CTO (Chief Technology Officer)

We are toogeza, a Ukrainian recruiting company that is focused on hiring talents and building teams for tech startups worldwide. People make a difference in the big game, we may help to find the right ones.

Currently, we are looking for a CTO to join one of Toogeza’s clients.

About the company

We are a fast-growing product company building an AI-native consumer mobile application within the subscription business model.

The product combines mobile technology, AI/LLM capabilities, multimedia processing, and growth infrastructure to deliver a highly engaging consumer experience at scale.

The company is currently in an active scaling phase: a live product is already on the market, with expansion across platforms, further product maturity, and optimization of both technical architecture and unit economics as key priorities.

This is a leadership role for someone who can combine hands-on technical depth with product and business ownership.

Current technical landscape

The product operates on a hybrid architecture combining cloud-based AI processing with on-device execution for performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.

A key strategic focus for this role will be evolving the architecture toward a more cost-efficient and performant distribution of workloads, including increasing on-device intelligence where commercially and technically justified.

The product also relies on third-party AI infrastructure across conversational AI, speech processing, and generative workflows. A key part of the CTO’s mandate will be evaluating vendor trade-offs, reducing dependency where appropriate, and shaping a sustainable long-term architecture.

The AI layer includes agent-based orchestration, memory/retrieval systems, and personalized decision-making pipelines built on multimodal user context. The CTO will help evolve this architecture toward greater reliability, quality control, and scalability in production.

The opportunity

We are looking for a CTO to take ownership of the engineering function and technical strategy during the next stage of growth.

This role requires a rare combination of expertise across:

• consumer mobile product engineering
• multimedia / video processing
• AI / LLM-based product systems
• subscription growth infrastructure
• engineering leadership and operational scaling

This is not a “people manager only” role, and not a pure architecture oversight position.

We need someone who can make pragmatic technical decisions, lead engineers effectively, and directly influence product quality, speed, and business performance.

What you will own

Product engineering ownership

• Full ownership of the consumer mobile product across current and upcoming platforms
• Product stability, technical quality, performance, and release execution
• Close partnership with product and business leadership on roadmap execution

AI & agentic systems

• Evolution of production AI architecture, including agent orchestration, memory systems, retrieval pipelines, and evaluation frameworks
• Optimization of LLM-based workflows for quality, latency, and cost
• Voice / conversational AI architecture and infrastructure

Multimedia / mobile technical architecture

• Ownership of mobile multimedia architecture and processing pipelines
• Video rendering / editing / media pipeline architecture
• Strategic decisions around server-side vs on-device execution
• Performance optimization across mobile device classes

Unit economics & technical efficiency

• Infrastructure cost optimization
• AI API usage strategy and vendor trade-offs
• Workload distribution decisions aimed at improving unit economics and scalability
• Cost-aware architectural planning

Engineering leadership

• Leading and developing an existing engineering team
• Selective hiring to strengthen critical capability areas
• Performance management, technical mentorship, and engineering culture
• Building scalable but stage-appropriate engineering processes

Growth & monetization infrastructure

• Subscription monetization systems
• Attribution / performance marketing integrations
• Experimentation infrastructure
• Analytics infrastructure supporting retention, monetization, and LTV optimization

Strategic leadership

• Translating business priorities into technical execution
• Partnering closely with founder / executive leadership
• Preparing the engineering organization for scale and future technical due diligence

Who we are looking for

Must have

• CTO / VP Engineering / Head of Engineering experience in a consumer mobile subscription business
• Proven leadership of engineering teams at scale
• Deep hands-on experience with production multimedia / video / imaging stacks in mobile environments
• Experience optimizing architecture between cloud and on-device execution, with measurable business impact
• Strong subscription product growth infrastructure experience (paywalls, attribution, experimentation, LTV/ROAS-driven decisions)
• Hands-on experience building production AI / LLM systems, including agent orchestration, memory, tooling, and evaluation
• Experience with voice / conversational AI infrastructure
• Strong engineering leadership maturity: hiring, performance management, budgeting, technical strategy, business orientation

Strong plus

• Experience in AI-powered consumer media / creator / editing products
• Production ML deployment experience (including on-device inference)
• Experience optimizing third-party AI infrastructure cost and latency
• Experience across both iOS and Android ecosystems

What’s next?
If this role sounds like a fit — we’d love to hear from you! Just send over your CV and anything else you’d like us to consider.

We’ll review everything within five working days, and if your background matches what we’re looking for, we’ll get in touch to set up a call and get to know each other better.

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