CTO – Chief Technology Officer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Spearhead the reconstruction of the business's technology platform for the forthcoming 20 years.

• Guide through managers and team leaders for the existing products; evaluate architecture and direct major incidents as necessary.

• Engage directly in a small, elite team tasked with rebuilding the platform.

• Oversee product engineering, QA, DevOps, as well as cloud, data, and infrastructure.

• Lead a production team comprising of over 20 engineers, testers, and product and platform personnel.

• Establish priorities, delivery schedules, and metrics including velocity, quality, release predictability, and cost per product line.

• Ensure the mission-critical on-premises estate remains secure, supported, and compliant.

• Implement programme governance with stakeholders, plans, budgets, and monthly reporting to the Managing Director.

• Take charge of reliability, incident response, postmortems, and support escalation.

• Assemble a small, senior, AI-native engineering team employing AI-assisted development.

• Transform the core product into a leading cloud platform aiming for the top position in the UK market.

• Define architecture, write and review code as necessary, and establish engineering standards.

• Integrate AI development tools into daily engineering practices across both legacy and new teams.

• Formulate a migration strategy for the existing customer base, covering sequencing, integration, and data migration.

• Sustain NHS integrations, accreditations, and clinical safety obligations throughout the migration process.

• Streamline hosting and infrastructure while minimizing customers' hardware and network footprint.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of experience in software engineering, including 4+ years in leadership roles.

• Remain hands-on enough to contribute within a small, elite team.

• Have personally managed the migration of paying customers from on-premises solutions to multi-tenant SaaS.

• Strong background in the Microsoft stack: C#/.NET, SQL Server, Azure; capable of assessing legacy C++ and .NET Framework code.

• Expected to utilize AI development tools in daily tasks; able to enhance their value for yourself and your team while demonstrating delivery impact.

• Proven track record of making difficult decisions: restructuring teams, halting unsuccessful projects, and managing R&D to a profit-and-loss framework.

• Ability to articulate technical trade-offs clearly, grounded in commercial rationale.

🏝️ Benefits

• A unique opportunity to develop a market-leading product with an already loyal customer base.

• Significant autonomy within a decentralized operational framework.

• Opportunities for career advancement within the rapidly growing Valsoft ecosystem.

• Permanent ownership: Valsoft retains its businesses indefinitely, allowing you to build for the long term rather than for an exit.

• Access to a network of peers including CTOs and engineering leaders across Valsoft's 150+ software companies.

• Flexibility for remote work.