Chief Technology Officer (CTO) / Founding CTO

Chief Technology Officer (CTO) / Founding CTO

Strategic Staffing Solutions (S3) has an opening! This is a hands-on leadership position for someone who enjoys building products, writing production code, and leading engineering organizations from the ground up. The ideal candidate combines strategic thinking with deep technical expertise and is comfortable spending significant time "on the keyboard" while also defining technical vision, mentoring engineers, and building high-performing teams. You'll play a key role in shaping our technology roadmap, architecture, engineering culture, and AI strategy.

This opportunity is ideal for an experienced CTO or a senior engineering leader with the technical maturity and leadership capability to grow into an executive technology role.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and execute the company's technology vision and long-term engineering strategy.
• Serve as a hands-on technical leader, actively contributing to architecture, design, and software development.
• Lead Greenfield product development from concept through production.
• Build, mentor, and scale high-performing engineering teams.
• Establish engineering best practices, coding standards, CI/CD processes, and software development methodologies.
• Drive AI-first product development, leveraging modern AI-assisted coding tools and large language model technologies where appropriate.
• Make key architectural decisions that prioritize scalability, performance, reliability, and security.
• Partner closely with executive leadership, product management, and stakeholders to align technology initiatives with business objectives.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and identify opportunities for innovation.
• Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Required Qualifications

• Bilingual English + Spanish.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• Extensive software engineering experience with a strong history of hands-on development.
• Demonstrated ability to lead engineering teams while remaining an active individual contributor.
• Experience building Greenfield applications, platforms, or products.
• Strong architectural design and system engineering experience.
• Proven expertise developing cloud-native applications.
• Experience building scalable distributed systems and modern APIs.
• Strong understanding of DevOps, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and software delivery.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills.
• Ability to balance strategic leadership with tactical execution.

Preferred Technical Experience

• AI-assisted software development
• Generative AI applications
• Large Language Models (LLMs)
• AI coding tools (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf, etc.)
• Python
• TypeScript
• JavaScript
• Go
• Java or C#
• React
• Node.js
• AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
• Kubernetes
• Docker
• Microservices architecture
• Event-driven architecture
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation)
• Modern CI/CD pipelines
• SQL and NoSQL databases

* Beware of scams. S3 never asks for money during its onboarding process