Chief Technology Officer

About the position

Bidgely (which means "electricity" in Hindi) is an AI-powered SaaS Company accelerating a clean energy future by enabling energy companies and consumers to make data-driven energy-related decisions. Ranked #7 in Applied AI on Fast Company's list of Most Innovative Companies in the World, Bidgely is putting customers at the center of the clean energy future.

Responsibilities

• Architect and evolve an org structure designed to scale from $40M to $100M+ ARR, enabling high ownership, throughput, and innovation.
• Hire, coach, and retain a world-class engineering and technical leadership bench, creating clear career paths and accountability systems.
• Continuously raise team quality by 10% year-over-year through data-driven performance management, strong peer review culture, and continuous improvement systems.
• Build a culture of high performance, autonomy, and transparency, with clear systems to reward excellence and address underperformance.
• Lead the planning, coordination, and execution of all engineering initiatives with clarity, urgency, and predictability.
• Ensure tight alignment between business objectives and engineering deliverables, with shared accountability on outcomes.
• Drive >90% sprint completion rates with 70%.
• Ensure all features and epics undergo design/architecture review, or are explicitly exempted with rationale.
• Establish engineering excellence standards for resilience, observability, performance, and security.
• Maintain zero SLA breaches through rigorous ops readiness, proactive monitoring, and blameless postmortems.
• Lead the engineering organization to deliver differentiated, high-impact technology solutions that advance our market position.
• Encourage bold thinking paired with pragmatic execution—bringing new ideas to life through experimentation, rapid prototyping, and system-level thinking.
• Directly own the AI and data science function, including algorithm strategy, model development, performance evaluation, and MLOps maturity.
• Use AI and developer tooling to double engineering productivity over two years, combining strategic tooling, AI copilots, and process redesign.
• Foster a strong culture of technical exploration, staying ahead of evolving tools, frameworks, and architectural paradigms.
• Set high standards for measurement, visibility, and data-driven decision-making across engineering execution.
• Define and enforce a disciplined development lifecycle, with clear expectations around throughput, test coverage, design rigor, and quality.
• Ensure leadership and stakeholders have timely insight into execution health, risks, and dependencies—enabling alignment and confident decision-making.
• Partner with the CPO and CRO to jointly own end-to-end execution and delivery across the company, minimizing operational dependence on the CEO.
• Play a central role in company-wide prioritization and resource allocation decisions, ensuring alignment between strategic goals and technical investments.
• Maintain a cost-conscious culture, achieving $1M/year in AWS savings through architecture discipline, usage control, and tooling efficiency.
• Be the steward of Bidgely's technical architecture, ensuring it evolves with scale, supports multiple product lines, and enables long-term flexibility.
• Codify and elevate engineering best practices—CI/CD automation, design principles, observability, API strategy, cloud governance, and more.
• Align all engineering efforts to business KPIs, customer outcomes, and product differentiators.
• Lead from the front to ensure Bidgely is recognized as the technical and operational benchmark in the utility AI space.

Requirements

• 15+ years of engineering and product experience, including 5+ years in senior leadership.
• Proven track record of driving innovation and delivering mission-critical software.
• Experience scaling teams and systems in fast-paced, high-growth environments.
• Strong technical depth and strategic vision.
• Ability to navigate architectural decisions, infrastructure challenges, and AI adoption.
• Operational discipline in product and engineering.
• Experience in building high-trust, high-performance teams.
• Customer-obsessed with a focus on user experience and business value.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance coverage from day one
• HSA, FSA and DCFSA plans
• Unlimited and Flexible Paid Time Off
• Annual wellness stipend
• Annual professional development stipend
• 401(k)
• 6 Weeks Paid Parental Leave
• Access to wellness resources through InsightTimer
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with support for your whole family
• Opportunity to grow with a startup - we offer stock options!
• Opportunity to work within a passionate team united by the goal of a clean energy future
• We provide the tools you need to execute your role including home office set up
• Discounts on movie tickets, technology, pet insurance and more!
• Flexible working arrangements