDB.
• Solid Angular experience (enough to implement features and guide standards).
• Proven track record shipping production systems end-to-end (architecture, data modeling, testing, deployment, monitoring).
• Strong grasp of security, reliability, and performance in cloud environments.
• Product sense: you translate user needs and business goals into pragmatic technical choices.

What we offer

• Big equity stake as a true co-founder with a say in product, tech, and company direction.
• Ownership of a product in an area with stellar growth rates.
• A driven founding team with a great plan to make this big.
• Hybrid work options.

Hiring process

• On top of submitting the application on LinkedIn, please fill out the Google Form. Start your first answer with "Hallo Mannheim": https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe25Vk7YH0Zcw9GPOy_AgoY1ECnz0QUWLv1zwWHKcXv9p4jVA/viewform?usp=header
• Quick get-to-know chat (20–30 minutes) to see if there’s a mutual fit.
• Coding challenge tailored to our stack (Angular/Node/MongoDB).
• Technical interview.

If you’re energized by building impactful tools for education—and want to own a big piece of something meaningful—let’s connect.

Seniority level

• Executive

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Business Development and Sales

Industries

• Education