Technical Co-Founder — Midas

Technical Co-Founder — MidasFull-time | Equity Partnership | No Salary Initially | Remote / Flexible Midas is building an AI-native venture operating system to help founders go from: Idea → Validation → Product → Revenue → Funding We are looking for a full-time Technical Co-Founder to build the company alongside the founder. This is not a traditional engineering job. There is no large team, no hierarchy, no product manager handing you tickets, and no salary initially. This is a true partnership opportunity for someone who wants ownership, autonomy, speed, risk, and the chance to build a real company from the ground up. What we are buildingMidas combines: AI-guided founder journeys expert-trained AI agents called Genies venture diagnostics and evidence tracking fractional executives practical startup education integrations with modern AI and productivity tools revenue and fundraising workflows access to fractional capital over time The goal is to make entrepreneurship more accessible by helping founders figure out what to do next — and increasingly helping them get it done. What you will ownYou will own the technical side of Midas end to end, including: product architecture frontend and backend development AI / LLM integration agent orchestration MCP and external tool integrations databases and persistent venture state authentication and permissions APIs infrastructure security analytics testing deployment technical roadmap product experimentation You will work directly with users and help decide what should be built, not simply how to build it. We need someone who understands both generations of software developmentThe traditional wayYou understand: software architecture databases APIs cloud infrastructure security scalability production reliability testing technical debt how systems break when prototypes become real companies The AI-native wayYou actively use or experiment with tools such as: Claude Code Codex-style workflows Cursor Replit Lovable AI agents MCPs LLM APIs workflow automation rapid prototyping AI-assisted testing and deployment You should know when AI can turn three weeks of work into one day. You should also know when it absolutely cannot. We are not looking for someone who only knows how to prompt. And we are not looking for someone who believes every product requires six engineers and a six-month roadmap. The ideal personYou have built and shipped real software products can personally build across the stack are extremely hands-on move quickly without sacrificing engineering judgment enjoy talking to customers care about business outcomes, not just code can work without detailed specifications are comfortable operating with ambiguity challenge assumptions think commercially understand that most early-stage features should be experiments are willing to kill work that does not create value want ownership rather than employment can commit full-time Very important: financial runwayThis opportunity does not include a salary initially. You must have enough personal financial runway to work full-time while we prove the business. This is not an unpaid employee role disguised as entrepreneurship. It is a cofounder partnership. We will agree on meaningful founder equity, vesting, roles, decision rights, IP ownership, and the economics of the company together. How we will workInitially, the team is intentionally tiny. Think Founder + Technical Co-Founder + AI + Customers No politics. No hierarchy. No giant org chart. We will talk to users build launch sell measure learn iterate kill weak ideas double down on strong ones Repeatedly. What success looks likeIn the first several months, we should be able to: turn the current Midas prototype into a production product onboard real founders persist their venture journeys and evidence improve Midas's recommendation engine connect Genies to external tools automate more founder workflows identify where human experts should intervene measure actual founder progression generate first Midas-specific revenue create a scalable technical foundation without building a bloated team You may be a fit if...You would rather own a meaningful part of an uncertain company than spend the next few years optimizing someone else's roadmap. You enjoy the phase where very little exists. You like shipping before everything feels ready. You want to sit directly across from customers. And you want to build something where your technical decisions materially determine whether the company succeeds. You are probably not a fit if...You are looking for: a salary from day one a part-time project consulting work clearly defined tickets a large engineering organization layers of management guaranteed outcomes low-risk employment How to applySend us: What have you built? What are you currently building with AI? What is something you shipped unusually fast? What is a technical decision you made that materially changed a business outcome? Why do you want to be a founder instead of taking another engineering role? Can you genuinely commit full-time without salary initially? Links to GitHub, products, demos, or anything you have shipped are highly encouraged. No recruiters. No agencies. No part-time arrangements. We are looking for the other builder at the table. Midas — Built by Fractionally Labs You bring the idea. Midas knows what comes next.