Co-founder & tech architect for ai-driven saas

Ex-Books • South-Africa, gauteng • Posted July 16, 2026

Position Overview

We’re looking for a Co-founder — Head of Technology

At Ex-Books, we’ve done the hard part: we’ve built and shipped four live Saa S products for African markets — without a CTO, without an engineering team, and without external capital. Using AI-assisted development tools, our founder built the entire stack from scratch.

Now we need someone to own it, scale it, and take it further than a non-technical founder ever could.

If you’re a developer who wants to be a builder — not just an employee — this is the opportunity.

WHAT YOU'LL BE WALKING INTO Four live products on a shared stack: Supabase (Postgre SQL + auth), Lovable (frontend), Netcash + Pay Pal (payments), Tapfiliate (affiliate), Post Hog + GA4 (analytics), Resend (email) WHAT YOU'LL BE BUILDING Offline-first PWA rearchitecture for low-bandwidth, site-level use LLM fine-tuned on SA tax legislation for Comply Easy (VAT Act, CIPC, COIDA, B-BBEE) Android + i OS native packaging for all PWA products ...