Tech Lead
Own product development. Choose the architecture. Build with AI agents.
Today Tech Lead — tomorrow Group CTO.
The role
The technical backbone of a venture studio
You'll own product development across all ventures. You report directly to the CEO, make architecture and tech stack decisions, and carry full responsibility for building our products the right way.
You write code, not slides. You don't wait for instructions — you take ownership. And you're deeply curious about what's happening right now in agentic development, autonomous workflows, and AI-driven software.
We build products where AI agents work autonomously — from autonomous linkbuilding to self-healing pipelines. You don't just understand it. You're passionate about it.
Your responsibilities
Product development & reporting
You own technical product development and report directly to the CEO. You translate business needs into technical solutions and ensure we ship fast and with quality.
Architecture & tech stack
You choose architecture, tech stack, and infrastructure for each venture. Pragmatic choices — what works, scales, and can be maintained by a small team.
Agentic & autonomous development
You drive our AI-first approach: autonomous agents, LLM-integrated workflows, AI-driven linkbuilding, and Claude-based development infrastructure. This isn't the future — it's now.
Hands-on coding
You build alongside the team. Not just reviews and architecture diagrams — you write production code daily across our ventures in Laravel, React, Svelte, and Next.js.
Team building
You hire and shape the technical team as we scale. You set the standard for code culture, code reviews, and technical decisions.
Business understanding
You understand that technology is a means, not an end. You can prioritize features that drive revenue, and say no to those that don't.
What you build
Multiple businesses from scratch
You don't build one product forever. You build multiple ventures simultaneously — from first line of code to scale.
Payfriend
AI-powered pre-collection
Leganto
AI legal practice management
CarFriend
CRM for car dealers
NextLab Platform
Internal operations
+ more ventures in the pipeline. We continuously launch new products — you're in from day one.
A typical week
What your day-to-day looks like
No two weeks are the same. But here's a realistic picture of what you do.
Stand-up with CEO. Status on ventures, prioritizing the week's tasks, discussing new features vs. tech debt.
Deep work: you write code. New integration in Payfriend, refactoring the Leganto API, reviewing a PR.
Architecture decision: Should the next venture run on Svelte or React? You research, make the call, document it.
AI day: you fine-tune an autonomous linkbuilding agent, test new Claude prompts, build a new agentic workflow.
Reporting to CEO: product status, what we've shipped, what's blocking, and what to prioritize next sprint.
Experiments: new technology, prototyping an idea, or just shipping that feature you've been wanting to build all week.
Stack
Pragmatic, modern, no overengineering
We use what works. Fast, stable, and ready for AI integration.
Laravel 12
PHP 8.4
React 19
TypeScript
Svelte 5
Runes
Next.js 16
App Router
Claude API
AI Agents
Inertia.js
SPA Bridge
Our philosophy
Competence > years of experience
We write 5+ years of experience because we're looking for someone who understands how the real world works — not just theory. But competence level is clearly more important than CV lines. Have you built something serious and can prove it? Then talk to us.
We're looking for
Who are you?
5+ years of experience as a full-stack developer — or equivalent competence
Solid experience with Laravel + React/Svelte in production
Architecture understanding — you design systems, not just features
Thrive with autonomy, ownership, and direct product responsibility
Deeply engaged in agentic development and autonomous AI workflows
Experience with DevOps — deployment, servers, CI/CD
Understand business — can prioritize what creates value
Ambitions — want to build something bigger than yet another feature factory
Bonus
Nice to have
Experience leading a small tech team
Experience in venture or startup environments
Hands-on with Claude, GPT, or other LLM APIs
Have built or used AI agents in practice
Experience with autonomous development workflows
We offer
More than a job
Career path to Group CTO
Not an empty title — a real plan with milestones
Co-ownership & equity
You build it, you own it
Office at Lilletorv
Paustian building, Aarhus C — hybrid setup
AI-first culture
LLM integrations and agents as daily tools
Venture building
Build multiple products, not one forever
Small team, big impact
Your decisions are felt immediately
Interested?
Let's hear from you
No formal application needed. Send an email with a bit about yourself, why this role interests you, and a link to something you've built.
vb@nextlabventures.com