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Technical Co-founder — Enterprise AI & Financial Controls

Company Description

ValueGuard is an early-stage enterprise AI platform building a new layer of post-signature commercial control.

We help companies turn contractual obligations into verifiable economic controls — comparing what should have happened under agreed commercial terms with actual transactions, identifying monetary discrepancies, and producing evidence-backed results for human review.

Our approach combines contract intelligence, deterministic financial calculations, and governed AI. We work alongside existing ERP, finance, procurement, and contract-management systems rather than replacing them.

We have a working prototype and are progressing toward enterprise discovery and pilot validation.

Role Description

We're looking for a hands-on Technical Co-founder to lead ValueGuard's technical development and help build the company from its early stages.

This is not a conventional management-only CTO position. We're looking for someone who enjoys solving complex engineering problems, writing and reviewing code, making architectural decisions, and taking end-to-end ownership of delivery.

You'll work closely with the founder on product strategy, technical priorities, and the transition from prototype to enterprise-ready pilots.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the platform architecture, backend systems, data models, APIs, and technical roadmap.
• Build reliable document-processing and AI-assisted workflows with traceable evidence and reproducible financial calculations.
• Design secure enterprise infrastructure, including access controls, data isolation, auditability, and deployment options.
• Develop integrations with ERP, financial, procurement, and other enterprise systems.
• Lead technical discovery and solution validation with prospective enterprise customers.
• Establish engineering standards, automated testing, AI-assisted development practices, and operational reliability.
• Help recruit and lead the engineering team as ValueGuard grows.
• Contribute to technical due diligence, enterprise security discussions, and fundraising.

Qualifications

• Ideally 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including hands-on ownership of complex production systems. Exceptional candidates with shorter but highly relevant experience are welcome.
• Strong backend/platform engineering skills, preferably Python and modern API architectures. Experience with TypeScript, Go, or similar technologies is valuable.
• Solid understanding of databases, data modeling, asynchronous processing, and distributed systems.
• Practical experience with enterprise security, authentication and authorization, encryption, audit logging, and secure infrastructure.
• Experience building reliable data pipelines, document-processing systems, and production AI/LLM workflows.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, containerization, CI/CD, monitoring, and secure deployment practices.
• Ability to translate complex business requirements into pragmatic technical solutions.
• Strong problem-solving skills, engineering judgment, ownership mentality, and the ambition to build a company.
• Fluent English is required. Russian is a plus, not a requirement.

Strong Advantages

• Hands-on experience integrating with enterprise ERP and financial systems such as SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics 365, or similar platforms.
• Experience with B2B SaaS, fintech, procurement technology, contract intelligence, or enterprise financial controls.
• Experience designing secure private-cloud, on-premises, or hybrid enterprise deployments.
• Previous experience as a founding engineer, technical lead, or early-stage startup builder.

Location & Opportunity

ValueGuard is based in Baku, Azerbaijan, and we're open to discussing suitable collaboration arrangements with international candidates.

This is an early-stage technical co-founder opportunity, with the long-term commitment, responsibilities, compensation, and potential equity structure to be discussed individually.

We're looking for someone who wants to build a company, not just software.

If this sounds like you, we'd love to connect.