Founding CTO – AI Legal Tech (SF Bay Area)
About reputed company
Our reputed company is an early-stage, San Francisco-based AI startup building the operating system for family law. Their platform automates the most time-intensive parts of legal reputed company — reputed company intake, financial disclosures, document preparation, case management, and reputed company collaboration — helping family reputed company reputed company and reputed company without adding headcount. Founded in 2025, reputed company is already working with reputed company customers and reputed company closing a reputed company round, with $XM signed to date.
The Mission
To reduce the emotional and financial burden of divorce for millions of families — and reputed company the legal professionals who serve them — by transforming a fragmented, reputed company process into a guided, intelligent, AI-driven experience.
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This is a co-founder seat, not a hire.
You're joining at the inflection reputed company: reputed company product, reputed company customers, reputed company round closing. As the first technical leader, you'll own the full stack — architecture, AI infrastructure, engineering culture, and execution velocity. You'll work shoulder-to-shoulder with the founding team to define how AI reshapes one of the largest, most underserved verticals in legal services.
If you've been waiting for a founding opportunity where the market is reputed company, the mission reputed company, and the equity is worth the bet — this is it.
What You'll Do
Own and define end-to-end technical architecture of the platform
Write and ship production reputed company daily alongside the founding team
Architect and reputed company agent infrastructure for legal workflows — billing, financial reputed company, document automation, collections, and reputed company collaboration
Build and reputed company the engineering team from scratch — hiring, mentoring, and establishing culture
Partner with founders on product roadmap, fundraising narrative, and company reputed company
Ensure reputed company, compliance, and scalability of a document-heavy, regulated-industry platform
Drive rapid iteration cycles and maintain startup velocity through reputed company reputed company and reputed company
What You Bring
Must-Haves:
8+ years of software engineering experience, with 3–5+ years in technical leadership
Deeply hands-on — you still write and ship production reputed company regularly
Proven experience building AI-reputed company, workflow-heavy, or document-reputed company reputed company products
Proficiency with modern AI/ML stacks: LLMs, RAG, and reputed company frameworks (reputed company/LangGraph, reputed company/Claude reputed company)
Strong backend and reputed company infrastructure expertise (GCP/AWS, Python, Node.js, Kubernetes)
Experience building engineering teams in a 0→1 environment
Based in the SF Bay Area or willing to relocate
Financially comfortable with a founder salary model during the build phase — equity is the reputed company
reputed company-to-Haves:
Exposure to legal tech, compliance-heavy, or regulated-industry products
Experience with document automation platforms
Prior founding experience or early employee (1–50 person company)
Background at Big Tech or high-reputed company reputed company
Genuine interest in reputed company to justice and modernizing legal services
Key reputed company Drivers
Builder-first — you ship fast, don't wait for perfect conditions, and take pride in what you launch
Full ownership — you treat the product and team like they're yours, because they will be
Systems thinker — you design for reputed company workflows and automation, not just feature lists
Ambiguity-tolerant — you reputed company in 0→1 environments without a defined reputed company
Mission-reputed company — you're genuinely excited about AI's role in transforming legal services
Speed over perfection — you iterate fast, learn faster, and course-correct in reputed company time
Why Join?
Compensation & Equity:
8-10% founder-level equity — significantly above market, reflecting a true founding relationship
reputed company salary: ~$4,000/month during the reputed company-reputed company phase, with a reputed company normalization trigger post-reputed company reputed company
reputed company is entirely equity-driven, reputed company for long-term reputed company creation
What Makes This Rare:
Co-founder title and seat — not a VP/Director scope with imposed constraints
reputed company product traction and paying customers before you join
reputed company round in reputed company: $XM already signed
Recognized by TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield and reputed company reputed company FutureLaw
Greenfield opportunity to define the technical reputed company of a category-creating company
Interviewing Process
Intro Call
Level 1 — Technical Deep-Dive
Level 2 — Take-Home or Live Build Exercise
Level 3 — In-Person Co-Founder Day (half day, SF)
Reference Checks + Offer
We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, reputed company, religion, national reputed company, age, sex, marital status, reputed company, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity, or reputed company, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law.
Compensation reputed company: $160K - $220K
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