296 Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Jobs - September 2026

Sitemate is seeking a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to lead technical direction and engineering execution across the business. This hands-on executive role involves building systems that transform the company’s technology strategy into reality, alongside a team of highly skilled engineers. The ideal candidate has experience guiding engineering through growth and change, with strong opinions on team structuring and ownership. Located in Melbourne, Australia, this hybrid role will require two days in the office, allowing for collaboration while providing flexibility.

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ValPay, a subsidiary of Valsoft, is seeking a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to lead its technology organization. Founded in 2022, ValPay aims to empower partners’ software platforms with a comprehensive payment solution. The CTO will collaborate with the CEO to structure a growing team and enhance ValPay's engineering and product capabilities. Responsibilities include managing technology strategy, overseeing portfolio alignment with company goals, and driving AI adoption. Ideal candidates have a strong background in fintech and experience building technology organizations in high-growth environments.

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📋 DESCRIPTION (About Norbloc + Why This Role Matters + What You'll Own) Norbloc builds the trust infrastructure behind modern financial compliance. Our RegTech and blockchain platform powers Know Your Customer (KYC) and secure data-sharing for banks, financial institutions and government bodies, replacing slow, fragmented, manual onboarding with a shared, distributed-ledger-backed ecosystem that regulators, banks and customers can all rely on. Our clients are not forgiving of shortcuts: systemic banks, regulators and government bodies across Europe and the Middle East operate under some of the strictest security, resilience and compliance standards in the industry. Building for them means every architectural choice has to hold up under real scrutiny. We're now looking for a Chief Technology Officer to take that foundation and scale it, leading technology through Norbloc's next phase of growth. Why This Role Matters Now Norbloc sits where two worlds meet: the pace and ambition of blockchain and data innovation versus the risk tolerance of enterprise banking. Few technology leaders are fluent in both. This role exists to be that bridge, someone who can architect for scale and security, lead engineering teams through rapid growth and sit across the table from a bank's CIO or a regulator's compliance officer and speak their language fluently. This is a board-level seat with real ownership: over architecture, over the technology organization and over how Norbloc is perceived by the institutions that matter most to our growth. What You'll Own Technology Strategy Architecture Set Norbloc's end-to-end technology strategy and multi-quarter roadmap, in step with company vision and enterprise client needs Architect secure, cloud-native systems that bridge banking-grade infrastructure with blockchain/DLT, cryptography and modern data and AI capabilities Own the platform's operating model, including SLAs, observability, incident response and on-call practices, to a standard that satisfies regulated financial clients, not just internal targets Make build-vs-buy and vendor/platform calls backed by clear-eyed cost, scalability and governance analysis. Be willing to defend the "boring" choice when it's the right one Data, Governance Compliance Build the data governance, lineage, metadata and quality foundations that make the platform auditable and trustworthy at scale Own technology risk management and IT governance, including compliance with KYC/AML, data residency and audit requirements across our operating jurisdictions Work with Compliance and external legal counsel so that technical decisions are made with regulatory consequences already priced in, not discovered afterward Team Delivery Leadership Lead, mentor and scale Engineering, Data, DevOps and QA, building strong managers under you, not just individual contributors Instill the delivery discipline that enterprise clients expect: code quality, CI/CD, testing rigor, predictable roadmaps Take ownership of any externally delivered components and bring them fully in-house where it makes sense to do so Executive Client Engagement Be Norbloc's senior technical voice to C-level executives, IT leadership and compliance officers at bank and government clients Represent Norbloc's technology vision to investors, partners and prospective enterprise clients Translate technical trade-offs (cost, risk, scalability) into terms a systemic bank's leadership can act on with confidence

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About Freedom Freedom Digital Bank France will form part of Freedom Holding Corp. , a diversified international financial services group publicly listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the ticker FRHC. The Group operates across Europe, the United States and Central Asia, with activities spanning banking, brokerage, investment services, insurance, payments and digital consumer services. About the role We are looking for an experienced Chief Technology Officer to define and lead the technology strategy of Freedom Digital Bank France. The CTO will be responsible for technology architecture, infrastructure, engineering, cybersecurity, data governance, IT operations and digital transformation. The role will work closely with the wider Freedom Holding Corp. technology organisation to develop a secure, resilient and scalable digital banking platform. As a member of the founding executive team, the CTO will contribute to the bank’s regulatory authorisation, establishment and launch in France. The successful candidate will ensure that the technology environment meets applicable French and EU regulatory, cybersecurity, data-protection and operational-resilience requirements. Key responsibilities: Define and execute the technology strategy for Freedom Digital Bank France. Design and maintain a secure, scalable and resilient technology architecture. Lead infrastructure, cloud, engineering, integration and IT operations initiatives. Ensure the availability, performance and security of digital banking platforms. Establish IT governance, technology controls and architecture standards. Oversee cybersecurity, information security and technology risk management programmes. Ensure compliance with financial-sector technology requirements and operational resilience requirements. Implement effective ICT incident detection, incident response, recovery and regulatory reporting processes. Develop business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities. Support the development and launch of digital banking products and customer journeys. Partner with Product, Operations, Risk, Compliance and Business teams. Oversee technology outsourcing and relationships with cloud providers, vendors and strategic partners. Manage technology budgets, resources and delivery priorities. Build and develop high-performing technology teams. Support the preparation of technology, cybersecurity and outsourcing documentation required for the regulatory authorisation process. Drive automation, innovation and continuous improvement across the bank.

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The CTO will drive the group’s technology vision, strategy, and execution. As a key member of the executive team, the CTO will lead the digital transformation journey, enhance technological capabilities across all business units, and ensure that technology aligns with overall business goals, enhancing operational efficiency and customer engagement. Technology Strategy Vision • Define and execute the group’s technology roadmap in alignment with strategic business goals. • Champion digital transformation across all business units, including automotive retail, aftersales, mobility services, and logistics. • Monitor and evaluate emerging technologies and innovations that can improve business performance. Leadership Management • Lead and develop the IT and digital teams, fostering a high-performance, agile, and innovative culture. • Collaborate with other executives to integrate technology into all areas of the organization, from customer service to operations and finance. • Oversee the management and development of enterprise-wide systems, platforms, and infrastructure. Digital Transformation Innovation • Drive the implementation of ERP, CRM, data analytics, and customer experience platforms across brands. • Oversee the development of digital products and e-commerce platforms that enhance customer journey. • Lead smart mobility, connectivity, and AI-driven initiatives aligned with industry trends. Cybersecurity Risk Management • Ensure the reliability, security, and compliance of IT systems and data. • Develop and maintain robust cybersecurity policies, risk management strategies, and disaster recovery plans. Vendor Budget Management • Manage relationships with external technology vendors and service providers. • Optimize the technology budget, ensuring cost-effectiveness and strategic investments.

Posted 2 weeks ago

Travoom seeks a hands-on CTO who is deeply involved in building and shaping a next-generation football-focused social network and messaging platform, OleOle. This role requires strong engineering judgment and the ability to navigate between various technical domains while spearheading product architecture and development. You will play a critical role in defining the company's long-term technical vision and may evolve into a co-founder-level position. The ideal candidate has significant startup experience and a strong background in Rust, real-time systems, and high-performance architecture.

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As CTO, you will be the technical leader of the business, working closely with the founders to shape our product and technology strategy as we scale from Series A towards Series B. You will lead our 6-person engineering team in India, while remaining sufficiently hands-on and responsible for the architecture, performance, and roadmap of Nina and Trace, and for building the engineering organization behind them whilst staying close enough to the code and models to make sharp technical calls. Key responsibilities Own the company’s technology and AI strategy, including the end-to-end technical vision and architecture for Nina and Trace. Lead, mentor and scale the distributed engineering team, establishing the culture, standards, processes and hiring strategy needed for the next stage of growth. Drive the evolution and performance of Nina and Trace, improving agent accuracy, reliability, latency, cost and scalability. Establish robust approaches to AI agent evaluation, orchestration, safety reliability. Design and scale the underlying data pipelines, integrations, verification workflows and infrastructure supporting the agents. Own technology practices around data privacy, security and responsible AI, particularly for sensitive candidate and background-check data. Translate product, customer and commercial priorities into a clear technical roadmap and execution plan, working closely with founders, product and go-to-market teams. Make strategic architecture, technology, build-vs-buy and model-vs-API decisions to optimise long-term capability, cost and scalability. Shape the future technology organisation, including team structure, engineering processes and talent strategy. Represent technology and engineering with customers, partners, the board and investors as required.

Posted 3 weeks ago

PSG Global Solutions is Hiring! PSG is the world’s largest and fastest growing provider of outsourced recruiting support to the global staffing and recruiting industry, with over 20% of the top 100 staffing companies utilizing our service today. Our recruiting centers are based in the Philippines, the preferred offshore location for supporting the US and global English speaking countries. PSG combines the cost advantages of an offshore delivery model with the high-performance approach of a top-tier staffing company to deliver value to its clients. As with any high-performance business, having a strong and highly motivated team is critical to our success. PSG invests heavily in our people, as evidenced by our employee satisfaction score consistently exceeding 90% (we measure it every month). Privacy Notice We, at PSG Global Solutions, LLC (a Teleperformance company), are committed to respecting your privacy and the protection of your personal data. 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Job Description Position Summary The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) defines and executes PSG Global Solutions’ enterprise technology, artificial intelligence, and innovation strategy. The role leads PSG’s transition to an AI-first operating model—turning emerging technologies into secure, scalable products and operational capabilities that improve recruiting outcomes, increase productivity, and generate measurable value for clients. As a member of the executive leadership team, the CTO connects corporate strategy, product innovation, enterprise technology, data, cybersecurity, and operational transformation. The position partners with leaders across operations, client services, sales, finance, human resources, compliance, and global delivery to strengthen PSG’s competitive position as a technology-enabled recruitment and workforce-solutions provider. Key Responsibilities Vision to Execution Lead the delivery and continued evolution of PSG’s AI-first operating model. Translate enterprise strategy into executable technology, product, data, and automation roadmaps. Lead the development and launch of Anna AI, PSG’s production-grade generative voice AI platform. Embed AI capabilities throughout PSG’s recruiting and service-delivery operations. Ensure technology investments produce measurable improvements in client outcomes, operational productivity, revenue, and profitability. AI Strategy and Product Innovation Lead PSG’s AI-first operating model and multiyear technology roadmap. Direct the development and evolution of Anna AI, PSG’s production-grade generative voice AI platform. Transform AI pilots into scalable products that automate candidate engagement, screening, interviewing, scheduling, onboarding, and compliance workflows. Establish responsible-AI standards covering accuracy, bias, transparency, privacy, security, and human oversight. Measure technology investments through productivity, client outcomes, revenue contribution, and return on investment. Architecture and Integration Lead PSG’s Rapid Build and Integration framework for orchestrating agentic AI workflows. Enable integrations with applicant-tracking systems, HR platforms, client systems, and best-in-class specialist applications. Define enterprise architecture, data exchange, testing, deployment, reliability, and documentation standards. Evaluate build, buy, and partnership opportunities based on strategic value, scalability, speed, cost, and risk. Data and Evidence-Based Leadership Establish an enterprise data and analytics strategy supporting AI, operational decisions, client reporting, and workforce intelligence. Partner with leading research institutions, including the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, to scientifically evaluate AI’s impact on hiring efficiency. Use controlled experiments and operational data to validate new solutions before large-scale deployment. Translate research findings into product improvements, client insights, and market thought leadership. Enterprise Technology and Risk Oversee PSG’s enterprise platforms, cloud environment, corporate applications, technology services, and client integrations. Lead cybersecurity, data privacy, technology risk, incident response, business continuity, and regulatory compliance. Ensure technology platforms remain secure, reliable, scalable, and cost-effective. Manage technology budgets, strategic vendors, licensing, and investment priorities. Executive and Organizational Leadership Advise the CEO, executive team, and board on technology opportunities, investments, and risks. Partner with operations, sales, and client leaders to develop differentiated technology-enabled services. Build and lead global teams across AI, product, data, architecture, cybersecurity, integration, and technology operations. Promote a culture of experimentation, responsible innovation, disciplined execution, and measurable results. Measures of Success Adoption and business impact of Anna AI and related products Recruiter productivity and operational-capacity improvements Revenue, margin, and client-retention contribution from technology Successful conversion of AI pilots into scaled products Improvements in time-to-fill, cost-per-hire, and service quality Platform reliability, integration performance, and user satisfaction Security, privacy, compliance, and audit results Return on technology and innovation investments Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in technology, engineering, business, or a related field; an advanced degree is preferred. Significant executive leadership experience in technology, AI, digital transformation, product innovation, or enterprise architecture. Demonstrated success taking AI and automation solutions from pilot through enterprise-scale adoption. Experience with generative AI, voice AI, agentic automation, cloud platforms, integrations, data architecture, and cybersecurity. Experience in recruitment, staffing, RPO, BPO, healthcare services, or another technology-enabled service industry is preferred. Proven ability to lead global teams, manage significant investments, and communicate effectively with clients, executives, and boards. Equal Opportunity Employment All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against based on race. color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, age, pregnancy, genetic information or any other consideration prohibited by law or contract. Compliance with Disability Laws It is the policy of PSG Global Solutions that qualified individuals with disabilities not be discriminated against because of their disabilities in regard to job application procedures, hiring, and other terms and conditions of employment. It is also our policy to provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in all aspects of the employment process. We are prepared to modify or adjust the job application process or the job or work environment to make reasonable accommodations to the known physical or mental limitations of the applicant or employee to enable the applicant or employee to be considered for the position he or she desires, to perform the essential functions of the position in question, or to enjoy equal benefits and privileges of employment as are enjoyed by other similarly situated employees without disabilities, unless the accommodation will impose an undue hardship. 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However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-I.35(c)

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This role is part of our Prerender team, one of our largest brands at saas.group . Prerender is a dynamic rendering SaaS platform within the saas.group portfolio. Since 2017, we've revolutionized SEO practices by enabling search engines to crawl JavaScript-heavy sites seamlessly while preserving user experience. Thousands of companies worldwide trust our platform, which serves over 2.7 billion unique pages to web crawlers and drives results for enterprises and growing businesses alike. Profile Overview Prerender has built a platform that thousands of companies trust to serve billions of pages to web crawlers. Now we're evolving into something bigger: the layer that makes the web legible to machines, both the search crawlers that have always mattered and the AI systems that increasingly decide what people find. To get there, we need to transform how we build product. We're looking for a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to lead that transformation, shifting our engineering organization from infrastructure-optimization to a high-velocity, product-focused team that moves fast and ships features that matter. This is a building role, not a caretaker role. You'll own the technology vision, set the engineering strategy, and have authority over the R D budget, team, and technical direction. You'll embed AI-first engineering practices, make smart infrastructure tradeoffs, and build the improvement motion that makes delivery faster and keeps it that way. You'll lead a small, senior engineering team — around seven engineers today — supported by shared platform and DevOps resources from saas.group 's central team. There is no management layer between you and the engineers, which puts you close to the work and means the leadership has to come from you. So we need someone hands-on enough to augment the team, not to manage it from a distance, and who can do that without losing hold of the strategy and the responsibilities only this role carries. We need deep technical expertise, a strong infrastructure background, and a proven track record of transforming engineering teams at SaaS companies. Your responsibilities Technology Vision and Strategy: Own the technology vision, roadmap, and engineering strategy for Prerender. Align engineering work with business objectives and customer value. Lead adoption of AI-assisted development tooling to multiply team productivity; own the quality bar for what it produces. Drive architecture and infrastructure decisions with a holistic view of TCO that includes maintenance burden and engineering opportunity cost, not just hosting spend. Run a multi-region, Kubernetes-based render fleet efficiently: cost per render, reliability, and the operational hygiene that keeps both from drifting. Represent Prerender's technical capabilities to customers, partners, and the broader market. Maintain high standards of software quality, performance, security, and reliability. Track shifts in technology and engineering practice, and bring the ones that change how we build into the team. Security and Compliance: Own security and compliance as a standing program. Prerender completes SOC 2 Type II and its ISO 27001 certification decision at the end of 2026; you inherit the year-two observation period, the surveillance audit, and the operational discipline that keeps both credible. Keep the program legible to someone other than you: named owners, current vendor and auditor contacts, and no single point of failure. Team Management and Growth: Coach and mentor engineers to reach their full potential. Set clear expectations and create opportunities for growth. People matter here. Build a culture of ownership, where engineers carry their decisions through instead of escalating them. Foster diversity and inclusion within the engineering organization. Execution and Delivery: Own the continuous improvement motion of delivery. The team finds and removes its own bottlenecks on a regular cadence. Enhance DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and robust monitoring systems. Define and track engineering metrics that matter. Use data to identify bottlenecks and optimize workflows. Manage change deliberately. Changes to practice, process and infrastructure reach the people who have to run them — and, where customers are affected, the customers — with notice, consultation, and a route to raise a question before the change lands. Executive Partnership and Stakeholder Management: Partner with the CEO and leadership team on company strategy. Communicate technology progress to company leadership and the board. Work closely with Product to align engineering capacity with customer needs. Translate technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders and advocate for investments that drive business growth. Ownership Autonomy: Own the full R D budget including personnel, infrastructure, tooling, and vendor relationships. Run that budget as a managed number. Maintain an infrastructure cost model, report forecast against actual, and be able to say what a decision costs before it's made. Make the right decisions for engineering, aligned with company strategy, without second-guessing or micromanagement. What You bring to the table 10+ years in software engineering, with 5+ years in senior engineering leadership (VP/Director/CTO) at a SaaS company. Strong infrastructure background with experience running large-scale distributed systems and production Kubernetes, and making strategic tradeoffs between cost, maintenance burden, and engineering velocity. You've driven unit costs down on a fleet you owned. Demonstrated ability to embed AI tooling into engineering workflows and multiply team productivity , with a clear-eyed view of where it helps, where it produces plausible work that doesn't hold up, and how review standards survive the increase in volume. Proven experience coaching, mentoring, and developing engineering teams, ideally through a significant transformation. A track record of raising a team's delivery speed and keeping it raised long after the initial push, with the measurement and process change that made it stick. A record of landing process and platform change that sticks, with the people affected brought along before it landed. Experience owning a security and compliance program in a SaaS company — SOC 2, ISO 27001 or equivalent — as a continuing operational responsibility. Business-oriented and hands-on: you understand how engineering decisions connect to revenue and customer value, and you contribute directly alongside the team, through the same review and planning process as everyone else. Experience with scalable, high-performance web products, CI/CD, DevOps, and security principles. SEO or search-related experience is a plus. Excellent communication skills. Comfortable presenting to boards, working with executives, and collaborating cross-functionally. Communication is async-first in our remote environment, leaning on clear, timely updates with documentation up-to-date and readable and proactive context-sharing. What’s in it for You Ultimate flexibility: We're 100% remote. Work from wherever you like, whenever you like. Freedom and autonomy: High-trust environment with lots of independence to solve problems your way, with support when you need it. Minimum bureaucracy: We stay efficient and keep momentum sustainable. No death by meetings. Real impact: This is a C-level role with a seat at the executive table, board visibility, and the mandate to transform how we build product. Small friendly team: We help each other out, have fun, and don't take ourselves too seriously. Our network: Access to a community of SaaS professionals across the saas.group portfolio who regularly exchange ideas and expertise. Flexible time off: Recharge when you need to. Learning Budget: Generous budget for classes, conferences, books, and other learning resources. Prerender is part of saas.group , and we have a shared goal of succeeding together. What is saas.group? Think of us as the driving catalyst behind your favorite software success stories. saas.group, established in 2017, is on a mission to turbocharge promising B2B SaaS ventures, unlocking their full potential. As a Software-as-a-Service portfolio powerhouse, we specialize in acquiring small software treasures and polishing them into industry stars. With a dynamic, fully remote team of nearly 380+ colleagues spanning 50+ countries we are truly global and we are rewriting the playbook on SaaS innovation and collaboration. We grow 25 exciting brands under our umbrella. Feel free to explore our Candidate's Hub to get an insider's view, dive into our culture, gain valuable insights into our teams and how we work. Also, don’t forget to follow saas.group on LinkedIn to stay up-to-date on our job openings, podcast episodes, and with all things happening at our company. We don’t just simply offer you to “take a job with us” but rather to “join us on this journey” to build the world's largest platform of independent SaaS companies. Sounds like something you’re up for? Feel free to apply even if you don’t check all these boxes. We believe in the power of diversity and fresh perspectives to spice up our team. Your application might just be the missing ingredient! — saas.group is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. If you're passionate about working with a team that values innovation, excellence, and fairness, we encourage you to apply. We believe in fair and transparent pay. Salary ranges at saas.group are location-adjusted, targeting local market medians for a remote-first environment, and will be shared with our potential future employees in writing before your first interview - so you have everything you need to evaluate the opportunity.

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About Toptal Toptal is a global network of top talent in business, design, and technology that enables companies to scale their teams, on-demand. With $200+ million in annual revenue and team members based around the globe , Toptal is the world’s largest fully remote workforce . We take the best elements of virtual teams and combine them with a support structure that encourages innovation, social interaction, and fun. We see no borders, move at a fast pace, and are never afraid to break the mold. Position Description: As Chief Technology Officer, you will drive execution for the product and engineering teams and put AI at the core of everything the company builds. You will own Toptal’s full technical architecture and you will build it AI-first—utilizing best practices for agentic engineering. AI is not a workstream inside the engineer team—its core to it. You will create and own the AI architecture and best practices the rest of the company utilizes. You will also own the initiatives that put agents into production. You should know how to build and fine-tune foundation models from the ground up, how to engineer best-in-class harnesses, and how to create best practices for agentic engineering that engineering teams adopt to 10x their productivity—without sacrificing quality. Your mindset will be that of a builder and an architect, someone who solves problems in the system itself. No problem will be too large or too small for you to solve yourself. You will set the technical direction and hold the cadenced meetings that turns technical strategy into working, production-ready outcomes. You will be in the design reviews and in the code, not adjacent to them. You will move fast, and you will ensure our engineering team is never the reason an initiative slows down. You are the technical owner of all Toptal’s products. You will collaborate closely with Product to design infrastructure that exposes Toptal’s core business logic through modular interfaces the rest of the business can build on. Alongside a group of hands-on executives, your engineering discipline directly shapes Toptal’s growth, profitability, and operational excellence. You will own resourcing and workforce planning as a doer: scoping the work, sizing the teams, planning headcount against it, defining the role and the bar for every seat. None of that is beneath the role, and we are not interested in someone who thinks these tasks can be done properly by handing it off to HR. Hiring is the highest-leverage work you do, and we want someone who is visibly excited about hiring A-players—with a sense of urgency. Then, you lead the team. You will set the standards, develop people against those standards, and know exactly who is meeting those standards. You will be one of Toptal’s foremost experts on AI, and you will stay ahead of a field that never stops moving. You will coach engineers on agentic best practices, show the executive team what is newly possible with the new AI tooling, and push AI into every function at Toptal. This role runs on high-energy execution and attention to detail. You will bring urgency to every part of it and measure yourself on outcomes. We are not looking for someone to oversee this work. We are looking for someone to drive it and get into the detiwls. This is a remote position. Resumes and communication must be submitted in English. Responsibilities: The following information is intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, or required skills. One precondition runs through all of it: you conceive the strategy. You will form your own view of where engineering and AI should go, build the case, and bring the CEO a strategy to react to, not a request for direction. AI and agentic engineering Own Toptal’s AI technology strategy and the architecture beneath it: model selection and fine-tuning, harness design, orchestration, retrieval, context engineering, tool and MCP integration, guardrails, evaluation, and cost control, exposed as primitives every team composes against. Deploy agentic engineering at scale against the work that runs this business: matching, vetting, onboarding, delivery, and internal operations. Own the outcomes those agents are accountable for. Make AI quality measurable. Own the evals, the regression suites, and the review loops, so quality here is proven rather than claimed. Rebuild how the platform gets built and operated, raising output per engineer through AI-assisted development, review, testing, and operations. Engineers have to want this, not comply with it, and creating that pull is on you. Team, resourcing, and accountability Decide what a team should look like now that the roles have blurred, where the product manager believes they can design and code, the engineer believes they can do product and design, and the designer believes they can code and do product. Own resourcing and workforce planning: scope the roadmap into buildable work, plan headcount and sequence, write the specs, and hit time-sensitive hiring commitments. Own the bar for the team: assess talent honestly, develop people against the bar, and hold it as the organization grows. Platform and execution Own the architecture end to end, from services and data flows to interfaces and system boundaries, and hold the standards that keep it coherent as it grows. Own throughput, reliability, and the platform layer beneath them, including the AI-dependent paths where latency, drift, and provider outages are real failure modes. Own build-versus-buy, technical debt, secure-by-design architecture, responsible AI, and the engineering and AI cost structure down to inference and token spend. In the first week, expect to: Learn Toptal’s model and platform architecture, and meet the leaders you will depend on across Engineering, Product, Industries, and Services. Establish a direct, working rhythm with the CEO. In the first month, expect to: Assess the engineering function honestly, and assess AI maturity with it: what is really in production, what is measured, what is duplicated, and what should be shut down. Assess the team against the bar this role requires, and bring the executive team a strategy no one asked you for. In the first three months, expect to: Be executing your own plan, with a review cadence and clear accountability at every level, and your resourcing plan presented. Stand up the shared AI architecture and evals, and put one agentic workflow into production with a baseline and a measured result. In the first six months, expect to: Show business impact from agents in production in at least two core workflows, with the evidence behind it. Have the leadership team you need, with the bar visibly raised, and throughput and reliability moving on the paths that matter most. In the first year, expect to: Run an engineering organization recognized inside and outside Toptal as one of the most advanced in the industry, with the pull on AI now coming from engineering. Have AI leverage embedded in the architecture and the operating model, not living in a portfolio of pilots, and the team you built delivering against plan. Qualifications and Job Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field is required, and an advanced degree is strongly preferred. 15+ years of progressive engineering leadership, including significant time as a CTO or VP of Engineering, or as a direct report to one at meaningful scale. Deep, current, hands-on command of modern AI engineering: foundation models, agentic architectures, harness design, retrieval, context engineering, fine-tuning, and evaluation. You have shipped and operated these in production, and you know how to build and fine-tune foundation models from the ground up. Agentic systems deployed at scale against real business processes, with measured outcomes on cost, cycle time, quality, or revenue, and a record of retiring what did not work. Rigor about evaluation. You can explain precisely how you knew a model, prompt, or agent change was an improvement, and you can show the evidence. Command of the economics underneath it: model routing, hosted versus self-hosted, inference capacity, latency and cost budgets, and staying portable across providers. Further ahead on AI than the executives around you, able to teach it, and proven at moving an organization to adopt something it was not asking for. You create strategy rather than administer it, and you win arguments on evidence rather than authority, including your view on what a team should look like in the age of AI. Proven ownership of resourcing and workforce planning, and a hiring track record you can quantify. You have made the hard calls when someone was not clearing the bar. Currently hands-on. You read and write code, you can take apart a design document or an eval harness and find the flaw in it, and you command distributed systems, service architecture, data-intensive applications, and cloud infrastructure at scale. Experience scaling and modernizing a large existing codebase without stopping the business. You have replaced load-bearing systems in flight, not only built greenfield. Experience leading a globally distributed, remote team at a technology or hyper-growth company is required. A high-volume, two-sided marketplace or multi-tenant platform is a significant plus. Outstanding written and verbal communication skills. Speed, ownership, and quality. You move with urgency, decide without perfect information, and treat everything you deliver as a reflection of yourself. You must be a world-class individual contributor to thrive at Toptal. You will not be here just to tell other people what to do. About Toptal Toptal is a global network of top talent in business, design, and technology that enables companies to scale their teams, on-demand. With $200+ million in annual revenue and team members based around the globe , Toptal is the world’s largest fully remote workforce . We take the best elements of virtual teams and combine them with a support structure that encourages innovation, social interaction, and fun. We see no borders, move at a fast pace, and are never afraid to break the mold. Position Description: As Chief Technology Officer, you will drive execution for the product and engineering teams and put AI at the core of everything the company builds. You will own Toptal’s full technical architecture and you will build it AI-first—utilizing best practices for agentic engineering. AI is not a workstream inside the engineer team—its core to it. You will create and own the AI architecture and best practices the rest of the company utilizes. You will also own the initiatives that put agents into production. You should know how to build and fine-tune foundation models from the ground up, how to engineer best-in-class harnesses, and how to create best practices for agentic engineering that engineering teams adopt to 10x their productivity—without sacrificing quality. Your mindset will be that of a builder and an architect, someone who solves problems in the system itself. No problem will be too large or too small for you to solve yourself. You will set the technical direction and hold the cadenced meetings that turns technical strategy into working, production-ready outcomes. You will be in the design reviews and in the code, not adjacent to them. You will move fast, and you will ensure our engineering team is never the reason an initiative slows down. You are the technical owner of all Toptal’s products. You will collaborate closely with Product to design infrastructure that exposes Toptal’s core business logic through modular interfaces the rest of the business can build on. Alongside a group of hands-on executives, your engineering discipline directly shapes Toptal’s growth, profitability, and operational excellence. You will own resourcing and workforce planning as a doer: scoping the work, sizing the teams, planning headcount against it, defining the role and the bar for every seat. None of that is beneath the role, and we are not interested in someone who thinks these tasks can be done properly by handing it off to HR. Hiring is the highest-leverage work you do, and we want someone who is visibly excited about hiring A-players—with a sense of urgency. Then, you lead the team. You will set the standards, develop people against those standards, and know exactly who is meeting those standards. You will be one of Toptal’s foremost experts on AI, and you will stay ahead of a field that never stops moving. You will coach engineers on agentic best practices, show the executive team what is newly possible with the new AI tooling, and push AI into every function at Toptal. This role runs on high-energy execution and attention to detail. You will bring urgency to every part of it and measure yourself on outcomes. We are not looking for someone to oversee this work. We are looking for someone to drive it and get into the detiwls. This is a remote position. Resumes and communication must be submitted in English. Responsibilities: The following information is intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, or required skills. One precondition runs through all of it: you conceive the strategy. You will form your own view of where engineering and AI should go, build the case, and bring the CEO a strategy to react to, not a request for direction. AI and agentic engineering Own Toptal’s AI technology strategy and the architecture beneath it: model selection and fine-tuning, harness design, orchestration, retrieval, context engineering, tool and MCP integration, guardrails, evaluation, and cost control, exposed as primitives every team composes against. Deploy agentic engineering at scale against the work that runs this business: matching, vetting, onboarding, delivery, and internal operations. Own the outcomes those agents are accountable for. Make AI quality measurable. Own the evals, the regression suites, and the review loops, so quality here is proven rather than claimed. Rebuild how the platform gets built and operated, raising output per engineer through AI-assisted development, review, testing, and operations. Engineers have to want this, not comply with it, and creating that pull is on you. Team, resourcing, and accountability Decide what a team should look like now that the roles have blurred, where the product manager believes they can design and code, the engineer believes they can do product and design, and the designer believes they can code and do product. Own resourcing and workforce planning: scope the roadmap into buildable work, plan headcount and sequence, write the specs, and hit time-sensitive hiring commitments. Own the bar for the team: assess talent honestly, develop people against the bar, and hold it as the organization grows. Platform and execution Own the architecture end to end, from services and data flows to interfaces and system boundaries, and hold the standards that keep it coherent as it grows. Own throughput, reliability, and the platform layer beneath them, including the AI-dependent paths where latency, drift, and provider outages are real failure modes. Own build-versus-buy, technical debt, secure-by-design architecture, responsible AI, and the engineering and AI cost structure down to inference and token spend. In the first week, expect to: Learn Toptal’s model and platform architecture, and meet the leaders you will depend on across Engineering, Product, Industries, and Services. Establish a direct, working rhythm with the CEO. In the first month, expect to: Assess the engineering function honestly, and assess AI maturity with it: what is really in production, what is measured, what is duplicated, and what should be shut down. Assess the team against the bar this role requires, and bring the executive team a strategy no one asked you for. In the first three months, expect to: Be executing your own plan, with a review cadence and clear accountability at every level, and your resourcing plan presented. Stand up the shared AI architecture and evals, and put one agentic workflow into production with a baseline and a measured result. In the first six months, expect to: Show business impact from agents in production in at least two core workflows, with the evidence behind it. Have the leadership team you need, with the bar visibly raised, and throughput and reliability moving on the paths that matter most. In the first year, expect to: Run an engineering organization recognized inside and outside Toptal as one of the most advanced in the industry, with the pull on AI now coming from engineering. Have AI leverage embedded in the architecture and the operating model, not living in a portfolio of pilots, and the team you built delivering against plan. Qualifications and Job Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field is required, and an advanced degree is strongly preferred. 15+ years of progressive engineering leadership, including significant time as a CTO or VP of Engineering, or as a direct report to one at meaningful scale. Deep, current, hands-on command of modern AI engineering: foundation models, agentic architectures, harness design, retrieval, context engineering, fine-tuning, and evaluation. You have shipped and operated these in production, and you know how to build and fine-tune foundation models from the ground up. Agentic systems deployed at scale against real business processes, with measured outcomes on cost, cycle time, quality, or revenue, and a record of retiring what did not work. Rigor about evaluation. You can explain precisely how you knew a model, prompt, or agent change was an improvement, and you can show the evidence. Command of the economics underneath it: model routing, hosted versus self-hosted, inference capacity, latency and cost budgets, and staying portable across providers. Further ahead on AI than the executives around you, able to teach it, and proven at moving an organization to adopt something it was not asking for. You create strategy rather than administer it, and you win arguments on evidence rather than authority, including your view on what a team should look like in the age of AI. Proven ownership of resourcing and workforce planning, and a hiring track record you can quantify. You have made the hard calls when someone was not clearing the bar. Currently hands-on. You read and write code, you can take apart a design document or an eval harness and find the flaw in it, and you command distributed systems, service architecture, data-intensive applications, and cloud infrastructure at scale. Experience scaling and modernizing a large existing codebase without stopping the business. You have replaced load-bearing systems in flight, not only built greenfield. Experience leading a globally distributed, remote team at a technology or hyper-growth company is required. A high-volume, two-sided marketplace or multi-tenant platform is a significant plus. Outstanding written and verbal communication skills. Speed, ownership, and quality. You move with urgency, decide without perfect information, and treat everything you deliver as a reflection of yourself. You must be a world-class individual contributor to thrive at Toptal. You will not be here just to tell other people what to do.

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At Inventi , we build payment infrastructure technology for payment service providers. Our payments platform connects customers to SEPA , SWIFT , TARGET2 , and other payment systems through a single API. We're looking for a Chief Technology Officer to set our technology direction and shape what we build next. Why this could be interesting for you There's no fixed roadmap waiting for you here - you'd build it yourself. You'd shape both the technology and the team, staying hands-on, on infrastructure banks and PSPs actually depend on. And you'd get real room to experiment with AI along the way. The role: Own our technology strategy and make the big architectural decisions. Drive AI adoption across engineering - make it part of how we build. Set the bar for technical quality and engineering standards. Own reliability, security, and technical risk across the platform. Build a delivery process the whole company can rely on. Drive company wide engineering culture and strive for quality, passion and learning. Be the technical voice with product, leadership, and key clients. Protect our fast-moving culture as we grow - build the kind of org you'd want to work in yourself. What you bring: Technical depth - you can challenge architecture decisions. AI is part of your daily toolkit - and something you've brought into your team's way of working. Experience owning reliability and uptime for systems that can't go down. You know how to handle a production incident with structure. A track record of building or scaling an engineering team, with a high bar for who joins it. You're comfortable in a fast-paced environment. Fluency in English. Fintech, payments, or regulated infrastructure experience is a plus. Our offer: Ownership: shape the technology strategy of a growing fintech company and have a direct impact on how we build, scale, and operate. Room to experiment: try new tools, new combinations, new ways of working. Continuous learning: access to courses, conferences, and books. Team culture: events, sports challenges, team-building. Flexible remote work: enjoy flexible hours and remote work options. Private health insurance and optional 3rd pillar pension contributions. Little perks that make a difference: pet-friendly office, snacks, free parking and a lot of ways to take a break - from board to digital. Gross salary starting from 8000 Eur/month, depending on experience. 🔓Unlock your value! Shape the technology behind payments for banks and PSPs across Europe.

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