Pinyahta · 1 week ago
Founding CTO
United States
Part-time
Remote
Director/Executive
8+ years expPinyahta is building a trust-first SaaS platform for senior revenue leaders navigating high-risk roles across marketing, sales, customer success, and operations. They are seeking a Founding CTO to act as the technical co-builder and long-term steward of the platform, responsible for defining technical architecture and executing product development.
Computer Software
Responsibilities
Define and evolve the platform’s technical architecture
Make pragmatic decisions around stack, infrastructure, and data models
Balance speed with long-term maintainability, trust, and scalability
Evaluate, evolve, and extend the architecture over time
Build and ship core platform features incrementally
Own reliability, performance, and data integrity
Create clean, extensible foundations without premature over-engineering
Design systems that protect user privacy and platform credibility
Build guardrails that surface signal while preventing misuse or gaming
Establish security and access standards appropriate for a trust-based platform
Anticipate what senior revenue leaders will need months ahead of demand
Challenge roadmap assumptions when market signals suggest a better path
Act as a thought partner on feasibility, sequencing, and constraints
Translate product intent into thoughtful technical solutions
Bring independent judgment—not just execution
User authentication and role-based access
Structured assessments and scoring logic
Company- and role-level data models
Visibility controls, moderation logic, and guardrails
Admin tools for platform oversight
Scalable foundations for future features as the product matures
Qualification
Required
8–15+ years in software engineering or technical leadership
Proven experience building and scaling SaaS products
Comfortable operating hands-on in early-stage environments
Strong product judgment and architectural instincts
Clear communicator who can explain tradeoffs to non-technical partners
Brings a trusted peer network of technical and product leaders
Comfortable working with abstraction layers (including no/low-code platforms) and knowing when to evolve beyond them
Benefits
Equity-only, founding-stage structure
Meaningful ownership aligned with long-term impact
Clear path to a compensated executive role as funding and revenue milestones are reached
Company
Pinyahta
Most marketing leaders are set up to fail.
2-10 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase