
Brikito — Lead Full-Stack Developer
Job Description
About Brikito
Brikito is an early-stage PropTech startup building a construction management platform for SME developers and contractors. The founder has 7+ years of hands-on construction experience and an MBA from Warwick Business School. We have initial funding, a domain (brikito.com), wireframes ready, and active customer validation underway. We need our first technical leader to take this from wireframes to a live product.
This is a ground-floor opportunity. You will be the first technical hire — the person who makes every architecture decision and writes the first line of production code.
The Role
Title: CTO / Lead Full-Stack Developer (title depends on experience and equity arrangement)
Location: India (remote OK, occasional visits to Chennai office and overseas office planning to set up in Singapore or Dubai)
Type: Full-time
Compensation: ₹1,00,000–₹2,50,000/month + meaningful equity (0.5%–5% depending on role level, vesting over 4 years based on vesting schedule with a cliff.)
Start Date: May 2026
Reports to: Founder/CEO
- What You Will DoMonths 1–3: Build the MVPOwn all technical decisions — architecture, tech stack, database design, hosting
- Build and ship a working MVP with 3 core features: project dashboard, billing/invoicing, and indent/procurement management
- Set up CI/CD pipeline, staging, and production environments
- Integrate payment gateway (Razorpay for India)
- Build both web and mobile-responsive interfaces
- Ship the MVP within 12 weeks
- Months 3–6: Iterate and ScaleOnboard beta users and fix bugs based on real usage
- Build features based on customer feedback (not assumptions)
- Integrate AI capabilities where they add clear user value (e.g., auto-generated progress reports)
- Hire and manage 1–2 junior developers as the team grows
- Set up monitoring, error tracking, and basic analytics
- Months 6–12: Lead the Technical TeamGrow the engineering team to 4–6 people
- Establish code review processes, documentation standards, and sprint rhythms
- Own the technical roadmap alongside the founder
- Participate in investor conversations as the technical co-founder (if CTO-level)
- Make build-vs-buy decisions for new features
- Required SkillsMust Have7+ years of professional software development experience
- Strong proficiency in React or Next.js (frontend)
- Strong proficiency in Node.js (backend) — Express, Nest.js, or similar
- PostgreSQL or MySQL — database design, query optimisation, migrations
- REST API design — clean, well-documented APIs
- Cloud deployment — AWS (EC2, RDS, S3) or GCP equivalent
- Expertise in AI tools and integrations - Anthropic, OpenAI, Perplexity, etc.
- Git — clean branching, PR-based workflow
- Has shipped at least one product that real users used — not just academic or internal tools
- Comfortable working independently — no one will tell you what to do step by step
- Strongly PreferredPrevious experience at a startup (Series A or earlier)
- Experience building SaaS or B2B products
- Experience with mobile development (React Native or Flutter)
- Experience integrating payment gateways (Razorpay, Stripe)
- Experience with third-party API integrations (OpenAI, Twilio, etc.)
- Understanding of CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Docker)
- Basic understanding of construction, real estate, or field operations (not required, but a plus)
- Nice to HaveExperience with TypeScript
- Experience with real-time features (WebSockets, push notifications)
- Familiarity with Figma (to translate wireframes into UI)
- Experience hiring and mentoring junior developers
- Open source contributions or a personal project portfolio
- What We Are NOT Looking ForSomeone who needs detailed specifications for every task — we move fast and figure things out together
- Someone who only wants to code and not think about the product — you will be in customer calls and strategy discussions
- Someone who optimises for perfect code over shipping — we ship first, refactor later
- Someone looking for a stable corporate job — this is a startup with all the chaos and excitement that comes with it
- What You GetEquity ownership in an early-stage company with a large addressable market ($14.9B global construction SaaS)
- Founding team credit — you will be recognised as a technical co-founder if you take the CTO role
- Direct impact — every line of code you write will be used by real customers within weeks
- Technical freedom — you choose the stack, the tools, the architecture
- A founder who understands the domain — you will never have to guess what contractors need because the CEO has built construction projects himself
- Growth path — as we raise funding and scale, you grow into VP Engineering or CTO of a funded company
How to Apply
Send the following:
- A short note (5–10 lines) on why this role interests you and what you'd bring
- Your LinkedIn profile or resume
- One link to something you've built — a live product, a GitHub repo, an app, anything that shows your work
- Your availability — when can you start?
We will respond within 48 hours. The process is:
- 30-minute video call with the founder
- Small paid technical task (8 hours of work, ₹5,000 paid regardless of outcome)
- Final conversation about role, equity, and start date
- Offer within 1 week of first call
Questions?
DM the founder on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aashiqahamed/
This is not a job posting from HR. This is a founder looking for his first technical partner. If this excites you, reach out.

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