Hands-On CTO: Scale AI-Native Platforms & Engineering

Salt; United States; On-site; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Salt is seeking a highly technical Chief Technology Officer to own technology strategy, architecture and engineering excellence across the business. The CTO will stay closely connected to technology, reviewing architecture, critical systems and deployments while guiding strategy and engineering standards.

You will lead engineering teams, recruit senior engineers and engineering leaders, and collaborate with executive leadership to align technology with product and business goals.

Responsibilities

• Own the overall technology strategy and technical direction of the organization.
• Lead architecture and major technical decisions across products and platforms.
• Review critical systems, architecture, infrastructure and code directly.
• Establish engineering standards across reliability, security, performance, testing and code quality.
• Identify technical debt, architectural constraints and scalability challenges and drive their resolution.
• Improve engineering productivity, development velocity and production reliability.
• Determine where technology, infrastructure and engineering capabilities should be shared across products and teams.
• Partner with senior leadership to ensure technology strategy supports broader business and product objectives.
• Recruit, assess and develop senior engineers, technical leads and engineering leaders.
• Build a high-performing engineering culture focused on quality, ownership and execution.
• Remain actively involved in critical incidents and complex technical challenges when required.

Job description

Salt is seeking a highly technical Chief Technology Officer to own technology strategy, architecture and engineering excellence across the business. The CTO will stay closely connected to technology, reviewing architecture, critical systems and deployments while guiding strategy and engineering standards.

You will lead engineering teams, recruit senior engineers and engineering leaders, and collaborate with executive leadership to align technology with product and business goals.