Chief Technology Officer

About Covercy

Covercy is a fintech startup moving almost $2 billion every year through our platform. We’re doing this by building a modern fintech stack that powers everything from bank accounts and cross-border payments to checks, cards, and more.

Our SaaS product is used by the private equity industry, where real-estate funds buy buildings, offices and shopping centers for profit in the U.S. and around the world.

Our R&D organization is AI-native. Around 90% of our day-to-day development is driven by AI agents using clear instructions and SPEC-first development. We move fast by combining strong engineering fundamentals with modern AI tooling.

At Covercy, you have an opportunity to lead a team creating scalable financial technology that makes it easier, faster, and safer to move money, powering the private equity industry across the globe.

The Opportunity

• We are looking for a CTO to lead our growing engineering organization and help us build, scale, and enhance our AI-first SaaS platform.

You’ll:

• Own the overall technical strategy, architecture, and execution of our product roadmap.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering team.
• Drive and evolve the AI-agent, instruction- and SPEC-driven development practices across the organization.
• Work closely with product, design, and management to turn business goals into scalable, reliable systems.

At Covercy, you’ll be part of a dynamic, ambitious team, shaping the future of fintech for commercial real estate.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, build, and ongoing evolution of Covercy’s SaaS platform with a focus on scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Champion AI-agent based development, spec-driven workflows, and best practices for using AI tools across the R&D team.
• Oversee the devops team, and lead security, efficiency and compliance.
• Define and own the engineering roadmap in partnership with product and leadership.
• Establish and continuously improve engineering processes, standards, and quality metrics.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to deliver impactful, customer-centric solutions.
• Make key architectural decisions and drive modernization of our technology stack.
• Ensure a high bar for code quality, testing, security, observability, and documentation.
• Recruit, develop, and retain top engineering talent; build a culture of ownership, learning, and accountability.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and optimize system performance at scale when needed.

Requirements

• A strong belief that AI can generate production-grade code and a desire to work in an AI-native, prompt-driven engineering environment. If you’re skeptical about AI coding — this role is not for you.
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant backend/system design experience.
• 3+ years in an engineering leadership role (e.g. Head of Engineering, Director, CTO, VP R&D, or equivalent), managing teams and owning delivery of complex products.
• Strong experience designing and implementing APIs and distributed backend services.
• Strong understanding of SQL databases and relational data modeling.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, modern DevOps practices, and cloud-native architectures.
• Hands-on experience working with AI-assisted development (e.g. Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot) as part of your daily workflow.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills for addressing complex technical challenges.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively in a hybrid/remote environment.
• Proficiency in English, both written and spoken.

Our Technology Stack Includes:

• TypeScript / Node.js for backend services.
• Instruction- and SPEC-driven development using AI agents as core part of the workflow.
• Prisma as our ORM and data access layer.
• Vercel for hosting and deploying our applications.
• SQL databases.
• Event-driven systems and messaging/queueing infrastructure.
• AI-powered development tools such as Cursor, VS Code with Claude, and ChatGPT.

Nice-to-Have (Advantages):

• Experience with modern frontend technologies (e.g. React, Next.js, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, JavaScript).
• Experience with Prisma in production environments.
• Experience deploying and operating services on Vercel and/or other serverless/cloud platforms.
• Experience mentoring or leading other engineers in an AI-native development environment.
• Hands-on experience building or orchestrating AI agents, RAG systems, or workflow automation using LLMs (e.g. for coding, QA, monitoring, or operations).

About You

• Technical Proficiency: You’re comfortable being hands on. We believe that in the pace of change we’re experiencing, this is key to drive success. 
• Architecture Skills: You’re happy to diving deep into architecture, and you bring a strong engineering toolkit.
• AI-Native Mindset: You’re excited about building an engineering organization where AI agents, instructions, and SPEC-driven development are the default way of working.
• System Design Mindset: You understand what good technical design looks like and how to embed quality into every stage of development.
• Execution-Oriented: You know how to prioritize, make tradeoffs, and ship value quickly while keeping long-term architecture in mind.
• Agile Approach: You thrive in an Agile environment and are familiar with practices like iterative delivery, CI/CD, and continuous improvement.
• Great Communicator & Leader: You’re collaborative, vocal, and enjoy building a strong, transparent, and supportive culture.
• Team Builder & Mentor: You share your knowledge generously, mentor others, and have a track record of building and growing teams.
• Growth-Oriented: You constantly seek to improve yourself, your team, and the systems you own.

Why Join Covercy?

• Be part of a fast-growing fintech SaaS company disrupting the commercial real estate industry.
• Lead an AI-native engineering organization where 90% of development is done with AI agents, instructions, and SPEC-driven workflows.
• Covercy encourages and supports the use of AI tools (Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT, etc.) to empower engineers to work smarter and faster.
• Hybrid work model: 2-3 days per week at our Israel office, Beit Gibor Sport, Menachem Begin 7, Ramat Gan. Our office is just 2 minutes from the train and 4 minutes from the Red Line of the light rail.
• Competitive compensation package with career advancement potential.
• Collaborative, innovative, and supportive company culture.