CTO Co-founder & Investor

Overview

Co-Founder & CTO — SF Bay Area, Seattle or Bengaluru | Hybrid with regular meet ups

Impactis has validated product market fit, building a platform and talent marketplace to support 1M promising students each year with scholarship funding, mentorship, and professional networks — powered by scholarship-giving professionals and companies.

Our product enables individuals and organizations to:

• Create personalized, interactive scholarships in minutes.

• Volunteer through mentorship, awareness sessions, projects, mock interviews, and internships to discover job-ready profiles with evidence of skills and temperament.

• Form communities of professionals aligned by cause, alma mater, or company.

Impactis is being built as a sustainable, self-funded business with angel, mission-driven, and patient capital. VC funding is optional, not a default. Our goal is to build an enduring institution,not to sell quickly.

• Early validation with paying users, corporate pilots (Salesforce, Standard Chartered++), and positive coverage
  (Economic Times, Founders Story++)

• Infrastructure designed for global scalability (multi-currency, multi-country, multi-lingual, engagement platform, payments, accounting & transparency rails).

• Corporate demand for employee volunteering + co-funded scholarships already in pilot.

We’re looking for a second-time builder — someone who has shipped and scaled a consumer or marketplace product before, and is ready for a second run with more ownership.

As Founding CTO & Co-founder
, you will:

• Own architecture, security, and tech roadmap from v1 → scale.

• Direct and orchestrate engineering efforts, including managing hires, interns, and leveraging AI tools.

• Partner with the CEO and Business Co-founder on product strategy, growth, and capital allocation
  .

• Build a lean, high-ownership team and culture.

• Strong full-stack experience (React, Node.js, Type Script, Postgre
  
  SQL, AWS).

• Track record of building & scaling a consumer-facing product.

• Appetite for ambiguity and bias to ship
  .

• Evidence of pursuing hard things relentlessly.

• Builder-first mindset, with the imagination and drive to build an institution, not just an app
  .

• Begin with 20–30% commitment in the first 1–2 months (equity-compensated for time value).

• Transition to full-time after mutual alignment.

• Bring $25-50K as skin-in-the-game capital for shared success.

• Be financially self-sufficient for ~12 months until salaries kick in from revenue or sustainable funding.

• 15% minimum equity
  , flexible upward to ~40% based on milestones, scope, and capital contribution.

• 4-year vesting with 1-year cliff. Part-time months accrue pro-rata vesting.

• Compelling Mission:Make talent development the new social network — a trusted, transparent way for millions to become better while changing lives.

• Timing
  :
  Early traction + validated model = right moment to shape product, culture, and ownership.

• Ownership:True co-founder role, not a hired gun — with significant equity, voice, and upside.

• Balanced Team:You’ll join alongside a Business Co-founder (to be jointly onboarded, focused on growth, partnerships & fundraising) and the CEO for Product and Operations — creating a balanced founding team.

• Flexibility:Hybrid + autonomy, but with the accountability of in-person meetups and aligned incentives.

If you’re a builder on your second run, let’s connect!