Remote CTO — AI-Driven SaaS Engineering Leader

Jobgether SRL; Ireland; On-site; EUR 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first across Europe

Executive level autonomy

Learning & development budget

Board-level visibility

Job summary

Jobgether SRL is seeking a Chief Technology Officer based in Ireland to lead a high-velocity SaaS engineering organisation. You will own technology vision, R&D budgeting, and the infrastructure roadmap, while embedding AI-driven practices and balancing costs with performance.

You will manage a small senior team, partner with executives and customers, and drive security, compliance and operational excellence across multi-region Kubernetes environments.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience with 5+ years in senior engineering leadership in SaaS.
• Experience with large-scale distributed systems and production Kubernetes.
• Proven ability to balance infra costs, maintenance, quality and velocity.
• Experience introducing AI tooling into engineering workflows.
• Experience leading SaaS security and compliance programs (SOC 2, ISO 27001 a plus).
• Strong communication with executives, boards and cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the technology vision, roadmap and engineering strategy.
• Lead a product-focused engineering organization.
• Embed AI-assisted development practices across teams.
• Own architecture, infra decisions and total cost of ownership.
• Oversee multi-region Kubernetes production environment.
• Mentor engineers and foster ownership and inclusion.
• Scale DevOps, CI/CD, observability and security practices.
• Translate tech concepts into business language for stakeholders.
• Manage R&D budget and infrastructure forecasting.
• Collaborate with CEO, Product and customers to drive growth.

Skills

Kubernetes

DevOps

AI tooling

Security

Financial literacy

Engineering leadership

Distributed systems

CI/CD

Strategic decision making

Stakeholder management

Tools

AWS/GCP/Azure

Cloud infrastructure

Job description

Jobgether SRL is seeking a Chief Technology Officer based in Ireland to lead a high-velocity SaaS engineering organisation. You will own technology vision, R&D budgeting, and the infrastructure roadmap, while embedding AI-driven practices and balancing costs with performance.

You will manage a small senior team, partner with executives and customers, and drive security, compliance and operational excellence across multi-region Kubernetes environments.