Technical Co-Founder (Founding Engineer)

Compensation: 20.0% – 25.0%

About TruTrace Intelligence TruTrace Intelligence is building CaseLink Analyst Notebook**—Africa's first native investigative intelligence platform for investigators, financial institutions, law enforcement, compliance teams, and corporate security. CaseLink helps analysts collect, enrich, correlate, visualize, and report intelligence from multiple sources within a single investigation. Instead of juggling spreadsheets, browser tabs, OSINT tools, and disconnected systems, investigators can manage an entire investigation from one platform. What We've Built CaseLink is well beyond the idea stage. Current capabilities include: * Investigative link analysis and relationship mapping * Timeline reconstruction * Evidence Vault with chain of custody * Immutable audit trail * WhatsApp intelligence ingestion * OSINT discovery workspace * Automated entity extraction * Mention Intelligence * African identity intelligence (Phone & CAC integration) * Geospatial intelligence * Investigation reporting * AI-assisted investigative workflows The platform has 900+ automated tests and is approaching production deployment. The Problem We're Solving Investigators across Africa often rely on disconnected tools, spreadsheets, manual OSINT collection, and expensive foreign software that wasn't designed for African investigative workflows. We're building an African-native platform that brings intelligence collection, analysis, enrichment, evidence management, and reporting together in one investigative workspace. Who I'm Looking For A technical co-founder who wants to build long-term infrastructure—not just ship features. Ideally someone with experience in: * Python (FastAPI/Django) * React & TypeScript * PostgreSQL or MongoDB * Cloud infrastructure & DevOps * Security-first engineering Experience in cybersecurity, fintech, govtech, intelligence, investigations, or compliance is a strong advantage. What You'll Do * Own and scale the engineering function * Shape the technical roadmap * Improve architecture and platform performance * Lead product development alongside the founder * Help recruit and build the engineering team * Prepare the platform for enterprise deployments across Africa Why Join * Founding technical leadership role * Meaningful equity ownership * Build category-defining investigative technology for Africa * Solve real problems for financial institutions, law enforcement, regulators, and corporate investigations * Opportunity to help create the leading investigative intelligence platform built for African institutions If you're excited about building critical technology with long-term impact, I'd love to hear from you. Please share what you've built, the products you've worked on, and why this mission resonates with you.