Technical Co-Founder CTO – Pet Health AI @ KOBIL Ventures
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We’re a corporate venture studio spinning out an AI-powered canine health companion app, helping pet parents extend healthy lifespan through behavior protocols, nutrition tracking, smart reminders and seamless access to cost-effective care services.
The Role
As the Technical Co-Founder and CTO – Pet Health AI, you will join an agile startup team, working closely with the CEO and a nearshore engineering team to lead full stack development for our mobile app, AI engine and scale our current MVP.
- Own product architecture end-to-end across Web, Mobile, APIs, data/ML and infrastructure.
- Scale the MVP behavioral health protocol with onboarding, health score, risk insights, AI nudges and progress tracking.
- Stand up AI/ML pipelines for scoring, personalization and recommendations with feedback loops.
- Integrate third-party services with privacy-first design.
- Build CI/CD, testing, observability, security and PHI/PII handling foundations.
- Recruit and lead a senior-leaning team and select world-class vendors.
- Partner with the CEO on strategy, roadmap, milestones, fundraising and GTM, and present to investors and advisors.
What You’ll Bring
Being a pet parent with a history of canine ownership is a huge plus. You need 5+ years building and scaling consumer/mobile or AI native products with 0→1 ownership experience, full stack development skills across web and mobile, and practical experience with LLM applications and data pipelines. A strong product sense, taste for clean architecture, fast iteration and excellent communication skills are required.
Nice to Have
Experience in the pet care/health-tech industry, building recommender systems, personalization, or reinforcement learning for user habits. Experience designing closed-loop outcomes for engagement to measurable health results is a bonus.
Compensation
Base Pay plus Co-Founder Equity in a funded, high growth startup with massive TAM.
Key skills/competency
- Full Stack Development
- AI/ML Pipelines
- Architecture
- Mobile Development
- API Integration
- CI/CD
- Team Leadership
- Product Strategy
- Data Pipelines
- Privacy-first Design
How to Get Hired at KOBIL Ventures
🎯 Tips for Getting Hired
- Customize your resume: Highlight full stack and AI experience.
- Research KOBIL Ventures: Understand their startup model and vision.
- Showcase pet care passion: Emphasize pet-related background.
- Prepare technical portfolio: Demonstrate architecture and ML projects.
- Practice interview responses: Focus on leadership and strategy skills.