Contact person: Founding CTO Needed for SnapLens

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Location: Singapore, Singapore

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Time to start: As soon as possible

Project description:
"SnapLens - Founding CTO Opportunity
Location: Singapore (Remote considered for outstanding candidates)
Compensation: Significant founder equity; salary commences with funding/milestones
Commitment: Full-time, early-stage co-founder

About SnapLens
SnapLens is building a global visual commerce platform, transforming every image into an instant, multi-merchant shopping opportunity. We’re pioneering a new standard for how the world buys, discovers, and monetizes products through visual content, reaching well beyond today’s social or e-commerce apps.
The Role
We’re searching for a Founding CTO ready to fully own and drive SnapLens’s technical vision and product architecture from day one. This is a true co-founder position demanding deep commitment, relentless execution, and personal investment for substantial long-term equity. Early on, your success is tied to the technical and business impact you deliver.
Core Technical Skills Required
• Computer Vision & Deep Learning:
• Hands-on experience with state-of-the-art object detection and multi-object segmentation (YOLO family, Mask RCNN, EfficientDet, Detectron2, segmentation models)
• Model training, fine-tuning, and optimization for accuracy and inference speed
• Understanding of data annotation, active learning, and model validation
• Visual Search Systems:
• Building scalable product/image search engines using image embeddings, similarity search (FAISS/Annoy)
• Scene parsing (detecting multiple products in a single image and matching each to live catalogs)
• AI/ML Platform Engineering:
• Deploying and maintaining AI on both cloud and mobile/edge environments
• ML pipeline design, CI/CD for AI, versioning, and performance monitoring
• Full Stack Product Development:
• Web/mobile (iOS/Android) application development; integration of AI inference endpoints
• RESTful API/websocket design and integration with external merchant/affiliate APIs
• Experience with scalable architectures, authentication, and analytics
• E-Commerce Integration:
• Ingesting/cataloging millions of SKUs from external sources (marketplaces, brand feeds, Shopify, etc.)
• Designing robust, real-time product ingestion, management, and matching APIs
• Data, Security, and Privacy:
• Experience with GDPR, PDPA, and strong privacy-by-design practices for user and product data
• Secure payment redirection and basic fraud protection principles
• Bonus:
• Prior startup, MVP, or zero-to-one build experience
• Familiarity with creator/affiliate systems or analytics dashboards
• Experience hiring and leading high-performing tech teams
Additional Qualities
• Builder’s mindset: Proven history of building, shipping, and iterating products hands-on, under constraints.
• Ownership mentality: Willing to work intensively (pre-salary) to create both technical and company value.
• Team builder: Ready to recruit, manage, and motivate a world-class engineering organization.
• Candor and adaptability: Comfort with direct feedback, fast pivots, and ambiguity.
• Mission alignment: Motivated by the challenge of defining and scaling a global platform, not just a job or prestige.
To Apply
Please share:
• Specific links/examples of platforms, AI/ML systems, or computer vision applications you’ve built or led
• Your role and key contributions for each project
• The most difficult technical or team challenge you’ve solved, and what you learned
• Why a co-founder role at SnapLens appeals to you" (client-provided description)