Chief Technology Officer

About the CompanyOn behalf of an international technology group, we are searching for an exceptional Chief Technology Officer(human) to shape the next generation of AI-native products. Our client operates at the bleeding edge of AI innovation, developing proactive applications that understand context, anticipate user needs and execute complex, real-world tasks with minimal prompting. Its technology is designed around persistent context, reliable long-running workflows and the practical application of advanced AI at global scale. Backed by significant resources and international ambition, the Group is building products with the potential to fundamentally change how billions of people interact with everyday applications such as email, notes, tasks and calendars.About the RoleThe Chief Technology Officer will define and lead the technology strategy, architecture and engineering standards across the Group. This is not a purely managerial or advisory CTO position. We are looking for a deeply technical leader who can operate across multiple products and businesses while remaining close to architecture, systems and engineering execution. The CTO will review critical systems and code, challenge technical decisions at implementation level and establish the foundations required to build faster, scale reliably and maintain world-class engineering standards.ResponsibilitiesDefine and execute the Group’s global technology and architecture strategy.Own major architectural and infrastructure decisions across products and platforms.Review critical systems, architecture, infrastructure and code directly.Establish engineering standards across reliability, security, performance, testing, observability and code quality.Identify technical debt, architectural limitations and scaling risks, and drive their resolution.Improve engineering productivity, development velocity and production reliability.Determine where platforms, infrastructure, tooling and technical capabilities should be shared across Group businesses.Lead technical reviews of new products, systems and strategic AI initiatives.Strengthen incident management, operational resilience and engineering accountability.Recruit, assess and develop exceptional senior engineers, technical leads and engineering leaders.Partner closely with founders, product leaders and executives to translate ambitious business goals into technical execution.QualificationsA deep software engineering background with a strong track record of building and scaling complex production systems.Required SkillsExtensive knowledge of backend systems, APIs, databases, cloud infrastructure and distributed systems.Experience defining technical direction across multiple products, platforms or engineering organisations.Exceptional architectural judgement and the ability to evaluate trade-offs across speed, scalability, reliability, security and maintainability.The technical depth to challenge engineering decisions at both architecture and implementation level.Experience building world-class engineering teams and raising technical standards across an organisation.Strong familiarity with modern AI infrastructure, AI-native product development and the demands of deploying intelligent systems at scale.The ability to move confidently between long-term technology strategy and immediate engineering challenges.A pragmatic, execution-oriented leadership style with a high degree of ownership.Continued technical fluency: you remain comfortable reviewing code, investigating incidents, evaluating architecture and working directly with engineering teams.Preferred SkillsWhat Success Looks Like: The Group has a clear, scalable and coherent global technology strategy. Engineering teams make faster and better architectural decisions. Shared platforms and infrastructure create leverage across businesses without introducing unnecessary complexity. Reliability, security and engineering quality improve measurably. Technical debt and scaling risks are identified early and addressed systematically. The organisation attracts and develops exceptional technical talent. Technology becomes a sustained competitive advantage across the Group.