Founding CTO, AI Legal Tech (SF Bay Area) at Lavendo | chakrie

Requirements

Must-Haves:

8+ years of software engineering experience, with 3–5+ years in technical leadership
Deeply hands-on — you still write and ship production code regularly
Proven experience building AI-native, workflow-heavy, or document-centric SaaS products
Proficiency with modern AI/ML stacks: LLMs, RAG, and agentic frameworks (LangChain/LangGraph, OpenAI/Claude APIs)
Strong backend and cloud 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 upside

Nice-to-Haves:

Key Success 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 agentic workflows and automation, not just feature lists
Ambiguity-tolerant — you thrive in 0→1 environments without a defined playbook
Mission-aligned — you're genuinely excited about AI's role in transforming legal services
Speed over perfection — you iterate fast, learn faster, and course-correct in real time

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