Growth Signals
Chief Technology Officer
Hybrid (Boston, Massachusetts, US) · Exec
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 23 days ago
Distributed SystemsAWSGCPAzureCI/CDPlatform EngineeringMachine LearningLLMsCybersecurityPenetration TestingIncident ResponseComplianceTest AutomationLeadershipCommunication
About the role
- The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is a core executive leadership role, responsible for defining and executing the company's technology and product strategy.
- Make architectural decisions that ensure scalability, reliability, and maintainability across distributed systems and multi‑tenant SaaS environments.
- Provide executive‑level technical leadership during complex enterprise deployments, escalations, and architecture reviews.
Responsibilities
- Background and Overview Growth Signals builds and delivers enterprise‑grade software solutions where reliability, security, and execution discipline are foundational to customer trust and long‑term success.
- Own the end‑to‑end technical direction for Growth Signals, encompassing application architecture, APIs, infrastructure, integrations, data platforms, and AI systems.
- Lead the engineering and product organizations with clear ownership and accountability.
- Establish and maintain a disciplined engineering operating model covering planning, execution, testing, release management, and post‑deployment support.
- Drive platform reliability and operational excellence, including observability, incident response, SLOs/SLAs, on‑call readiness, and post‑incident review processes.
- Own secure development standards and practices, including threat modeling, identity and access controls, data protection, dependency management, and API security.
- Lead enterprise security and compliance efforts, including SOC 2 readiness, audits, penetration testing, and customer security reviews.
- Partner closely with Product to evaluate technical feasibility, manage tradeoffs, and sequence delivery while controlling technical debt.
- Serve as the executive technical authority for Growth Signals with customers, partners, auditors, and senior technical candidates.
Requirements
- 10+ years of hands‑on experience in software engineering, with significant ownership of production systems at scale.
- 5+ years in senior technical leadership roles (CTO, VP Engineering, Director, or equivalent) with responsibility for architecture and delivery.
- Ability to translate complex and ambiguous business needs into clear technical strategy and execution plans.
- Required Qualifications 10+ years of hands‑on experience in software engineering, with significant ownership of production systems at scale.
Nice to have
- Experience scaling technology platforms and engineering organizations in enterprise or growth‑stage SaaS companies.
- Background supporting complex enterprise implementations in regulated or high‑trust environments.
- Familiarity with AI/ML and GenAI systems, including integration patterns, evaluation frameworks, and operational monitoring.
- Experience owning or leading SOC 2, ISO‑aligned controls, or similar compliance programs.
- Exposure to platform engineering, developer productivity tooling, or reliability engineering disciplines.
Company info
- Proven experience delivering secure, reliable software to enterprise customers with high availability and compliance expectations.
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