Co-Founder CTO

We're looking for a CTO and Technical Co‑Founder to build and lead the technical vision for Data Angel – a B2B platform for consent management that gives people the right to own, manage, license, and monetize their data with full traceability across web, mobile, and API integrations.

You'll:

• Architect and build an API‑first platform (Stripe‑like developer experience) for consent, data licensing, and traceable data flows.
• Start part‑time during the current investment phase, then move to full‑time post‑funding.
• Be a true co‑founder of Data Angel (equity + leadership, not just an employee inside Mindshift).
• Engage directly with investors and potential partners on all technical aspects of the business.

• Build and lead the engineering culture and team from the ground up.

• About Data Angel

Data Angel's mission:

Give people the right to own, manage, license, and monetize their data — with full traceability across web, mobile, and API integrations.

Core value propositions:

• See everything: Track web cookies, SDK beacons, app traffic, and API data flows.
• Control by purpose: Approve, deny, or time‑box data use with one click.
• Monetize and tokenize ethically: Issue data licenses (not data sales) with clear terms, revocation, and revenue share.
• Proof & audit: Tamper‑evident consent receipts and access logs.
• Easy integrations: Developer‑friendly SDKs and APIs for third parties; a marketplace for data license requests.

You will be the technical owner of making this real.

1. Key ResponsibilitiesTechnical Leadership & Architecture

2. Define and own the overall technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for Data Angel.

3. Design and build a robust, secure, multi‑tenant API platform with a Stripe‑like developer experience (clean REST/GraphQL APIs, strong docs, webhooks, sandbox environments).
4. Architect systems for:
5. Data inventory & lineage across web, mobile, and backend systems.
6. Consent and purpose‑based access control.
7. Data license management (issuance, revocation, versioning, revenue flows).
8. Cryptographically verifiable receipts and tamper‑evident logs.

Product & Delivery

• Work closely with the business/product founder(s) to translate the Data Angel vision into a scoped MVP and iterative product releases.
• Make pragmatic build‑vs‑buy decisions (e.g. infrastructure, auth, logging, observability).
• Ship fast with quality: set up CI/CD, testing practices, monitoring, and incident response from day one.

Investor & Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as the technical face of the company in investor meetings:
• Explain architecture, scalability, security, and defensibility clearly and confidently.
• Support due diligence and technical Q&A with investors and enterprise customers.
• Contribute to pitch materials, technical roadmaps, and budgets for fundraising.

Team Building & Culture

• Initially be hands‑on (coding, architecture, ops), then recruit and lead a small, high‑calibre engineering team as funding and traction grow.
• Establish an engineering culture of:
• Ownership & accountability
• High code quality and security
• Clear documentation and developer‑first thinking

• Ethical handling of data

• Ideal Profile

• Experience:

• 5–10+ years in software engineering, with significant exposure to API‑centric products.
• Proven experience designing and building production‑grade APIs and developer platforms (Stripe‑like is a big plus).
• Prior experience in early‑stage startups, or being first/early engineer, tech lead, or founding engineer is highly desirable.
• Technical Skills: (We're flexible on exact stack, but you should have depth in most of the below)
• Strong backend experience in one or more of: , Python, Go, Ruby, Java, or similar.
• Practical experience with REST/GraphQL APIs, webhooks, OAuth2/OIDC, API keys, rate‑limiting, and versioning.
• Expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and modern infrastructure (containers, Kubernetes or serverless, Terraform, etc.).
• Solid grounding in security, privacy, and compliance best practices (encryption, key management, RBAC, logging, data residency).
• Experience with databases (SQL + NoSQL) and event‑driven architectures (queues, streams) is a plus.
• Comfortable setting up CI/CD, observability (logs, metrics, traces), and basic DevOps.
• Domain Interest:
• Strong interest in data rights, privacy, consent, and ethical data monetization.
• Bonus if you've worked in fintech, data platforms, regtech, or privacy‑tech.
• Personal Attributes:
• Founder mindset: You think in terms of outcomes, ownership, and long‑term value, not just tickets.
• Hands‑on and scrappy: Happy to code, experiment, and iterate under uncertainty.
• Clear communicator: Can explain complex technical topics simply to non‑technical stakeholders and investors.
• Passionate leader: You care deeply about building something meaningful and about the people you build it with.

• Comfortable with risk, ambiguity, and a steep ramp‑up in responsibility and workload as the company grows.

• Commitment, Structure & Compensation

• Phase 1 – Pre‑Funding / Deal Close

• Part‑time commitment (flexible hours), working closely with Mindshift and the founding team to:
• Finalize architecture and MVP scope.
• Build early prototypes and proofs of concept.
• Support technical due diligence for the current investment round.
• Phase 2 – Post‑Funding
• Transition to full‑time CTO & Co‑Founder of Data Angel.
• Formalize team structure and start hiring.
• Drive execution on the roadmap and early customer integrations.
• Compensation
• Equity as a Co‑Founder in Data Angel (significant ownership stake, not token).
• Cash compensation ramps up post‑funding; modest or minimal cash initially, to be agreed based on circumstances.

• Exact terms (equity %, vesting, salary) to be discussed individually.

• Reporting & Collaboration

• You will work closely with the founder(s) of Data Angel and the leadership team of Mindshift, the consulting company within which Data Angel is being incubated.

• Day‑to‑day you'll collaborate with product, design, and business development to align market needs with technical execution.

• How to Apply / Express Interest

If this sounds like you:

• Share your LinkedIn/GitHub or portfolio, info-
• A short note on your experience with building APIs or platforms developers love, and
• A few lines on why data ownership and ethical data monetization matter to you.

For companies: Data Angel is a lightweight consent & data‑usage ledger with a clean API that replaces heavy, legacy compliance tooling.

For people: it shows up as one "Data Angel" that lets them see and control how those companies use their data.

We are in Seed Funding Stage, and need a CTO to assist with the MVP for investors meeting. Therefor the Co-Founder position available. Remuneration would be discussed once the funding is secured.