CTO - Product-Driven, Cloud-Native SaaS Leader

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

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.