Co-Founder & CTO - AI PropTech for Municipal Approvals

FutureSight•San Francisco, CA

About The Position

Landera is building workflow intelligence software for development and infrastructure teams managing complex approval and coordination processes. The focus is not generic automation. The focus is on helping teams surface risk earlier, improve coordination across stakeholders, structure high-friction workflows, and increase operational throughput without increasing risk. The company is currently in formation with active design partners, validated customer demand, and strong early market feedback. This is an opportunity to help define a new category at the intersection of applied AI, operational systems, and high-trust workflows.

Requirements

Experience shipping production-grade software systems in environments where outputs carried operational or business consequences
Strong technical judgment across modern AI systems, data pipelines, workflow software, and secure SaaS architecture
Understands the tradeoffs between automation, reliability, and human oversight
Enjoys solving ambiguous systems problems with high ownership
Wants to build as a founder, not operate as an employee

Nice To Haves

Prior startup or founder experience
Experience in PropTech, AEC, GovTech, legal tech, fintech, or other high-trust workflow domains
Experience building systems involving document understanding, workflow orchestration, or operational intelligence

Responsibilities

Architect and build the company’s initial product and technical foundation
Design reliable systems for high-trust operational workflows
Lead technical direction across infrastructure, AI systems, and application architecture
Work directly with design partners to shape product direction and workflow design
Establish engineering standards around reliability, auditability, and explainability
Recruit and lead the founding engineering team
Partner directly with the CEO on fundraising and company strategy