Chief Technology Officer

Founding Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

10% Equity | PropTech + AI | Founding Team

The Opportunity

We are assembling the founding team behind a new company designed to challenge one of the largest and most established consumer industries in America.

We aren’t ready to publicly share everything we’re building.

But we can share the thesis

AI is about to dramatically change the economics of selling a home. We intend to be ahead of that change.

We are building a national real estate platform that combines AI-powered listing technology, transparent flat-fee services, and an optional layer of in-person support into a fundamentally different consumer experience.

Not another lead-generation company.

Not another CRM.

Not another slightly cheaper version of a traditional brokerage.

Something different.

And we’re looking for the Founding CTO who wants to build it with us.

Why This Is Interesting

Most startups entering real estate eventually encounter the same problem

They can build the technology.

They can raise money.

They can generate demand.

But actually operating a brokerage nationally introduces an enormous regulatory and licensing challenge.

We have an opportunity to approach the market with licensing capabilities across all 50 states from the beginning.

That changes what can be built.

Instead of proving a concept in one state and spending years assembling the infrastructure required to expand, our ambition is national from day one.

Combine that with experienced leadership, strong sales capabilities, direct industry knowledge and a business model that has already attracted significant interest from venture capital, private industry and strategic players, and we believe the ingredients exist to build something unusually large.

What We’re Building

We won’t publish the entire product roadmap here.

The broader vision is straightforward

Flat-fee real estate + AI listing technology + optional in-person services.

We believe homeowners should be able to use technology to handle significantly more of the home-selling process themselves while having professional assistance available exactly when they need it.

That means rethinking the entire experience rather than simply digitizing the traditional one.

The technology could ultimately touch areas including

* AI-assisted property listing

* Pricing and market intelligence

* Listing distribution

* Marketing automation

* Transaction management

* Consumer guidance

* Showing coordination

* Document workflows

* Communications

* Brokerage operations

* Marketplace/service infrastructure

* Local, on-demand assistance

Some of what we intend to build is obvious.

Some of it isn’t.

The latter is a major reason we’re intentionally keeping this description broad.

Your Role

You would join as our Founding Chief Technology Officer and a true equity partner.

This is not a position where someone else hands you a finished product specification and asks you to manage engineers.

You will help determine what the product becomes.

You’ll work directly with the founding team to translate a significant industry opportunity into a technology platform capable of operating nationally.

Early on, you’ll be a builder.

You’ll architect.

You’ll prototype.

You’ll write code.

You’ll experiment with AI.

You’ll decide what we build internally and what we integrate.

You’ll probably kill some ideas and discover better ones.

As the company grows, you’ll build the engineering organization around the architecture and technical vision you helped establish.

The Technical Challenge

We aren’t looking to sprinkle AI on top of an existing brokerage model and call it innovation.

The question we’re interested in is much larger

If you were designing the process of selling a home today, with modern AI, automation and software available from the beginning, how much of the traditional model would you actually recreate?

That’s the problem we want our CTO thinking about.

The platform will require a combination of sophisticated consumer software, AI systems, real estate data, APIs, transaction infrastructure, brokerage operations and automation.

And there is substantial room for the CTO to influence how those pieces come together.

Who We’re Looking For

We’re looking for a technical founder, not simply an employee with a CTO title.

Someone who can move between architecture and execution.

Someone who can build the first version and eventually recruit the people capable of building the hundredth.

Experience with several of the following would be valuable

* Full-stack application development

* AI/LLM systems

* Agentic AI and automation

* API architecture

* Cloud infrastructure

* Data-intensive applications

* SaaS platforms

* Marketplaces

* FinTech or PropTech

* Payments

* Security and privacy

* Real estate/MLS data

* Scaling engineering organizations

Real estate experience is helpful, but not necessary.

The ability to build quickly, think independently and recognize enormous technical leverage is.

Why Join Now?

Because the most interesting time to join a company isn’t after everything is obvious.

It’s before.

The founding team brings experience across real estate, brokerage operations, strategy, sales, marketing, product development and company growth.

We have a significant structural advantage that would be difficult for a new entrant to reproduce quickly.

We have a defined market thesis.

We have a clear vision.

And we are intentionally leaving one major seat at the founding table open

Technology.

The person who fills it won’t inherit the technical strategy.

They’ll create it.

Compensation

This is an equity-first founding opportunity.

Founding CTO Equity: 10%

That’s meaningful ownership because we want meaningful commitment.

We aren’t looking for someone to spend a few hours each week advising us from the sidelines. We want someone who wants to become one of the people who built the company.

The equity structure would be formally documented with appropriate founder vesting and protections.

As funding and/or revenue support it, the position is intended to evolve into a compensated executive role while retaining the CTO’s meaningful ownership position.

The Bigger Picture

The residential real estate industry represents an enormous amount of consumer spending.

Technology has changed almost everything surrounding the transaction.

Search changed.

Marketing changed.

Mortgage technology changed.

Consumer behavior changed.

And now AI is changing what consumers can reasonably do for themselves.

We believe that creates a window for a very different kind of real estate company.

One that combines technology, national brokerage infrastructure and real-world services rather than choosing between them.

We have a very specific vision for what that company can become.

We’re intentionally not putting all of it in a job posting.

If you’re the kind of technical founder who sees a massive legacy industry and immediately starts wondering how much of it can be rebuilt, we’d like to show you the rest.

Employment Type

Pay: $60.00 - $75.00 per hour

Expected hours: 1.0 – 30.0 per week

Work Location: Remote