Fractional Cto (Hyderabad)

Founding CTO Saraathi AI Private Limited | India (Remote-friendly) | Founding Team About Saraathi Everyone needs someone to talk to yet millions of Indians have no one they can open up to without judgment. is an anonymous, AI-matched peer-support platform for emotional wellness, built for India. We connect people going through life's everyday challenges work stress, relationships, exam pressure, big life transitions with trained peer listeners who've lived through the same, in their own language. We are an early-stage, incorporated startup with our product design and frontend complete (), a Startup India Seed Fund application in advanced review, and a focused 6-month roadmap to our first users and revenue. The Role We're looking for a Founding CTO to own everything technical, from architecture to launch to scale. The backend is greenfield you choose the stack, set the engineering culture, and build the systems that make anonymous peer support protected, multilingual, and genuinely helpful. You'll work directly with the founder as a true partner: product and growth on one side, technology on the other. This is a founding-team position with meaningful equity, and full ownership of the technical vision. What You'll Own Platform architecture & backend design and build the core platform end-to-end: APIs, data model, real-time chat infrastructure, deployment, and observability AI matching engine the listenerseeker matching system that pairs people by language, life context, and emotional need Trust & safety systems anonymity by design, content moderation, and reliable escalation pathways for conversations that need more than a peer; this is the most important system in the product Multilingual experience support across 11 Indian languages, including Hinglish and code-mixed conversation Scale & cost discipline take us from prototype to our first 10,000 users on a lean, grant-funded budget Team building hire and lead the first engineers as we grow What We're Loo .