{"id":4110731,"url":"https://alion.io/job/tono-co-cto","title":"Co-CTO","company":{"id":4535509,"name":"Tono","domain":"tonohq.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/tono-2","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":null,"truth_index":null},"role":"Leadership","role_family":"Leadership","seniority":"head","employment_type":"freelance","work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"board_field","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"inferred","locations":["Denmark"],"countries":["DK"],"hiring_countries":["DK"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"C#","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Cursor","optional":false},{"name":"Outlook","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-11T11:44:45Z","employer_posted_date":null,"last_verified_at":"2026-11-11T11:44:45Z","board_verified":false,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"not_scored","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"Help Build, Lead and Scale Tono, a Next-Generation B2B SaaS PlatformRemote-first | Flexible Commitment | Approximately 15–20 Hours per Week | Equity Participation\n\nWould You Like to Help Build a European SaaS Business?\nWe are looking for an experienced, entrepreneurial Software Architect and Technology Leader to join the founding team behind Tono.\nThis is an opportunity for someone with a strong software engineering background who wants to do more than write code. You will help shape technology and product decisions, drive development initiatives, contribute to customer discussions and play an active role in building the business.\nWe have already developed a comprehensive B2B SaaS platform and are approaching our next important phase: product refinement, commercial launch, customer implementations and international expansion.\nYou will not be joining a project that exists only as an idea or a PowerPoint presentation. You will be joining a business with an established software platform, a founding team, a clear product strategy and an experienced advisory board.\nWe are looking for someone who has both the ambition and the capability to take meaningful responsibility for what comes next.\n\nAbout Tono\nTono is a Danish technology company developing an External Workforce Governance Platform for organisations that engage external consultants, freelancers and professional services providers.\nIn many larger organisations, external workforce management remains fragmented across different systems, spreadsheets, emails and manual processes.\nThis makes it difficult to maintain a consolidated view of who is working for the business, what they are delivering, how much they cost and whether contractual and compliance requirements are being met.\nTono has been designed to address this challenge.\nOur platform connects three key participants within one integrated environment:\nEnterprise clients engaging external expertise.\n\nConsulting firms and staffing suppliers providing specialist resources.\n\nIndividual consultants and freelancers delivering the work.\n\nThe platform supports the processes associated with sourcing, skills matching, contracting, approvals, assignment management, time recording, invoicing, financial visibility and compliance.\nA fundamental principle behind Tono is that all three participants work with relevant shared information relating to the same engagement, rather than maintaining separate and disconnected processes.\nTono also incorporates functionality for assessing and documenting compliance risks, including worker classification and cross-border engagement considerations.\nArtificial intelligence supports selected workflows, including skills profiling, drafting requirements and candidate matching, while retaining appropriate human oversight.\nOur ambition is to make external workforce management more connected, transparent and efficient for everyone involved.\nWe are initially focused on the Nordic market, with the longer-term ambition of building a competitive European software business.\nAdapt. Align. Accelerate.\n\nThe Opportunity: Co-CTO and Member of the Founding Team\n\nAs Co-CTO, you will become a key technology and business partner to our existing CTO, Chief Product Officer and CEO.\nThe role combines hands-on software engineering, solution architecture, technical project leadership and commercial collaboration.\nYou should be equally comfortable discussing code and architecture, reviewing a product roadmap, resolving development challenges or explaining a technical solution to a prospective enterprise customer.\nYou will be expected to take ownership of development activities from initial requirements through to implementation, while maintaining a broader perspective on what makes sense for Tono technologically, operationally and commercially.\nImportantly, you will complement our existing CTO, not replace them.\nWe want to bring together complementary technical expertise within a small, ambitious founding team, sharing responsibilities according to experience, individual strengths and the needs of the business.\nThe precise division of responsibilities between the CTO and Co-CTO will be agreed collaboratively.\n\nYour Key Responsibilities\n\nSoftware Engineering & Architecture\nContribute directly to the continued development of Tono's C#/.NET-based platform, helping maintain a robust, scalable and maintainable software architecture.\nTechnical Project Leadership\nTranslate product priorities and business requirements into structured development activities, realistic delivery plans and clearly defined milestones.\nTake ownership of progress, identify dependencies and ensure that technical initiatives move forward.\nProduct Development\nWork closely with the CTO and Chief Product Officer on product architecture, technical solutions, user experience and roadmap prioritisation.\nHelp maintain the right balance between functionality, technical quality, development effort and commercial priorities.\nPre-Sales & Customer Engagement\nParticipate in technical presentations, product demonstrations and workshops with prospective enterprise customers.\nBe able to explain Tono's architecture, integration capabilities, security considerations and technical approach in language that both technical and business stakeholders can understand.\nEngineering Quality & Best Practice\nContribute to code reviews, testing strategies, development standards, automation, CI/CD, performance optimisation and the management of technical debt.\nHelp establish practical engineering disciplines appropriate for a growing SaaS business.\nEnterprise Readiness\nSupport the platform's ability to meet enterprise expectations regarding security, availability, access management, documentation, integrations and operational reliability.\nStrategic Collaboration\nParticipate actively in discussions with the founding team concerning technology, product strategy, customer needs, commercial priorities and the future development of the company.\nFuture Scaling\nHelp establish the engineering practices, technical processes and organisational foundations required as Tono acquires customers and expands internationally.\n\nAbout You\n\nYou are likely to have spent several years in a role such as:\nSenior Software Engineer\n\nLead Developer\n\nSoftware Architect\n\nEngineering Lead\n\nHead of Software Development\n\nCTO or Technical Co-Founder\n\nYou are, first and foremost, a highly capable software engineer and architect. However, you also have the motivation to take on broader responsibilities and contribute to building a business.\nYou have substantial practical experience with C# and .NET, including the development and maintenance of professional software applications in production environments.\nYou understand the principles behind modern SaaS platforms, including software architecture, data modelling, APIs, integrations, scalability, information security, performance and maintainability.\nYou are confident making sound technical decisions without introducing unnecessary complexity.\nExperience with enterprise applications, cloud-based systems, SaaS products or technical product leadership would be particularly valuable.\nFamiliarity with AI-assisted software development tools, such as Cursor, is also relevant, as these technologies already form part of our development approach.\n\nYour Mindset Matters as Much as Your Technical Expertise\n\nWe are not necessarily looking for the candidate with the longest list of technologies on their CV.\nWe are looking for someone with strong technical judgement, intellectual curiosity and an entrepreneurial mindset.\nYou are comfortable working independently, but you also enjoy discussing ideas, challenging assumptions and developing solutions collaboratively.\nYou can explain and defend a technical decision, while remaining open to changing direction when a better approach emerges.\nYou work in a structured manner, take ownership of your commitments and communicate clearly about progress, challenges and opportunities.\nYou appreciate that a startup does not always have perfect processes, unlimited resources or complete specifications.\nYou are pragmatic without compromising the engineering quality that matters for the long-term success of the product.\nAbove all, you are attracted by the opportunity to help build a company in which your contribution and decisions can make a genuine difference.\n\nHow We Work\n\nTono currently operates as a remote-first team.\nWe work from different locations and place considerable emphasis on flexibility, trust, open communication and individual accountability.\nWe have two scheduled online stand-up meetings each week, where we coordinate activities, review progress, discuss challenges and agree priorities.\nAdditional online meetings take place whenever technical or commercial matters require collaboration or joint decisions.\nWe expect you to be engaged, accessible and proactive in your communication.\nIn return, we are not concerned with where you work or precisely when you complete your tasks.\nWhat matters is progress, quality, reliability and effective collaboration.\nWe envisage an initial commitment of approximately 15–20 hours per week.\nThis makes it possible to maintain other professional commitments, provided that availability, engagement and any potential conflicts of interest can be managed appropriately.\nWe see this as a long-term partnership rather than a short-term development assignment.\n\nMore Than a Technology Role\n\nOne of the most interesting aspects of this opportunity is the breadth of the responsibilities involved.\nYou will not simply be helping us improve an existing software platform.\nYou will also contribute to answering the fundamental questions that arise when a technology product develops into a commercially successful business.\n\nFor example:\nHow do we balance product development priorities with the requirements of prospective customers?\n\nHow do we deliver new functionality efficiently while maintaining the architectural quality required for future growth?\n\nHow do we prepare a platform for enterprise-level requirements without creating unnecessary organisational complexity?\n\nHow can we use AI and modern development practices to increase engineering productivity and improve the quality of our solutions?\n\nAnd how do we gradually build a technology organisation capable of supporting a growing international customer base?\n\nAs Co-CTO, you will help shape the answers to these questions.\nYou will be involved in decisions that extend well beyond software implementation.\n\nWhat We Offer\n\nThis is not a conventional full-time employment opportunity.\nIt is an opportunity to join an existing startup as Co-CTO and Technical Co-Founder, with meaningful influence over the product, technology strategy and future direction of the business.\nWe offer a flexible, long-term commitment with the opportunity for equity participation. 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