Hotwash Founding Engineer CTO for the right person REMOTE US, Boston a plus Full-time
Founding Engineer for Hotwash, an after-action review platform for fire departments. Responsible for owning engineering, enabling the founder to focus on growth. Requires expertise in Python, Machine Learning, and AWS, with a strong full-stack development background.
Hotwash | Founding Engineer (→ CTO for the right person) | REMOTE (US), Boston a plus | Full-time I'm a solo founder. I built the entire product myself, got 11 fire departments paying with zero churn, and now I need someone to own engineering so I can't be the only one who does. West Point, Ranger Regiment, Yale Law, still the only developer. What we do: Hotwash is an after-action review platform for fire departments. After a serious call, crews record what happened, we transcribe and structure it, and the hard-won lessons become searchable institutional memory instead of retiring when the veterans who earned them do. Fire is the wedge; the long game is operational learning for any high-reliability organization. Traction: $40K ARR, 11 paying fire departments, zero churn. Raising a $1M pre-seed. The role: Employee #1 on engineering. You own the codebase, architecture, and UX end to end, and you lead the rebuild off the current stack. You work directly with me on what gets built and why,
Posted June 5, 2026