Chief Technology Officer
Hybrid (San Francisco, CA)$200k - $250kFull-timePosted 1w ago
About the role
CTO role at Bloomy, an AI-native learning platform for K-12. Owns technology strategy, leads engineering, and shapes product direction with the founder.
Responsibilities
- Technical direction and architecture. Make decisions across the application, infrastructure, data systems, and AI capabilities. Decide what needs investment now and what can wait, balancing product needs, reliability, cost, and speed.
- Product development. Build features across the student experience, teacher tools, assessments, and curriculum systems. Work with the founder to set priorities and take responsibility for delivering them.
- AI engineering workflows. Improve how we use agents to develop software and produce curriculum. Build the specifications, evaluation systems, testing, and review practices that make their output dependable.
- Learning and product intelligence. Connect student responses, tutoring interactions, and assessment results to improvements in instruction. Build the data infrastructure to understand where students struggle and evaluate whether changes help them learn.
- Production quality and trust. Own reliability, performance, security, and student data protection. Make Bloomy work well on school devices and networks, and establish practical monitoring and incident response.
- Engineering hiring and leadership. Work with the founder on hiring priorities, recruit strong engineers, and set clear standards for technical work. Build a team that takes responsibility for what it ships and stays close to users.
- Understanding classrooms. Spend time with teachers, students, and district partners. Turn their feedback into product decisions, including practical improvements to rostering, implementation, and everyday usability.
Qualifications
- Strong engineering depth and recent experience shipping across the full stack.
- Experience owning technical decisions for a product, including architecture, delivery, and production operations.
- Substantial experience using AI coding tools, with the judgment to inspect their work, catch mistakes, and improve the systems around them.
- Experience building with LLMs in production, including evaluation, failure handling, and tradeoffs between quality, latency, and cost.
- Evidence that you can lead engineers, whether through hiring, managing, mentoring, or leading a significant technical effort.
- Strong product judgment and the ability to turn an ambiguous problem into a useful, well-built solution.
- Willingness to handle the details that make software work in schools, from roster imports to performance on older devices.
- A serious interest in improving student learning and measuring whether the product does so.
Skills
Required:Full-stack engineeringTechnical leadershipAI in production
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Bloomy
AI-powered mastery learning for K-12
Bloomy helps students learn more efficiently by using AI to identify exactly what a student should learn and when they should learn it. We provide adaptive and personalized curriculum to K-12, starting with English Language Arts, Math, and Writing.
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