About the role
CTO role at Postal, an AI-native virtual address & mailroom for businesses. Lead full-stack development, AI-driven compliance workflows, and technical strategy in a fast-growing YC-backed startup.
Responsibilities
- The full-stack development and maintenance of the Postal platform
- Postal’s overall technical strategy and architecture
- The exercise of technical decision making judgment around security, reliability, scalability, and compliance
- Collaborative execution with product, operations, and compliance
- Technical project planning, prioritization, and delivery timelines
- Improvements to a system that is in production use by hundreds of customers
- New tools that test hypotheses about how AI can be leveraged to solve compliance problems at lower cost and greater speed for American businesses.
Qualifications
- 6+ years of professional software experience
- Prior experience as a senior engineering leader (CTO, VP Engineering, Head of Engineering)
- Strong systems thinking and comfort making high impact architectural decisions
- Highly proficient with both AI dev tools and AI API integration
- Experience owning product features across both backend and frontend technologies
- Extremely strong organization skills
- Extremely strong oral and written communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- A healthy sense of curiosity about AI compliance, mail spaces, and the startup ecosystem
- Previous exposure to early stage startups or fast-paced environments (a plus)
Skills
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity options, aligning your success with the company's growth
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance and a 401k
- Flexible hybrid work culture with in-office days and remote days for focused work
- Ongoing opportunities for learning and skill development to stay at the forefront of the field
About Postal
An AI native virtual address & mailroom for businesses.
Postal offers a modern virtual mailbox for businesses. Postal provides an official address for government, IRS, and vendor communications so companies don't have to use an apartment / shared office address. Postal's AI summarizes mail and recommends compliance actions, and its marketplace of service providers are ready to perform the mundane compliance work that otherwise falls through the cracks. Companies get 6 months free (a $300 value), plus three free hours of compliance services (a $600 value).
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