CTO & Co-Founder - EdTech AI

🌍 About Antai Ventures

Antai Ventures is a leading venture studio headquartered in Barcelona, with a strong presence across Southern Europe and Latin America. We team up with exceptional entrepreneurs to build disruptive, scalable companies from scratch. Since 2012, we've co-founded 30+ ventures, including Glovo, Wallapop, PlatanoMelon, and PiperAI. Collectively, our startups have raised over $1.5B in funding, generated $3B+ in shareholder value, and created 5,000+ jobs.

💡 The Opportunity

We’re building Selvia, an AI-powered EdTech platform revolutionizing how people prepare for official exams — and we’re looking for a Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to lead Product and Tech from day one.

Selvia combines educational science, data, and adaptive learning to create hyper-personalized study experiences. By understanding each student’s personality, learning style, and lifestyle, it builds customized study plans, simulations, and resources that maximize the return on study time — much like having a private tutor for everyone.

We’re starting with a massive challenge — competitive exam preparation — but our long-term vision is to become the lifelong learning companion for millions, supporting both personal and professional growth. We already have a live MVP with paying customers, validating our hypothesis and giving very positive signs of early traction.

You’ll join Anna Vique, Selvia’s CEO and co-founder, who brings over a decade of strategic and leadership experience as CRO at CTAIMA (where she led international expansion into 3 LatAm markets in under a year) and as Senior Manager at Accenture Strategy.

This is a unique opportunity to co-build a company from the ground up, backed by Antai’s resources, expertise, and operational network.

🛠️ What You’ll Do

• Collaborate with the co-founders and executive team to define the product’s technical vision and roadmap, ensuring alignment with business strategy.

• Build and lead a world-class engineering team across backend, frontend, and data—fostering a cloud-native, continuous delivery mindset and ensuring professional growth.

• Architect a scalable, resilient, and secure technology platform with freedom to choose between monolith, microservices, serverless, and other modern patterns.

• Select the right technology stack for both backend and frontend applications, optimizing for speed, reliability, and scalability.

• Lead development with strong knowledge of software design principles, particularly Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and SOLID principles.

• Oversee the design and deployment of a robust data processing pipeline, managing ingestion, transformation, and storage for high-volume use cases.

• Champion engineering excellence, continuous improvement, and agile methodologies across the product lifecycle.

• Act as a tech-business bridge, communicating complex ideas clearly to non-technical stakeholders and collaborating closely with the CEO and executive team.

• Foster a culture of curiosity, ownership, and proactive problem-solving across the tech team.

🔍 What We’re Looking For

• 8+ years of experience as a Software Engineer, ideally in backend technologies (Java/Spring or PHP/Symfony preferred).

• Proven leadership experience as a Tech Lead or CTO in a startup or fast-growing digital company.

• Strong grasp of Cloud Native environments: Docker, Kubernetes, microservices, service mesh, infrastructure-as-code.

• Expertise in designing and scaling data architectures, including pipelines for stream/batch processing and data warehousing.

• Deep understanding of software architecture, testing, design patterns, and team workflows in agile development environments.

• Track record of hiring, mentoring, and scaling high-performing engineering teams.

• Entrepreneurial mindset and hands-on, get-it-done approach.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills—able to translate tech into business.

• Fluency in both English and Spanish.

• Bonus: Experience in EdTech or similar consumer products and building AI-first digital products.

🤝 What We Offer

• The chance to co-found a company with Antai Ventures, one of Europe’s leading venture studios, with a proven model for turning bold ideas into successful businesses.

• A founder-first structure — Founders keep majority ownership and control of the company, with Antai as a Founding Partner and Board Member.

• Initial funding and hands-on support from Antai’s in-house operator team across Product, Tech, Design, Growth, Legal, Talent, Fundraising, and Finance — so you can focus on building, testing, and scaling.

• Access to Antai’s ecosystem of serial entrepreneurs, mentors, and top-tier investors.

• The opportunity to earn equity in Antai’s wider portfolio as part of our founder network.

📩 Ready to Build?

If you’re a product and tech-driven entrepreneur ready to build the next big thing in EdTech, let’s talk.