Chief Technology Officer

Responsibilities

• Own the technical vision and architecture across all platforms and products
• Set and maintain engineering standards - code quality, security, scalability, and reliability
• Lead and develop the Senior Leadership Team (SLT)
• Drive technical decisions that balance speed, quality, and long-term scalability
• Own platform uptime, infrastructure, and incident response standards
• Align engineering capacity and priorities with product and business goals
• Identify and resolve technical debt, risks, and bottlenecks before they become blockers
• Build a high-performance engineering culture - high standards, fast delivery, continuous learning
• Evaluate and adopt new technologies that improve capability or efficiency
• Represent technical strategy and risks to the executive team and board

Requirements

• 10+ years in engineering, with at least 3 years in a technical leadership role
• Hands-on background - has built and shipped products, not just managed engineers
• Proven experience scaling engineering teams and platforms in a fast-moving environment
• Strong architecture knowledge across web, mobile, backend, and infrastructure
• Able to bridge technical and business conversations - translates complexity into clarity
• High standards - sets the bar and holds the team to it