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# Chief Technology Officer

- **Company:** Bjak
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £76,958.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Cloud Computing, Code Review, Databases, Distributed Systems, Software Engineering, Backend
- **Published:** September 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5869154956

## About the Role

* Deep software engineering background with experience building and scaling production systems.
 * Strong knowledge of backend systems, APIs, databases, cloud infrastructure and distributed systems.
 * Experience making architecture decisions across multiple products or engineering teams.
 * Strong technical judgement and ability to challenge engineering decisions at implementation level.
 * Capable of building world-class engineering teams.
 * Still technically hands-on - able to review code, architecture, incidents and difficult engineering problems directly.



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