Hands-On Deputy CTO: AI-Driven Production Systems Lead

Private Advertiser; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 210,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

Private Advertiser in Kuala Lumpur is seeking a hands-on Deputy CTO to work alongside the CTO in a ~50-person technology organisation spanning software engineering, QA, design, infrastructure, cybersecurity and business analysis.

This role is not general management; you personally design and ship production systems rapidly, and you drive delivery quality and accountability across the team.

Qualifications

• 8–10 years of software engineering experience building and operating production systems.
• Experience managing about 20–30 people across different technical roles.
• Experience owning or supporting high-availability products (e.g. 99.9% SLA targets).
• Current hands-on strength with Claude Code or comparable AI engineering tools.
• Experience with multi-agent / autonomous AI delivery workflows — not only chat assistants.
• Strong in at least one modern backend stack; solid architecture, APIs, databases, cloud, deploy and production ops.
• Able to challenge weak delivery assumptions with evidence; clear communicator with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Working knowledge of secure development and data protection in a Malaysian or regulated setting.

Responsibilities

• Personally design, build and ship production systems end to end; unblock high‑risk technical problems yourself
• Be the role model for Claude Code, agentic engineering and delivery harnesses (agents, subagents, MCP, tools, evals, guardrails, cost control)
• Review how engineers use AI; improve how they break down work, prompt, test and validate
• Judge estimates and progress with technical evidence; review architecture, code and AI‑generated work
• Oversee IT capacity and timesheets; coach and hold technical leads accountable
• Support hard people decisions when performance does not improve, in line with the CTO
• Partner with the CTO on architecture, hiring and technical priorities; deputise with management, customers or vendors when asked
• Translate unclear business needs into practical technical plans; recommend what should not be built

Skills

Hands-on engineering

People management 20-30

AI tooling Claude Code

Multi-agent AI workflows

Backend stack depth

System architecture

Security/data protection

Strong communicator

Tools

Claude Code

Cloud platforms

APIs & databases

Job description

Private Advertiser in Kuala Lumpur is seeking a hands-on Deputy CTO to work alongside the CTO in a ~50-person technology organisation spanning software engineering, QA, design, infrastructure, cybersecurity and business analysis.

This role is not general management; you personally design and ship production systems rapidly, and you drive delivery quality and accountability across the team.