CTO-Ready Founding Engineer — Build AI Agent Platform

TechTree; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Founding equity

Relocation assistance

Job summary

TechTree is building the operating system for AI-native service companies from San Francisco. You will be one of the first three engineers, the first CTO-calibre hire, setting technical direction and writing much of the early code.

You’ll own architecture, tooling and culture as the team grows, ship quickly with early design partners, and directly talk to customers to turn insights into product. This six-day, in-person role is based in SF with relocation support.

Qualifications

• 2–8 years of hands-on software engineering with production systems you built.
• Experience as founder or early founder/CTO or high-growth startup engineer is a plus.
• Fast learner with distinctive achievements.

Responsibilities

• Build the core agent platform from zero with the founder.
• Ship end-to-end product for design partners quickly.
• Own architecture, tooling and engineering culture as the team grows.
• Talk to customers and translate learnings into product.

Skills

Hands-on software engineering

Fast learner

AI/Agent experience

Customer interaction

Education

CS degree or equivalent

Tools

Python

LLM tooling

Distributed systems

Job description

TechTree is building the operating system for AI-native service companies from San Francisco. You will be one of the first three engineers, the first CTO-calibre hire, setting technical direction and writing much of the early code.

You’ll own architecture, tooling and culture as the team grows, ship quickly with early design partners, and directly talk to customers to turn insights into product. This six-day, in-person role is based in SF with relocation support.