Chief Technology Officer
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Tech stack
Job description
- Listens well, instead of reacting fast, so you can better understand.
- Is concise and articulate in speech and writing.
- Maintains calm poise in stressful situations.
- Impact
- Deliver outcomes that matter
- Accomplishes amazing amounts of important work.
- Demonstrates consistently strong performance so colleagues can rely upon you.
- Focuses on great results even over great processes.
- Exhibit bias-to-action and avoid analysis-paralysis.
- Curiosity
- Asks questions, learns quickly
- Learns rapidly and eagerly.
- Seeks to understand our strategy, market, customers, and suppliers.
- Is broadly knowledgeable about business, technology, and financial institutions / services.
- Contributes effectively outside of your specialty.
- Innovation
- Finds new/better ways to work
- Re-conceptualizes issues to discover practical solutions to hard problems.
- Challenges prevailing assumptions when warranted, and suggest better approaches.
- Creates new ideas that prove useful.
- Keeps us nimble by minimizing complexity and finding time to simplify.
- Courage
- Speaks up, takes responsible risks
- Says what they think even if it is controversial.
- Makes tough decisions without agonizing.
- Takes smart risks.
- Passion
- Shows enthusiasm and drive
- Inspire others with your thirst for excellence.
- Cares intensely about CUCollaborate's success.
- Celebrate wins and istenacious.
- Honesty
- Is direct, transparent and trustworthy
- Is known for candor and directness.
- Is non-political (company politics) when you disagree with others.
- Is quick to admit mistakes.
- Selflessness
- You seek what is best for CUCollaborate, rather than best for yourself or your group
- You are ego-less when searching for the best ideas
- You make time to help colleagues
- You share information openly and proactively
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- Lead engineering teams and establish culture of accountability and high performance
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Own technical architecture and platform strategy, with particular focus on data infrastructure
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Build and scale data consortium platform that aggregates anonymized data across hundreds of credit unions
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Own security and compliance, ensuring systems and processes meet regulatory requirements
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Partner with CEO and product leadership on technical strategy and resource allocation
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Work with founding engineer to evolve systems architecture and development practices
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Make build vs. buy decisions and prioritize platform investments based on business impact
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Hire, develop, and performance-manage engineering talent; make difficult staffing decisions when necessary
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Review code, evaluate architectural proposals, and set technical standards across the organization
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Communicate technical strategy clearly to executive leadership and stakeholders, We have a world-class team striving to deliver meaningful results for our team and over two hundred credit unions across this country. Our environment is fun and fast-paced, and we are passionate about growing personally and professionally. Responsibilities include: Supervisory Responsibilities
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Track record of holding teams to high standards, building accountability systems, and making hard staffing decisions
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Oversee day-to-day team operations, ensuring productivity, and fostering a positive work environment
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Mentor employees, setting clear performance expectations, and conducting regular evaluations *Ability to motivate individuals to meet organizational goals while supporting their professional growth. Day to Day Responsibilities
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Lead CUCollaborate's engineering organization through its next phase of growth. This hands-on leadership role combines strategic technical direction with team management, owning our full technical operation including engineering teams, data infrastructure, product architecture, and security.
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Work closely with our founding engineer to transition from founder-led development to systematically structured engineering practices while building the data platform that will serve thousands of credit unions.
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The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise in backend systems and data architecture, proven ability to build high-performing teams through direct feedback and accountability, and genuine interest in expanding financial access through credit union technology.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience. Advanced degree preferred but not required.
- 10+ years in software engineering, including 5+ years leading multiple squads in a high-growth SaaS or product company
- Startup experience preferred but not required.
- Excellent communication skills, including direct communication and accountability
- Must be able to earntrust through clear reasoning, patience and technical expertise
- Candidates must genuinely care about expanding financial access through credit unions, not just seeking any Chief Technology Officer role
- US Eastern or Central Time Zone location
