CTO & Co-founder in UNITED KINGDOM

CTO & Co-founder - Up to 20% Equity Offered

London Based 🇬🇧 | Fully Remote | Flexible (Part Time or Full Time)

Significant Acquisition Opportunity 💸 | Creative Autonomy 🎨 | Build for Millions 🚀

About Murmur

We are on a mission to become the world’s foremost anonymous and exclusive social network. A platform where freedom of speech can flourish within established communities - specifically targeting universities and large tech companies. By restricting access to email domains, we are able to create an unfiltered yet safe space for existing communities, with self moderation driven by official email addresses tied to user accounts.

Although anyone can be anonymous on Facebook or X with a random email and fake name, and anyone can share with their community on internal tools at work or in university networks, the magic lies in combining both. True anonymity within the exclusivity of domain restricted communities. This synergy creates a powerful foundation for network effects to scale rapidly, driving deeper engagement and a compelling user experience unlike anything else on the market today.

Our MVP is built, however, it is not yet live as we need to finalise a few technical tweaks. We have a founding team of two core members:

• CEO – Leading investment, hiring, and overall product direction.
• CMO – Driving growth, marketing, and our waitlist buzz and user acquisition strategy.

Now, we’re looking for a third Co-founder to take ownership of all things technical and join us on our journey toward a top accelerator (e.g., YC, Sequoia Arc), a seed round, and ultimately 1 million users - with a goal for acquisition within 24 months. This is a rare opportunity to build a product that could be used by millions, scale a team from the ground up, and achieve a significant financial exit as a Co-founder.

Our Strategy

We’re taking inspiration from three notable case studies of network effects:

1. YikYak - Harness the power of anonymity to fuel vibrant, unfiltered content.
2. Facebook - Drive exclusivity via domain based memberships, rolling out university by university.
3. Gas App - Use creative marketing tactics (waitlists, social media targeting, etc.) to prime each community before launch, ensuring excitement and rapid adoption.

Opportunity & Vision

• Equity: Up to 20% depending on experience, reflecting the pivotal nature of this role.
• Unpaid: This opportunity is unpaid, hence the equity offered. You will be an owner of the business and we will work together to acquire funding to cover founding team salaries if and when we transition to full time.
• Flexible Engagement: Part time (working around a full time job) or full time if available.
• Massive Scale: We’re targeting explosive growth via network effects, driven by domain restricted communities.
• Exit Path: We plan to join a leading accelerator, secure a seed round, and explore acquisition opportunities within 24 months, offering a unique opportunity for significant financial exit.

Role Overview

As CTO, you will take full ownership of Murmur’s technical strategy and product roadmap. You’ll be the architect shaping our platform, from refining the MVP for scale to guiding future innovations in web, iOS, and Android.

Responsibilities

1. Technical Strategy & Architecture

• Optimise and scale our MVP, ensuring reliability, performance, and security.
• Lead the technical vision for cross platform (web, iOS, Android) product development.

1. Admin Development

• Build a robust admin portal to manage domain based communities and user moderation.
• Implement analytics and oversight tools to keep communities both safe and engaged.

1. Leadership

• Collaborate closely with the CEO and CMO on product vision and GTM strategies.
• Grow an engineering team post funding.

1. Innovation & Growth

• Experiment with emerging tech and growth hacks to drive viral adoption.
• Leverage data to continuously refine user experience and retention strategies.

Minimum Qualifications

• 3+ years of full stack engineering experience.
• Proven track record leading or building software products from prototype to production.
• Familiarity with scalable architecture, user privacy, and security in consumer facing platforms.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to iterate quickly in a fast paced environment.
• Experience building iOS or Android mobile applications.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working on social networking products with significant user numbers.
• Prior involvement in accelerator or early stage startup environments.

Ready to Join?

Our mission is simple. Stay focused on the unique combination of anonymity and exclusivity. Emulate winning playbooks for rapid scale through network effects. Achieve an exit within 24 months. This will be a fun and exciting experience for anyone with entrepreneurial ambition.

If this sounds interesting to you, let's chat!