Chief Technology Officer

Bjak • Madison, MS

12d

About The Position

The CTO will own technology strategy, architecture and engineering standards across the Group. This is a technical leadership role for someone who can operate across multiple businesses while remaining close to systems, architecture and engineering execution.

Requirements

• Deep software engineering background with experience building and scaling production systems.
• Strong knowledge of backend systems, APIs, databases, cloud infrastructure and distributed systems.
• Experience making architecture decisions across multiple products or engineering teams.
• Strong technical judgement and ability to challenge engineering decisions at implementation level.
• Capable of building world-class engineering teams.
• Still technically hands-on - able to review code, architecture, incidents and difficult engineering problems directly.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture and major technical decisions across group products and platforms.
• Review critical systems, architecture, infrastructure and code directly.
• Set engineering standards across reliability, security, performance, testing and code quality.
• Identify technical debt and architecture constraints and drive their resolution.
• Improve engineering productivity, development speed and production reliability.
• Decide where technology and infrastructure should be shared across Group businesses.
• Recruit and assess senior engineers, technical leads and engineering leaders.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: No Education Listed