Head of Technology

City eWaste, Franklin, TN

Full-Time
· Salaried
· On-Site
· Open Now

Every day, perfectly good electronics get thrown away. Laptops with a little life left, GPUs that just need a test, phones that need nothing but a wipe and a second owner. We rescue them, fix them, and find them a new home. Our purpose is repurpose.

Keeping a multi-location, franchised operation running takes a real stack. Internal web apps, AI-powered tooling, e-commerce automation, voice agents, and the infrastructure underneath all of it. Someone built that and now we need someone to own it. That someone could be you.

The stuff we’re building isn’t boring line-of-business software. We’re building platforms for the people who actually love this hardware: vintage computer collectors, tinkerers, curious thinkers, audio/video heads, and hardware enthusiasts. If that’s your tribe, or you’ve always wanted it to be, the work will feel like play.

This is a CTO-equivalent seat, and we’re being honest about what that means. We’re not looking for just a résumé, we’re looking for a person we can build something with. You’ll be the full-time technical lead and the one the whole company turns to when something technical needs answering: software, AI and automation, IT, office networking, day-to-day support, and franchise tech.

You’ll also roll up your sleeves at our Franklin location alongside our computer technicians. You report straight to the CEO, with a real voice in where the company goes.

Here’s the honest version of who we want. Someone young, hungry, and maybe unproven on paper, but undeniable in what they can actually do. We’d rather develop raw talent than rent a safe pair of hands. If you’re early in your career and you already build circles around people twice your age, this is for you.

We want an AI-native builder who’s aiming higher than “employee.” Someone who wants to be a co-founder in everything but title on day one, and who can earn the title, and the equity, by putting real value on the board. Equity is on the table when proven value is there. This is a prove-it-and-earn-it setup, not a wait-your-turn one.

Code is leverage. The founder has more ideas than hands, and your job is to turn the good ones into working systems, fast. This is a fast-paced, experimental company with a real track record behind it, not a science project. You’ll ship, learn, break things safely, and ship again.

And a big piece of what you’ll build isn’t throwaway. It’s the proprietary tech and systems that make the franchise model itself work. The internal platforms, the automations, the playbooks turned into software that a franchisee plugs into on day one and instantly operates like a pro. That’s real IP, and it’s a real part of the company’s value. If you want work where what you build compounds, where a system you ship once gets used across every location we open, this is that.

Something to be proud of.

This job rewards range and punishes specialists. If you light up at one narrow thing and go dark everywhere else, you’ll be miserable here. If you love the variety, a database migration before lunch and a flaky access point after, you’ll thrive.

And you won’t be dropped in cold. The person who built this stack isn’t disappearing. They’re shifting to a part‑time contractor role and staying on for development, strategy, and the bigger builds. You become the full-time owner. They become your partner on the hard stuff. That’s a genuine handoff, not a sink-or-swim, and it’s a rare setup for someone still leveling up.

Above all, we want a problem solver. Someone who looks at a messy operational headache and thinks, I can fix that with a script, a workflow, an AI agent, or a small app. Someone who reaches for the right tool the way a carpenter reaches for the right saw.

• Internal web apps that run our franchise operations, the proprietary systems every location depends on. Maintain them, extend them, and build the next generation
• Customer-facing properties, including our marketplace and corporate site
• Integrations with the platforms we sell on (eBay and related e-commerce APIs)
• Our…