Chief Technology Officer

Role Overview

• As the Chief Technology Officer at Rebtel, you will lead our global technology organization through its next phase of growth and transformation.
• You will scale teams, modernize how we build and deliver software, and ensure our platform remains secure, reliable, and ready for the future.
• You will guide safe modernization efforts while ensuring business continuity and operational stability.
• Define and execute the company-wide technology strategy aligned with business and product goals.
• Lead Rebtel’s AI vision, experimentation, and implementation, positioning the company as an early and practical AI adoption leader.
• Build and evolve a high-performing engineering organization, including leadership development and org design.
• Establish modern delivery models and clear ownership structures that enable predictable, high-quality execution.
• Ensure platform scalability, reliability, and operational excellence across legacy and modern systems.
• Drive technical modernization and systematically reduce technical debt without disrupting live production.
• Own cloud infrastructure, architecture, and high-availability production environments.
• Safeguard security, data protection, and compliance across all systems.
• Own the technology budget, workforce planning, and engineering cost efficiency.
• Partner with Product and Commercial leadership to ensure technology directly supports growth and customer value.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 5+ years leading engineering teams of 15+ engineers
• Experience managing engineering managers and building strong leadership layers
• Experience reporting to a CEO and executive team, and comfortable constructively challenging leadership and Board when needed
• Proven track record of hiring, scaling, and retaining high-performing engineering teams
• Experience of frontier AI dev tools, Cursor, Claude code and/or Codex. Understands MCP servers and how product, design and development work is being transformed by AI
• Experience owning a technology budget with P&L accountability and workforce planning
• Strong background in distributed systems and scalable architecture
• Experience designing and operating high-availability production systems
• Hands-on understanding of cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Experience improving CI/CD, DevOps practices, and overall engineering velocity
• Experience working with legacy systems and modernizing them safely while reducing technical debt
• Strong understanding of security, data protection, and compliance
• Demonstrated ability to improve system reliability and operational stability in live production environments
• Experience restructuring or modernizing an engineering organization, introducing clear ownership structures and engineering standards
• Demonstrated ability to move an organization from reactive firefighting to predictable, structured delivery
• Shares context openly and makes architecture visible and understandable across the company
• Encourages cross-team knowledge sharing and collaboration
• Coaches and develops engineering managers, setting clear performance expectations
• Builds a culture of accountability and ownership
• Calm under pressure and able to bring structure to ambiguity
• Structured, systems-oriented thinker with high integrity and low ego

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud
• Distributed Systems
• Google Cloud Platform

Benefits

• Pension Plan
• Health Checkups, Influenza shots and Private Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Occupational insurance
• Wellness allowance (5,000 SEK)
• Discount on gym memberships
• Bonus program
• Extra parental pay
• 30 days annual vacation
• Monday breakfasts
• Relocation Support