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# Chief Technology Officer

- **Company:** ActAI Inc
- **Location:** Palo Alto, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Cloud Computing, Software Quality, Code Review, Databases, Distributed Systems, Software Engineering, Technical Debt, Backend
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25304_69ecca452994fed6f2a9ff90024c9f5f

## 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.

## Description

The CTO will own technology strategy, architecture and engineering standards across the Group. This is a technical leadership role for someone who can operate across multiple businesses while remaining close to systems, architecture and engineering execution.

What you will be doing

 * Own architecture and major technical decisions across group products and platforms.
 * Review critical systems, architecture, infrastructure and code directly.
 * Set engineering standards across reliability, security, performance, testing and code quality.
 * Identify technical debt and architecture constraints and drive their resolution.
 * Improve engineering productivity, development speed and production reliability.
 * Decide where technology and infrastructure should be shared across Group businesses.
 * Recruit and assess senior engineers, technical leads and engineering leaders.