About Snapbau
Snapbau is an AI-powered SaaS procurement platform built for the construction industry. In under a year, we’ve achieved strong traction in the Swiss market and are now entering a rapid scale-up phase with international expansion ahead.
We are building software for real-world construction environments — fragmented systems, low-connectivity job sites, fast operational workflows, and high execution pressure. The next phase of the company requires a deeply technical leader who can architect scalable systems while shipping production code daily.
This is a hands-on builder role for someone who wants to own architecture, infrastructure, engineering execution, and technical product evolution from the ground up.
The Role
We are looking for an experienced CTO / senior technical leader who combines strong product engineering instincts with pragmatic startup execution. This is not a delegation-only executive position. You will:
- writing production code daily
- defining system architecture
- building scalable infrastructure
- leading engineering execution
- hiring and mentoring the first engineering team
- translating real construction workflows into technical systems
You will work directly with the CEO and customers to build software that functions reliably in real operational environments.
Your responsibilities
Technical Architecture & Product Development
- Own system architecture and technical direction
- Build scalable multi-tenant SaaS systems across backend, APIs, infrastructure, and frontend
- Drive pragmatic architecture decisions balancing speed, scalability, and maintainability
- Ensure platform reliability, performance, and extensibility
Full-Stack Engineering (Hands-On)
- Develop production systems primarily with PHP 8.3+ and Laravel 13+
- Build APIs, async jobs, queue systems, caching, and event-driven services
- Contribute across frontend technologies including Vue.js, React, and Alpine.js
- Own debugging, monitoring, security, performance, and production reliability
Construction-Tech & Offline-First Systems
- Design systems for low-connectivity, mobile-first construction environments
- Build offline-first workflows enabling real-time field-to-office collaboration
- Create reliable operational workflows for procurement, approvals, and tracking
Integrations & Infrastructure
- Build integrations with ERP and accounting systems, and auxiliary software providers i.e. Autodesk, etc
- Develop scalable APIs, interoperability layers, and construction data pipelines
- Own cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, databases, monitoring, and production environments across GCP/AWS
Engineering Leadership
- Hire and mentor the first engineering team
- Establish engineering standards, development practices, and code quality
- Drive fast, high-quality execution in a startup environment
Product Collaboration & Execution
- Work closely with the CEO to translate operational workflows into product systems
- Assess technical feasibility and execution trade-offs
- Prioritize effectively between rapid shipping and long-term scalability
Requirements
Experience
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Proven experience as:
- CTO
- senior engineering leader
- or principal/full-stack engineer in a high-growth B2B SaaS company
- Strong track record building and scaling systems from early-stage through rapid growth
- Experience operating in startup environments with high ambiguity and rapid execution cycles
- Strong history of shipping complex systems into production
Technical Depth
- Strong backend and infrastructure expertise
- Deep experience with PHP and Laravel in production environments
- Strong API architecture and systems integration experience
- Experience building scalable SaaS products and distributed systems
- Strong understanding of:
- databases
- caching
- asynchronous processing
- performance optimization
- production debugging
- Comfortable operating across backend, frontend, infrastructure, and cloud systems
Execution Mindset
- Strong ownership mentality from architecture to production deployment
- Bias toward shipping fast and iterating from customer feedback
- Pragmatic approach to technical trade-offs
- Comfortable making decisions with incomplete information
- Strong product intuition grounded in real user constraints
Languages
- Professional English required
- Fluent French required
What This Role Is NOT
- Not a pure executive or delegation-only CTO role
- Not an enterprise architecture role disconnected from product execution
- Not a theoretical systems design position without shipping responsibility
- Not an isolated engineering role detached from customers and field operations
Why Join Snapbau
- Build at the intersection of AI, SaaS, and construction-tech
- Direct impact on a fast-growing product entering its next scale phase
- Shape technical architecture and engineering culture from the ground up
- Work closely with real users and see immediate operational impact
- Contribute directly to how AI will transform procurement and construction workflows
- Join a highly execution-oriented team with fast iteration cycles and visible outcome
- Significant growth opportunities into long-term technical leadership
Pay: CHF81’288.66 - CHF220’145.60 per year
Benefits:
Work Location: In person
