Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Engineering Remote or hybrid →

Nolro, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work (US)

Competitive compensation

Equity options

Flexible hours

Collaborative culture

Job summary

Nolro, Inc. is seeking a hands-on CTO to own the technical direction of our AI control plane.

You’ll work directly with the founder to shape architecture, lead delivery, and grow the engineering team across reliability, security, and governance. You will translate ambitious product goals into scalable software, review production code, and mentor engineers while building a trusted platform for policy enforcement, evidence workflows, and auditable decisions.

Qualifications

• Track record of shipping and operating production software with demonstrable ownership.
• Experience leading engineers or owning significant technical decisions.
• Strong fundamentals in backend systems, APIs, databases, cloud infrastructure, and security.
• Practical experience with AI or LLM systems, including evaluating behavior and handling failures.
• Good product judgment; ability to decide priorities and explain tradeoffs.
• Ability to keep changes focused and balance complexity with value.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical roadmap with the founder, aligning priorities to customer needs and company goals.
• Write and review production code, make architectural decisions, and mentor others.
• Connect registry, policy enforcement, monitoring, human review, and evidence workflows.
• Own reliability, security, tenant isolation, and infrastructure costs with robust release processes.
• Engage with users and prospective customers on integrations and product feedback.
• Recruit, mentor, and lead engineers as the company grows.
• Start by understanding the platform, identify key risks, and ship focused improvements.

Skills

Shipping production software

Engineering leadership

Backend systems

APIs

Databases

Cloud infrastructure

Application security

AI/LLM experience

Product judgment

Job description

About Nolro

AI is getting more responsibility. We're building the systems that help people stay in control. Nolro is building the control plane for high-stakes AI. We help organizations register AI systems, enforce policies at runtime, monitor behavior, route important decisions for human review, and preserve the evidence behind what happened. It's a big engineering challenge with a practical purpose: helping people use AI with confidence and answer for the decisions it touches.

This is a fully remote role open to candidates in the United States.

Why this role exists

We're looking for a hands-on CTO to own Nolro's technical direction and work directly with the founder on what we build next. You'll shape architecture, write code, guide product delivery, and help build the engineering team. There's an existing platform to understand and develop, with meaningful decisions ahead about reliability, integrations, runtime controls, and verifiable evidence. You should enjoy big questions, focused improvements, and the occasional extremely satisfying bug fix.

What you'll do

• Own the technical roadmap with the founder, connecting engineering priorities to customer needs and company goals
• Write and review production code, make architectural decisions, and help others do their best work
• Build the connections between our registry, policy enforcement, monitoring, human review, and evidence workflows
• Own reliability, security, tenant isolation, and infrastructure costs, with practical testing and release processes
• Work directly with users and prospective customers on integrations, technical questions, and product feedback
• Recruit, mentor, and lead engineers as the company grows
• Start by understanding the platform, identifying the most important technical risks, shipping useful improvements, and agreeing on a focused roadmap

What we're looking for

• A track record of shipping and operating production software, with clear examples of what you personally built
• Experience leading engineers or taking responsibility for significant technical decisions and delivery
• Strong fundamentals across backend systems, APIs, databases, cloud infrastructure, and application security
• Practical experience with AI or LLM systems, including evaluating their behavior and handling failures
• Good product judgment: you can work through incomplete requirements, choose priorities, and explain tradeoffs
• A thoughtful approach to existing systems: you keep changes focused and introduce complexity when it earns its place
• You might already be a CTO, a technical lead, or a senior engineer who has grown into broader leadership. We care about your judgment, your work, and how you bring people with you

Nice to have

• Experience with enterprise SaaS, developer tools, security, or governance products
• Familiarity with agent permissions, policy engines, observability, or human approval workflows
• Experience with cryptographic signatures, provenance, or tamper-evident records

Why join Nolro

• Help make the important decisions: your perspective will shape the product, architecture, and engineering team
• Work on problems with substance: build systems that connect AI actions to permissions, controls, and evidence
• Stay close to what you build: work directly with the founder and learn from the people using the product
• Help build a team you enjoy working with: we want curiosity, candid conversations, shared wins, and room for a sense of humor
• Bring strong opinions, an open mind, and something you're proud to have built. We'd love to hear the story, including the part that took three attempts