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Rufio

Rufio

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London, United KingdomUp to £75k + Equity

Founding CTO at Stealth-stage pet care super-app

Are you a builder ready to move from Senior Engineer to Founding CTO? We are looking for an entrepreneurial leader to build the operating system for the modern pet care industry. This isn't just another consumer app; you'll be architecting a complex ecosystem that combines AI-driven health insights with real-world logistics and professional management tools. If you thrive in high-ownership environments and want to lead a distributed team while staying hands-on with the code, this is your chance to define the technical future of a multi-billion dollar market from day one.

Overview

Role overview

You will lead the entire technology strategy for a category-defining platform that merges a consumer wellbeing app with complex real-world logistics. As a hands-on builder, you will evolve an existing beta into a scalable ecosystem, leveraging AI to automate workflows and surface predictive health insights for pet owners and professionals.

Company

Rufio

Rufio

London, United Kingdom

Stealth-stage pet care super-app building a 360° digital ecosystem and logistics layer

Responsibilities

What you will do

  • Lead the architecture and development of a two-sided marketplace involving complex bookings, payments, and real-time messaging for pet professionals.
  • Build a sophisticated logistics engine to manage real-world service capacity, including routing and utilization for in-house walkers, trainers, and transport.
  • Manage and mentor a distributed development team while remaining hands-on in the codebase to ship features and scale technical operations rapidly.

Candidate profile

Who this is a fit for

  • A senior engineer or Head of Engineering with a proven track record of shipping end-to-end products and a desire to step into a founding role.
  • Proficient in full-stack architecture and excited by "messy" real-world operational problems rather than just clean, isolated SaaS environments.
  • Highly efficient with modern AI builder tools and capable of managing a bilingual environment (fluent English required, Spanish is a plus for team management).

What makes it remarkable

Why this role is remarkable

  • You are building the "Operating System" for the fragmented pet care industry, designing both the digital interface and the real-world operational infrastructure it controls.
  • This is a high-leverage 0→1 founding role where you will set the technical culture and leverage deep AI integration to move faster than traditional incumbents.
  • You will transition from a reactive model to a data-driven, preventative pet care system, turning health signals into personalized, actionable wellness plans for a global market.

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