Chief Technology Officer

Jobgether SRL; France; Sur place; EUR 180 000 - 240 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

100% remote working

Executive level role

Autonomy and ownership

Flexible working

Learning budget

Collaborative global team

Résumé du poste

Jobgether SRL seeks a hands-on Chief Technology Officer based in France to lead a transforming SaaS engineering org. You will own the technology vision, architecture, and R&D budget, embedding AI-assisted development and driving security, compliance, and operational excellence.

You will guide a senior team, partner with executives and customers, and align engineering with product and business strategy while optimizing costs and reliability across multi-region infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering with 5+ years in senior leadership in SaaS.
• Proven ability to balance infrastructure cost, maintenance burden, quality, and velocity.
• Experience introducing AI tooling into engineering workflows to boost productivity.
• Experience transforming engineering teams and sustaining delivery improvements.

Responsabilités

• Own the technology vision, roadmap, and engineering strategy aligned with business goals.
• Lead a high-velocity, product-focused engineering organization.
• Introduce and scale AI-assisted development tools and practices with quality standards.
• Own architecture and infrastructure decisions including cost, debt, and efficiency.
• Oversee multi-region Kubernetes production environment for reliability and cost control.
• Monitor and optimize infrastructure economics while maintaining security and compliance.
• Maintain high standards for software quality, performance, security, and scalability.
• Represent technology to customers, partners, executives, and the board.
• Own the R&D budget and infrastructure-related investments.

Connaissances

Leadership

AI tooling

Strategic thinking

Stakeholder management

Mentoring

Outils

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Cloud infrastructure

DevOps

Observability

Security

Description du poste

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Chief Technology Officer based in France.

This is a hands-on C-level technology leadership role focused on transforming a SaaS engineering organization into a high-velocity, product-focused team.
You will own the technology vision, engineering strategy, R&D budget, technical direction, and infrastructure roadmap.
The role combines deep technical leadership with business strategy, people development, security, and operational excellence.
You’ll lead a small, senior engineering team while remaining close enough to the work to contribute directly when needed.
A major focus will be embedding AI-assisted development practices and building sustainable improvements in engineering productivity.
You’ll oversee large-scale distributed infrastructure, Kubernetes, DevOps, security, compliance, and cost optimization.
Working closely with executives, product leaders, customers, and the board, you’ll help shape how technology drives long-term business and customer value.

• Own the overall technology vision, roadmap, and engineering strategy, ensuring technical priorities remain closely aligned with business objectives and customer value.

• Lead the transformation toward a high-velocity, product-focused engineering organization that consistently delivers valuable features and improvements.

• Introduce and scale AI-assisted development tools and practices, establishing appropriate quality standards, review processes, and responsible usage across engineering workflows.

• Own architecture and infrastructure decisions with a holistic approach to total cost of ownership, balancing hosting costs, maintenance requirements, technical debt, and engineering opportunity costs.

• Oversee a multi-region, Kubernetes-based production environment, maintaining high standards for reliability, operational hygiene, performance, and cost efficiency.

• Monitor and optimize infrastructure economics, including unit costs and cost per render, while maintaining the reliability and scalability required by a high-volume SaaS platform.

• Maintain high standards across software quality, performance, security, scalability, and reliability.

• Track emerging technologies and changes in engineering practices, identifying innovations that can meaningfully improve how products are built and delivered.

• Represent the technology organization with customers, partners, executives, board members, and other external stakeholders.

• Own security and compliance as an ongoing operational program, including maintaining certification readiness, audit processes, ownership structures, and organizational resilience.

• Guide and mentor engineers, establish clear expectations, support career development, and foster a culture of ownership, accountability, diversity, and inclusion.

• Build an environment where engineers take responsibility for their technical decisions and continuously identify and resolve delivery bottlenecks.

• Own the continuous improvement cycle for engineering delivery, using measurable outcomes to identify constraints and improve development speed over time.

• Strengthen DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, observability, monitoring, and operational processes.

• Define meaningful engineering metrics and use data to improve workflows, delivery performance, infrastructure efficiency, and team effectiveness.

• Lead organizational and technical changes thoughtfully, ensuring affected teams and customers receive appropriate communication, context, and opportunities to raise concerns before changes are implemented.

• Partner with the CEO and broader leadership team on company strategy and communicate technology progress, priorities, risks, and investments to executive and board-level stakeholders.

• Collaborate closely with Product to align engineering capacity and priorities with customer needs and commercial objectives.

• Translate complex technical concepts into clear business language and advocate for technology investments that support growth and customer value.

• Own the complete R&D budget, including personnel, infrastructure, tooling, vendors, and other technology-related investments.

• Maintain accurate infrastructure cost models and forecasts, monitor actual spending against plans, and understand the financial implications of major technical decisions.

• Operate with a high degree of autonomy, making sound engineering decisions without unnecessary micromanagement while remaining aligned with company strategy.

Requirements:

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 5+ years in senior engineering leadership positions such as VP Engineering, Director of Engineering, or CTO within a SaaS environment.

• Strong infrastructure expertise, including experience operating large-scale distributed systems and production Kubernetes environments.

• Demonstrated ability to make strategic tradeoffs between infrastructure costs, maintenance burden, technical quality, and engineering velocity.

• Experience managing and optimizing infrastructure unit economics for a production platform or comparable large-scale system.

• Proven ability to introduce AI tooling into engineering workflows and meaningfully improve team productivity while maintaining appropriate standards for quality, security, review, and reliability.

• Demonstrated experience transforming engineering teams and establishing improvements in delivery speed that remain sustainable beyond an initial transformation period.

• Strong track record of implementing new engineering processes, platforms, or ways of working and successfully bringing the affected teams along through the change.

• Experience owning or leading an ongoing SaaS security and compliance program, with exposure to SOC 2, ISO 27001, or an equivalent framework.

• Strong understanding of scalable, high-performance web products, CI/CD, DevOps, cloud infrastructure, observability, and modern security principles.

• Business-oriented mindset with the ability to connect engineering decisions to revenue, customer outcomes, operational efficiency, and broader business strategy.

• Hands‑on approach to technical leadership, with the ability and willingness to contribute directly alongside engineering teams rather than operating exclusively at a strategic distance.

• Experience coaching, mentoring, and developing senior engineering talent, ideally during a significant organizational or technical transformation.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills, including confidence working with executives, boards, customers, and cross‑functional teams.

• Ability to explain complex technical topics clearly to both technical and non‑technical audiences.

• Strong written communication skills and comfort working in an async‑first remote environment, with a focus on clear documentation, timely updates, and proactive context‑sharing.

• Experience working in remote‑first or distributed teams is valuable.

• Experience with SEO, search technology, web crawling, or related domains is a plus.

Benefits:

• 100% remote working model with the flexibility to work from wherever you are based within the supported European locations.

• High degree of autonomy and ownership within a high-trust environment.

• C‑level position with a seat at the executive table, direct influence over technology strategy, and visibility at board level.

• Significant opportunity to transform engineering practices, product development, infrastructure, and technology operations.

• Flexible working approach designed to support asynchronous collaboration and sustainable productivity.

• Low‑bureaucracy environment focused on maintaining momentum and avoiding unnecessary meetings.

• Opportunity to work closely with a small, experienced, and collaborative engineering team.

• Access to a broader international SaaS professional community for knowledge sharing, collaboration, and networking.

• Flexible time off to support sustainable performance and personal wellbeing.

• Generous learning and development budget covering courses, conferences, books, and other professional resources.

• Location‑adjusted compensation designed around local market conditions for a remote‑first environment.

• Salary expectations are discussed transparently during the recruitment process and shared in writing before the first interview.

• Opportunity to work at the intersection of SaaS, AI‑assisted engineering, distributed systems, infrastructure, and product innovation.