Co-Founder

About OneAi / XcelAI

OneAi builds XcelAI — a simple, affordable invoice extraction + conversational Excel assistant for small businesses and franchise owners. Our mission : remove manual data entry and make spreadsheet workflows conversational.

Role (summary) :

Join as technical cofounder to own backend systems, document ingestion & OCR pipelines, LLM orchestration, infra & security, and delivery of the XcelAI MVP into production.

Responsibilities :

Architect and build the ingestion pipeline (upload → OCR → extraction → DB).

Implement and iterate on OCR + LLM-based extraction (Tesseract / Textract / Vision API + prompt / LLM orchestration).

Design scalable APIs, job queueing (worker), retries, and monitoring.

Implement data model, confidence scoring, and edit / save flows.

Manage infra : S3 (or equivalent), Cloud Functions / ECS / Cloud Run, CI / CD, backups.

Build export connectors (CSV, Excel, Google Sheets).

Ensure basic security & privacy (TLS, auth, encryption at rest).

Work closely with founder on product, pilot onboarding, and customer troubleshooting.

Mentor engineers and technical hires as we scale.

Must-have :

3+ years backend production experience (Node / Python / Go).

Experience with OCR / document parsing (Tesseract, AWS Textract, Google Vision, or Nanonets).

Experience with LLMs or prompt orchestration (OpenAI, Gemini, LangChain etc.).

Cloud infra experience (AWS / GCP / Azure).

Solid DB skills (Postgres, MongoDB) and queueing systems (Redis / RabbitMQ).

Familiar with CI / CD, logging, and basic security practices.

Clear communicator; willing to do customer onboarding & support for pilots.

Comfortable as an early co-founder (equity-first, full-time).

Nice-to-have :

Google Sheets / Excel API integrations.

Experience with file processing at scale, multi-page PDFs, or image clean-up.

Startup / founder experience.

Domain experience with SMB accounting, retail / franchise workflows.

Commitment & Compensation

Part-time founder role.

Equity : 20–40% ( negotiable ; typical 4-year vesting with 1-year cliff). Exact split will depend on prior contributions and commitment.

Small stipend / monthly support during transition negotiable (recommended to offer a short paid trial).

Title : CTO / Co-founder.

Skills Required

Node, Go, TesserAct, Redis, Rabbitmq, Gcp, Postgres, Mongodb, gemini , Azure, Python, Aws