Founding Technical Lead / CTO

Nubovault

• is an ambitious, next-generation cloud management and optimization platform.
• Our mission is to centralize a user’s entire fragmented digital footprint—including cloud storage providers (Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox), local devices, and address books—into a single, passwordless, unified dashboard.
• We have successfully built a comprehensive
• 82-page, clickable visual prototype
• that validates our concept and user experience.
• Now, we are preparing for our strict Q3/Q4 sprint to transition this prototype into an elite, production-ready Minimum Viable Product (MVP).
• Because NuboVault sells foundational digital trust (zero-knowledge architecture and passwordless security), we are hiring our founding engineering leader to architect the technical bedrock of the global platform before scaling the core team.
• **Location:**

On-site (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)

• **Role Type:**

Full-Time (Founding Executive Team)

• **Reporting To:**

The Mandate: Your First 30 Days

• You will not be dropped straight into a vacuum of writing random feature code.
• You are being brought in to hold total technical accountability, de-risk the build, and establish absolute technical truth for the venture.
• Your first month is governed by a strict, week-by-week architectural roadmap:
• **Week 1 (Ground Truth):**
• Audit the 82-page interactive prototype.
• Map the necessary API integrations, rate limits, and authentication flows for our initial target cloud providers.
• Build a transparent register pinpointing our top 5 technical risks.
• **Week 2 (The Security Blueprint):**
• Define and document our core encryption, zero-knowledge mechanics, and key-management model.
• Finalize our build-vs-buy decisions for infrastructure and map out our independent, pre-launch external security audit.
• **Week 3 (Team Topography & Backlog):**
• Ruthlessly cut the prototype down to a lean MVP backlog.
• Advise the founder on exact staffing needs—leveraging modern AI-accelerated workflows to determine if we truly need our projected 3-developer team, or a leaner, hyper-optimized alternative.
• **Week 4 (The Vertical Slice):**
• Deliver a functioning, thin end-to-end code slice (e.g., connecting a single provider, indexing metadata, and securely displaying records) to prove your chosen architecture functions flawlessly in production.
• Present your final cost/burn analysis to align with our upcoming pre-seed capital raise.

Core Responsibilities & Expertise Needed

• **Security & Encryption Architecture:**
• Deep, practical expertise implementing secure token-handling pipelines, OAuth 2.0 protocols at scale, and zero-knowledge encryption patterns (AES-256, TLS 1.3).
• You must know how to build a passwordless authentication loop that is ironclad yet user-friendly.
• **Data Structure Optimization:**
• Ability to design background multi-threaded parsing tools and high-performance, hash-based deduplication engines capable of scanning thousands of cloud and local device directories securely without lag.
• **Engineering Leadership & Interviewing:**
• You will establish our internal coding standards, repo policies, and automated deployment pipelines.
• You will actively lead the technical screening, testing, and interviewing workflows for the full-stack and mobile engineers we onboard post-Month 1.
• **AI-Augmented Velocity Control:**
• Deep comfort using AI development agents to maximize velocity, combined with the unyielding commitment that
• *no*
• security-critical or data-handling code ships without rigorous, senior human review.

Capabilities & Credentials

• **Experience:**
• 5+ years of software engineering experience, preferably having served as a Tech Lead, Principal Engineer, or Founding Developer at a high-growth SaaS startup, cybersecurity company, or VC-backed venture.
• **The Tech Stack:**
• We value architectural wisdom over specific syntax loyalty.
• In your first 2 weeks, you will make the official call on our core stack.
• You should have a proven track record deploying highly scalable backends (e.g., Node.js, Go, or Python) paired with robust, modern frontends and database structures.
• **Mindset:**
• Radical candor and engineering integrity.
• We value early bad news over hidden defects.
• You must be comfortable translating complex engineering compromises into clear business choices for a non-technical founder.

What We Offer (Compensation & Esop)

• We are moving with extreme discipline to optimize our capital runway before closing our institutional pre-seed investment round.
• We compensate our founding team with elite equity upside.
• **Monthly Stipend/Salary:**
• Fixed monthly retainer/stipend tailored to your location and seniority level, designed to comfortably support you through our pre-seed phase.
• **Executive ESOP Allocation:**

Generous Founding Team Equity Allocation (