Chief Technology Officer

Hands-on CTO / Lead AI Engineer

AI Recruitment Platform | Remote — India or Pakistan

Compensation: Up to US$4,000 per month

Full-time: 50 hours per week

Build the platform. Lead the engineering. Own the delivery.

We are launching a new AI recruitment technology company focused on the US legal and accounting markets.

This is a new spin-off business within an established recruitment group, with its own product, brand and engineering team. The group’s existing recruitment business has its own separate team. This role is dedicated to building and growing the new technology company.

The startup will benefit from the group’s industry expertise, market access and commercial relationships, while developing and marketing its platform as a standalone business.

We are hiring a hands-on technical leader to build the platform, launch its first working version within two months of starting, and lead its ongoing development.

You will work directly with the founder and lead one or two developers. You will personally write substantial production code while owning architecture, technical decisions and delivery.

We expect heavy use of Claude, particularly Claude Code, throughout development. You should already be comfortable using AI coding tools to accelerate implementation, testing, debugging, refactoring and documentation, while taking responsibility for the quality of everything shipped.

What we are building

A shared platform with specialist experiences for lawyers and accountants that automatically:

• Registers candidates and processes their CVs.
• Conducts AI voice or chat interviews.
• Understands experience, qualifications, salary expectations, location and career goals.
• Builds accurate, structured candidate profiles.
• Matches candidates with relevant vacancies and captures their interest.
• Coordinates introductions and hands over qualified candidates with clear summaries and matching information.
• Follows up with candidates and keeps their information current.

Our ambition is to automate the entire candidate acquisition, qualification and matching journey, with reliable handling of exceptions.

Your first two months

You will own delivery of a live pilot where a candidate can register, complete an AI interview, be matched to suitable opportunities and progress through the platform with an accurate, useful profile.

You will define a realistic launch scope, ship working features every week and test the product with real users. From there, you will improve matching, expand automation and develop both specialist markets.

What you will own

• Product architecture, database design and technical roadmap.
• Hands-on development across backend, frontend and AI workflows.
• Extensive use of Claude and Claude Code to increase engineering speed and productivity.
• AI voice/chat integration, CV processing and structured data extraction.
• Email, calendar and other API integrations.
• Code review and technical direction for one or two developers.
• Deployment, monitoring, security, reliability and operating costs.
• Clear documentation and regular demonstrations of working software.

What we need from you

You should be able to demonstrate:

• A product you personally helped build from initial concept to production.
• Strong full-stack engineering skills and sound database design.
• Practical experience shipping AI applications used by real people.
• Strong practical experience with Claude and Claude Code, including examples of how you use them to deliver working software.
• The ability to review, test and maintain AI-generated code.
• Experience with APIs, background jobs and reliable automated workflows.
• The ability to prevent unsupported AI claims, evaluate output quality and recover from failures.
• Strong English communication and the judgement to turn commercial goals into clear engineering priorities.
• Ownership: you identify problems, recommend solutions and follow through.

Recruitment industry experience is preferred, particularly experience building recruitment platforms, applicant tracking systems, candidate matching tools or recruitment automation.

Experience with voice AI and marketplaces would also be valuable. Previous CTO experience is welcome, but a strong technical lead ready to step into the role will also be considered.

Technology

We expect strong capability in Python and/or TypeScript, modern frontend development, relational databases and cloud deployment.

Claude and Claude Code will be central to our development workflow. You will help choose the wider technology stack and explain your decisions in terms of delivery speed, reliability, maintainability and cost.

Working arrangements

• Remote, based in India or Pakistan.
• Full-time commitment of 50 hours per week.
• Agreed daily overlap with UK working hours.
• Compensation up to US$4,000 per month, depending on demonstrated capability.
• Direct collaboration with the founder.
• Long-term opportunity to own technical direction and build the engineering function as the business grows.

How to apply

Please send:

1. Your CV or LinkedIn profile.
2. Links to products you have built, explaining your personal contribution.
3. A brief example of an AI system you shipped and how you made it reliable.
4. Details of how you use Claude and Claude Code in your development workflow.
5. Details of any recruitment industry or recruitment technology experience.
6. Your proposed priorities for the first eight weeks of this project.
7. Your availability, notice period and expected monthly compensation.

Shortlisted candidates will complete a technical discussion and a paid practical assessment.

If you want to take a product from idea to live operation, write the code and lead a small engineering team, we would like to hear from you.