Hands-On CTO for AI-Driven Hospitality Platform

Together for Talent; United States; On-site; USD 225,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Competitive salary

In-office Williamsburg

Job summary

Together for Talent is seeking a hands-on CTO/VP of Engineering in Williamsburg, NY to lead a small engineering team building an AI-powered platform for hotels. You will own technical direction, architecture, and developer practices while delivering production software and integrations.

You’ll partner with the CEO, shape product priorities from customer feedback, and grow the team with a bias toward practical, well-built software. Equity is offered as part of the package.

Qualifications

• Recent, substantial experience building and operating production software across modern web, cloud, and data technologies.
• Meaningful experience shipping LLM-powered or agent-based systems beyond prototypes.
• Practical understanding of AI evaluation, tool use, context management, failure recovery, and the tradeoffs between cost, latency, and reliability.
• Strong product instincts. You challenge assumptions, understand customer needs, and help decide what’s worth building.
• Evidence of technical leadership: setting direction, earning trust, mentoring engineers, and taking responsibility for outcomes.
• Experience hiring and developing engineers, or demonstrated readiness to take on that responsibility.
• Comfort with early-stage ambiguity and a bias toward useful, well-built software.
• Humility, kindness, and the ability to raise standards without adding bureaucracy.
• Experience in vertical SaaS, complex integrations, workflow products, hospitality, or travel is helpful.
• Familiarity with our tech stack: TypeScript across the full stack. Backend: NestJS, Postgres, TypeORM. Frontend: React, Next.js, Tailwind CSS. AI: Anthropic and OpenAI models through the Vercel AI SDK, ElevenLabs for voice, and production agentic workflows. Infrastructure: AWS and Vercel, with Stripe for billing.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction and make architecture decisions that support today’s customers and tomorrow’s growth.
• Stay active in the codebase, shipping critical features and solving difficult technical problems.
• Build dependable integrations, data systems, and AI-powered workflows.
• Strengthen reliability, security, observability, and engineering quality without introducing unnecessary process.
• Work with the CEO and customers to translate business problems into product priorities.
• Hire, coach, and develop the engineering team.
• Establish thoughtful AI-assisted development practices across testing, code review, documentation, and human oversight.
• In your first 90 days, you’ll get close to the product and codebase, establish clear technical ownership, improve reliability, and shape architecture and hiring priorities—all while continuing to ship.

Skills

Production software

LLM-powered systems

AI evaluation

Product instincts

Technical leadership

Hiring engineers

Tools

NestJS

PostgreSQL

TypeORM

React

Next.js

Tailwind CSS

Vercel

Stripe

AWS

OpenAI

Anthropic

Vercel AI SDK

Job description

Together for Talent is seeking a hands-on CTO/VP of Engineering in Williamsburg, NY to lead a small engineering team building an AI-powered platform for hotels. You will own technical direction, architecture, and developer practices while delivering production software and integrations.

You’ll partner with the CEO, shape product priorities from customer feedback, and grow the team with a bias toward practical, well-built software. Equity is offered as part of the package.