Toogeza
CTO
Europe. Posted 6 months ago
The role
The CTO will own the product engineering vertical for an AI-native consumer mobile company. This person will lead an existing team of 6 engineers and manage the technical strategy, production product, and unit economics.
What you will do
- Full technical ownership of the live iOS app and the Android launch
- Manage the current engineering team of 6 people
- Targeted hiring of 1–2 people over 6 months
- Migrate tasks from backend to device to improve unit economics
- Optimize GPU inference and server-side video pipeline
- Manage cost for third-party AI APIs
- Evolve the product's agentic architecture and memory system
- Translate company strategy into a roadmap
- Prepare for tech due diligence for the next round
- Act as a direct partner to the founder on product and business decisions
Required qualifications
- CTO / VP Engineering / Head of Engineering experience in a consumer mobile subscription company
- Experience leading a team of 10+ engineers
- Production video/photo stack experience with Core Image, Metal, OpenGL ES / Vulkan, AVFoundation, MediaCodec
- Experience migrating workloads from backend to device with measurable unit-economics impact
- Subscription growth experience including paywall optimization, MMP attribution, post-ATT/SKAN, and LTV-driven decisions
- Agentic AI / LLMs in production experience including memory, tools, and eval loops
- Hands-on experience with voice stacks (ASR/TTS, real-time voice agents)
- Management maturity in hiring, performance reviews, budgeting, and cost-aware decisions
Nice to have
- Experience in companies of 30+ people
- Production launch experience with an auto-edit video or voice-controlled app
- Proprietary ML models in production including fine-tuning, on-device CoreML/TFLite, or model distillation
- Experience optimizing third-party AI API cost and latency through hybridization and in-house replacements
Before you apply
- Review of CV and additional materials within five working days
About the company
toogeza is a Ukrainian recruiting company focused on hiring talents and building teams for tech startups worldwide. The client is an AI-native consumer mobile company with a subscription monetization model.