Chief Technology Officer

Role Overview

• Own the end‑to‑end technical direction for Growth Signals, encompassing application architecture, APIs, infrastructure, integrations, data platforms, and AI systems.
• Define and execute a technology roadmap aligned with enterprise customer requirements, security expectations, and company growth objectives.
• Lead the engineering and product organizations with clear ownership and accountability.
• Establish and maintain a disciplined engineering operating model covering planning, execution, testing, release management, and post‑deployment support.
• Make architectural decisions that ensure scalability, reliability, and maintainability across distributed systems and multi‑tenant SaaS environments.
• Drive platform reliability and operational excellence, including observability, incident response, SLOs/SLAs, on‑call readiness, and post‑incident review processes.
• Own secure development standards and practices, including threat modeling, identity and access controls, data protection, dependency management, and API security.
• Lead enterprise security and compliance efforts, including SOC 2 readiness, audits, penetration testing, and customer security reviews.
• Partner closely with Product to evaluate technical feasibility, manage tradeoffs, and sequence delivery while controlling technical debt.
• Provide executive‑level technical leadership during complex enterprise deployments, escalations, and architecture reviews.
• Guide AI and automation initiatives (LLMs, GenAI workflows, agent frameworks) with an emphasis on reliability, evaluation, monitoring, and enterprise safety.
• Establish strong technical documentation, architectural decision records (ADRs), and knowledge‑sharing practices across teams.
• Serve as the executive technical authority for Growth Signals with customers, partners, auditors, and senior technical candidates.

Requirements

• 10+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering, with significant ownership of production systems at scale.
• 5+ years in senior technical leadership roles (CTO, VP Engineering, Director, or equivalent) with responsibility for architecture and delivery.
• Strong background designing and operating modern SaaS platforms, including APIs, distributed systems, and cloud-native architectures (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Proven experience delivering secure, reliable software to enterprise customers with high availability and compliance expectations.
• Deep understanding of software delivery discipline, including CI/CD, automated testing, release management, and operational readiness.
• Strong security mindset with experience supporting audits, enterprise security diligence, and risk management.
• Ability to translate complex and ambiguous business needs into clear technical strategy and execution plans.
• Excellent communication skills with engineering teams, executive leadership, and enterprise stakeholders.

Tech Stack

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