Company: Dina.help
Role: CTO (Full-time)
Location: India / Remote (preferred overlap with IST)
Experience: 815+ years (startup/product engineering leadership preferred)
About Dina.help
Dina.help is building an AI-first, always-on digital workforce for modern businessesautomating sales, support, operations, and customer engagement across channels like WhatsApp, Web, Social, Voice, etc. We're product-driven, execution-heavy, and obsessed with shipping fast.
We're looking for a CTO who can build and scale the entire engineering org, while personally being capable of high-speed vibe-coding prototypes into production-grade systems.
Important Note (Read This First)
This is a pre-funding role. There will be no salary until funding is secured.
The CTO will receive meaningful equity/ESOP, founder-level ownership, and will lead all technology decisions from day one.
If you are looking for a fixed salary from the beginning, this role is not a fit.
What You'll Own
As CTO, you will be the technical founder-level leader responsible for:
1) Product & Engineering Leadership
- Define and execute Dina.help's technical vision, platform strategy, and architecture
- Build an AI-native product platform for automations + agent workflows
- Partner with founders on product direction, prioritization, and roadmap
2) Vibe-Coding + Rapid Prototyping (Must-have)
We want someone who can:
- Rapidly turn idea prototype MVP v1 product
- Use AI coding tools like:
- Cursor, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Copilot
- Prompt-based architecture planning
- Test generation via AI agents
- Build quickly without sacrificing engineering fundamentals
You must be able to vibe-code at speed, then convert it into scalable, maintainable systems.3) Architecture & Scaling
- Design scalable systems: multi-tenant SaaS, auth, billing, RBAC
- Build infrastructure for:
- high throughput messaging (WhatsApp, Webhooks)
- async jobs / workflows
- observability and incident management
- Ensure performance, reliability, and security from day one
4) AI/LLM Platform Ownership
- Build Dina's AI layer:
- agent orchestration (LangChain/LangGraph/crew-style systems)
- memory + retrieval (RAG)
- tool calling / workflow execution
- evaluation, prompt testing, regression prevention
- Integrate model providers:
- OpenAI / Anthropic / Llama models
- cost controls + fallbacks + routing
- Build AI safety + guardrails for enterprise-grade reliability
5) Hiring + Team Building
- Hire & manage engineering team (full-stack, backend, AI engineers, QA)
- Build an execution-focused engineering culture:
- speed + ownership + quality
- strong code review and delivery standards
- measurable release cadence
Tech Stack (Preferred)
We're open to your choices, but we value practicality.
Backend: Node.js / Python / Go
Frontend: React / Next.js
Infra: AWS/GCP, Docker, Kubernetes (optional), serverless ok
DB: PostgreSQL, Redis, Vector DB (Pinecone/Weaviate/pgvector)
AI: LangChain/LangGraph, OpenAI/Anthropic, eval tooling
Messaging: WhatsApp APIs (Evolution API / Meta), Webhooks
CI/CD: GitHub Actions, monitoring/logging stacks
RequirementsMust-have
- 815+ years in software engineering, including leadership
- Built at least one production SaaS product end-to-end
- Strong system design + backend fundamentals
- Experience shipping AI/LLM-based product features
- Strong hands-on ability: you can code
- Vibe-coding excellence: rapid prototyping with AI tools + clean execution
Good-to-have
- Startup CTO / Founding Engineer background
- Experience building WhatsApp automation / engagement platforms
- Payments, subscription billing, admin dashboards experience
- Security + privacy (especially for customer messaging systems)
What Success Looks Like (First 90 Days)
- Clear platform architecture + delivery plan
- AI workflow engine / automation foundation in production
- Core integrations stable (WhatsApp/webhook/CRM if required)
- Fast product releases (weekly cadence)
- Initial engineering team hired + operating rhythm in place
Compensation
- No salary before funding (pre-funding stage)
- Significant equity/ESOP
- Growth into partner/founder-level responsibilities as Dina scales
