Co-founder / CTO

Company Description Humanus is a marketplace connecting people through time, skills, experience, and wisdom, enabling individuals to share their expertise and personal journeys while setting the value of their own time. The platform allows users to book one-on-one conversations with people who have relevant experience, whether they are navigating careers, planning education, adapting to a new country, or seeking understanding and guidance. Every interaction concludes with mutual reviews, fostering transparency, trust, and accountability within the community. Humanus is built around consent and intention, ensuring that everyone participating is there by choice and open to meaningful, focused conversations.
Role Description The Co-founder / CTO will lead the technical vision, architecture, and implementation of the Humanus platform in a full-time, remote capacity. This role involves defining and owning the product and technology roadmap, making key decisions on tools, frameworks, and infrastructure, and ensuring scalability, security, and reliability of the marketplace. Day-to-day responsibilities include hands-on system design and coding, guiding the development process, establishing engineering standards and best practices, and collaborating closely with the founding team on product strategy, user experience, and growth initiatives. The Co-founder / CTO will also support fundraising and investor conversations by articulating the technology strategy, contribute to hiring and building the engineering team, and continuously use data and research to refine the product.
Qualifications
Candidates should possess strong analytical skills, including problem-solving, data-driven decision-making, and system-level thinking.
Candidates should possess excellent communication skills for clear collaboration with co-founders, partners, users, and future team members.
Candidates should possess sales-related skills, such as the ability to support founder-led sales, communicate value to early users, and contribute to revenue strategy.
Candidates should possess marketing-related skills, including understanding of product positioning, user acquisition, and brand-building in early-stage startups.
Candidates should possess research skills to explore user needs, test hypotheses, validate product features, and stay informed about market and technology trends.
Demonstrated experience as a technical lead or CTO-level contributor in a startup or product-focused environment.
Proficiency in modern web application development, APIs, databases, and cloud infrastructure; ability to select and own the tech stack end-to-end.
Experience designing secure, scalable platforms with a focus on user trust, privacy, and high-quality user experience.
Comfort working in an early-stage environment with ambiguity, taking ownership, and moving quickly from idea to implementation.
Commitment to building an inclusive, respectful, and collaborative culture, with openness to feedback and continuous learning.

Work arrangement
Yes