CTO & Co-Founder @ Pre-Seed AI Infrastructure Venture, Berlin
atlantic.vc
Job Description
<p><em><span style="color:#000000">This is an Atlantic portfolio venture. </span></em></p><p style="min-height: 1.7em;"></p><p><strong><span style="color:#000000">About the Venture</span></strong></p><p><span style="color:#000000">We are building AI infrastructure, with pre-seed funding secured, early customer demand and a product already in production.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000">We are now looking for a CTO & Co-Founder to shape the company and its technology, scale the product and build the engineering organisation.</span></p><p style="min-height: 1.7em;"></p><p><strong><span style="color:#000000">About the Role</span></strong></p><p><span style="color:#000000">As </span><strong><span style="color:#000000">CTO & Co-Founder,</span></strong><span style="color:#000000"> you will own the technical direction of the company and the team that delivers it. You will lead an existing team of 3 engineers, grow it and set the standards for how it works.<br></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000">We are building an AI-native engineering team from day one, with agentic engineering at the centre of how we write, review and ship code. Coding agents are not an add-on, but the default way we build software.<br></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000">This is a hands-on leadership role. You will stay close to the code while making the technical and organisational decisions that shape the company as it grows.</span></p><p style="min-height: 1.7em;"></p><p><strong><span style="color:#000000">What You'll Do</span></strong></p><ul><li><p><span style="color:#000000">Lead and develop our existing team of 3 engineers, set high engineering standards and take ownership of what the team ships</span></p></li><li><p><span style="color:#000000">Own technical hiring and build the engineering organisation as the company grows</span></p></li><li><p><span style="color:#000000">Set the technical direction, from architecture and roadmap to build-vs-buy decisions</span></p></li><li><p><span style="color:#000000">Scale and operate reliable AI infrastructure, including APIs, cloud infrastructure, security, GDPR and European data residency</span></p></li><li><p><span style="color:#000000">Stay hands-on, writing code and contributing directly to our core systems</span></p></li><li><p><span style="color:#000000">Build an AI-native engineering culture where coding agents such as Claude Code are central to how the team develops, reviews and ships software</span></p></li><li><p><span style="color:#000000">Design and continuously improve our agentic engineering setup, from harnesses and workflows to orchestrating multiple agents in parallel, evaluating their output and benchmarking what works</span></p></li><li><p><span style="color:#000000">Represent the company technically with customers, in security reviews and in investor conversations<br></span></p></li></ul><p><strong><span style="color:#000000">About You</span></strong></p><p><span style="color:#000000">You ar
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