About this role
About the Role
This is a co-founder-level CTO role at an early-stage startup building an AI-powered smart home intelligence platform. You will own the full technical vision, from IoT and embedded systems through to cloud and AI/ML layers, and your decisions will directly shape how connected properties detect anomalies, optimize energy, and manage their systems at scale.
What You'll Do
- Own and evolve the end-to-end technical architecture across IoT, cloud, and AI/ML layers.
- Build and grow the engineering team, including hiring and mentoring engineers from the ground up.
- Drive the technical side of the product roadmap, balancing innovation with practical execution.
- Write production code and solve critical technical problems hands-on alongside your team.
- Represent the technical vision to investors, partners, and other key stakeholders.
What We're Looking For
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering or technical leadership, with 3+ years in senior technical leadership roles.
- Proven 0-to-1 startup experience as a co-founder or early CTO, not a big-company-only background.
- Strong IoT and embedded systems background with hands-on experience shipping IoT products or systems.
- Hardware and software crossover experience, with solid understanding of embedded and software systems integration.
- Cloud architecture expertise, AWS preferred, with a track record of designing and deploying scalable systems.
- AI/ML product experience applied to real-world, production environments.
- Hands-on coding ability; you actively write production code, not purely a manager.
- Experience with technologies such as React, Docker, Kubernetes, Raspberry Pi, and IoT platforms.
- Domain knowledge in smart home, building tech, or energy management is a strong plus.
- German or Spanish language proficiency is a plus.
Compensation & Benefits
- Salary range: 60,000 to 100,000 EUR annually, discussed case by case.
- Co-founding equity up to 5% via an earn-in structure.
- Visa sponsorship is not available.
Location
This is a primarily on-site role based in Mallorca, Spain, with strong ties to Munich, Germany. Candidates must be based in or willing to relocate to Mallorca.