Chief Technology Officer

Vitec Tietomitta Oy; Helsinki; Hybrid; EUR 180,000 - 290,000; Full time

Job summary

Vitec Tietomitta Oy seeks a Chief Technology Officer to own the Engineering organization and partner with leadership on product strategy. The role combines hands-on credibility with executive responsibility for architecture, quality, and roadmap alignment.

You will lead architecture across frontend, backend, data, and Kubernetes, while driving standards and multi-market scaling for our cloud-native SaaS in the circular economy space.

Qualifications

• Senior engineering leadership track record in a B2B SaaS company.
• Hands-on engineering credibility with architectural reasoning.
• Experience taking a product from single-market to multi-market scale.
• Familiarity with cloud-native, service-oriented systems in Kubernetes.
• Modern stack such as Python / FastAPI, React frontends, relational data at scale.
• Ownership of engineering quality: automated testing, observability, CI/CD as defaults.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture across frontend, backend, data, and Kubernetes platform.
• Set engineering standards for testability, observability, and quality.
• Drive security, resilience, and data protection for regulated data.
• Make build-vs-buy decisions and shape AI usage in development.
• Lead engineering leadership, hiring, and team structure.

Skills

CTO track record

Hands-on coding

Product-to-market scaling

Cloud-native

Kubernetes

Python/FastAPI

React frontends

Relational data at scale

Automated testing

Observability

CI/CD

Tools

Bitbucket Pipelines

Job description

At Vitec Tietomitta, we're looking for a Chief Technology Officer to own the Engineering organization and to act as a genuine product partner within the leadership team. We look for a technology leader who works alongside our Head of Product: a CTO or (S)VP Engineering who has grown real product judgment, shipping against a real market. In our domain, technical decisions are product decisions.

Our platform is a cloud-native SaaS product (React / Next.js, Material UI, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, on Kubernetes) supporting ERP and operational workflows in the circular economy and waste management domain, where logistics, regulatory constraints, and data-intensive processes meet. Reliability and long-term maintainability matter more than short-lived feature velocity, and our automation-driven, AI-assisted workflow shifts leadership away from throughput management toward people, architecture, and the quality of fast decisions.

This is an executive role, but not a distant one: you set technical direction, share accountability for the commercial outcome, and stay close enough to the work to open a PR or be genuinely useful in a customer conversation. Knowledge of the waste and circular economy industry is welcome but not mandatory.

What You'll Own

Technology

• Architecture direction across frontend, backend services, data, and the Kubernetes platform
• Engineering standards: testability by design, observability, CI/CD (Bitbucket Pipelines), and pragmatic quality practices
• Security, resilience, and data protection appropriate to regulated operational data
• Technology and build-vs-buy decisions, including how AI is used in the development workflow

Organization

• Leadership of the engineering organization: hiring, structure, and team topology
• Developing engineering managers and tech leads into decision-makers
• Executive-level communication with the CEO, leadership team, board, and key customers
• Budget, vendor, and capacity planning for the technology function

How You'll Work with Product

• You spend time with operators and bring what you learn back into technical decisions, surfacing feasibility, cost, and risk early so the roadmap is sequenced with trade-offs visible rather than discovered late
• You lead your team to give the business a grounded view of what the platform can deliver and by when - and your work is judged by adoption, retention, and operational impact rather than delivery volume

What You Bring

Technology Leadership

• A senior engineering leadership track record, CTO, VP Engineering, or equivalent, in a B2B SaaS product company
• Hands-on engineering credibility earned in code; you can reason about architecture trade-offs without translation and review code easily
• Experience taking a product from single-market success to multi-market or multi-tenant scale, ideally where an ERP-style platform is the customers' operational system of record
• Familiarity with cloud-native, service-oriented systems in Kubernetes or comparable environments, and with a modern stack like ours (Python / FastAPI, React-based frontends, relational data at scale)
• Demonstrated ownership of engineering quality: automated testing, observability, and CI/CD as defaults rather than initiatives

Product Thinking

• You think about the product being made, not only the technology making it
• You can talk with a customer and come back with a sharper problem statement, not a feature list

Leadership Approach

• You lead through clarity and decisions rather than process weight, and treat product and engineering as one system
• You coach and grow the leaders around you, and you are curious about how AI-assisted development changes both what we build and how we build it

Nice to Have

• Background in platform engineering, SRE, or data-intensive systems
• Experience integrating AI capabilities into a production product with real reliability constraints
• Board or investor reporting experience

Practicalities

• Fluent English is the working language of the engineering team; Finnish is a strong plus but not strictly required
• Hybrid model: approximately 3 days per week at our office in Pasila, Helsinki, a 5-minute walk from Pasila train station

What Success Looks Like

• Product, engineering, and commercial leadership work from one roadmap, so delivery is predictable enough for the business to plan around
• Architecture and product direction move together
• Engineering leaders make good decisions without escalation, and AI-assisted development improves throughput and quality together

Why Join

• Full ownership of technology and a real voice in product decisions, with a seat at the executive table and direct influence on company strategy
• Work on software that supports real operational systems in the circular economy
• A pragmatic engineering culture focused on long-term quality rather than delivery theatre
• Experienced engineers who value ownership and practical solutions

Interested?

If you have any questions about the role, feel free to contact Tuomas Tokola, CEO.

About the Business Unit: Vitec Tietomitta

Tietomitta delivers innovative software solutions for the waste management and circular economy industry. Our systems provide customers with tools to improve efficiency and meet regulatory requirements- helping them work smarter and more sustainably.

About Vitec Software Group

Vitec is a leading provider of Vertical Software and has its origin and headquarters in Umeå, Sweden. Our products have been developed to meet specific needs within various niche markets in society. The expertise of our employees, combined with our shared corporate culture and business model, enable continuous improvement and innovation. We grow through the successes of our business units, as well as through acquisitions. Everything we do is based on a long-term perspective. Because we are to rely on - today and tomorrow. Vitec has 1,870 employees, is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm and had net sales of SEK 3,633 million in 2025. Read more at vitecsoftware.com.