Steppost
CTO
SteppostIreland2 hours ago
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Title: Technical Co-Founder / Product Partner (AI + Apps)


Location: Dublin preferred. Remote in EU-friendly time zones OK.

Comp: Founder equity + revenue share. Stipend possible after first paying customers. Clear path to CTO title.

The mission

I am assembling a focused venture studio around a few near-term, high-signal projects. You will be my technical counterpart to scope, build, and iterate quickly with customer feedback.

Near-term build list
  • AI Readiness and Enablement tools for orgs that want productivity gains without the chaos. Think light workflow apps, prompts, policy kits, and reporting dashboards that teams will actually use.
  • Ecommerce and operations integrations that Irish and EU SMEs need. Shopify, WooCommerce, PrestaShop, and Odoo connectors. Practical automations that save time and make money.
  • Live shopping enablement for TikTok Shop and streams. Simple order capture, label generation, and hand-off to fulfillment.
  • Selective nearshoring plays where we pair EU client needs with high quality delivery in cost-efficient markets.


You do not need to be expert in every area. You do need to be strong in a few and able to learn the rest.

What you will own
  • Translate opportunity into a scoped MVP with clear must-haves.
  • Decide the stack, stand up repos, CI, and cloud.
  • Ship v1 in weeks, not months, and instrument usage from day one.
  • Build clean integrations with common tools. Shopify, GA4, Slack, Google Workspace, Odoo, Meta, TikTok.
  • Experiment with LLMs where they are the best tool. Retrieval, function calling, evals, prompt safety, and cost control.
  • Partner on customer discovery, pricing tests, and go-to-market.
  • Recruit and manage contractors as we grow.


What good looks like in 90 days
  • Two tiny but lovable products live with real users.
  • Clear metrics dashboard for adoption, retention, and feedback.
  • A reusable scaffolding so we can ship the next MVP in half the time.
  • At least one paying pilot or signed LOI.
You are great at
  • Rapid prototyping in JS/TS or Python. Bonus for React/Next.js and Node.
  • Shipping on a major cloud. AWS, GCP, or Azure.
  • Data modeling and clean API design.
  • Practical AI. OpenAI or Anthropic, embeddings, vector stores, RAG, evals, guardrails, and cost tracking.
  • Ecommerce and ERP plumbing. Shopify, WooCommerce, PrestaShop, Odoo.
  • Secure auth, role based access, and GDPR aware data choices.
  • Explaining technical tradeoffs to non-technical leaders.
Nice to have
  • Experience with analytics stacks. PostHog, GA4, Mixpanel.
  • Social or live shopping APIs. TikTok, Meta.
  • Automation tools. Make, n8n, Zapier.
  • Basic data viz.
  • Comfort with customer demos and light sales engineering.
How we will work
  • Lightweight weekly sprint. Clear goals, small scope, honest retros.
  • Builder culture. Bias to ship, validate, keep the stack simple.
  • Transparent economics. Equity, revenue share, and milestone-based upside.
How to apply

Send a short note and links:

  1. Your best shipped product or repo, with a sentence on the problem and your role.
  2. One idea from the list above that you would scope into a two-week MVP and how.
  3. Availability and location.
  4. Equity and cash expectations for the first six months.


Email or DM is fine. Portfolio links beat CVs.


Good luck!

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