CTO - Proptech

A profitable, founder led SaaS platform with strong market traction is creating a hands-on Chief Technology Officer to lead the next stage of its global growth and create and implement a new AI startegy within the business.The business has built a powerful cloud based platform used across thousands of buildings and facilities, helping managers, owners and tenants streamline daily operations. With strong traction across Australia and New Zealand, the next phase is international expansion and platform scale.This role will combine technical leadership with real hands on engineering.In the early stage you will remain close to the code while shaping the technology strategy that supports the company’s next decade of growth.During the first year the role will be split roughly 50 percent hands on engineering and architecture and 50 percent leadership and strategy.ResponsibilitiesOwning technology strategy and execution at an executive and board levelWriting and shipping production code alongside the engineering teamPartnering with the Tech Lead on architecture decisions and technical roadmapImproving development velocity, reliability and platform scalabilityLeading technical hiring and helping grow the engineering teamDriving improvements across CI CD, testing, monitoring and delivery processesPreparing the platform and engineering function for international scaleMentoring and developing both onshore and offshore engineering teamsCandidates Should Have8+ years software engineering experience with at least 3 years in senior technical leadershipExperience scaling SaaS products in startup or scale up environmentsAbility to balance hands on coding with leadership and strategic responsibilitiesStrong communication skills and experience presenting to founders or boardsExperience managing or working with distributed engineering teamsComfortable working in a fast paced, collaborative office based environmentAny experience with PHP, Laravel and Angular, AWS infrastructure and modern deployment practices, working with offshore engineering teams and an interest in AI powered engineering tools that improve development velocity$200-220K +superFor more information please contact Steve Grace