Chief Technology Officer

Zipdev
Summary
Join Zipdev as their hands-on, visionary Chief Technology Officer to lead the company into its next chapter. You will own a growing codebase, scale a talented engineering team, and establish best-in-class practices for speed, reliability, and innovation, particularly in AI investments. Lead and grow a distributed engineering team, own architecture and technical decision-making, and drive a clear technical vision focused on AI chat solutions and AI-assisted development workflows. Improve development velocity and reliability, collaborate with Product and Design, and report to the CEO and CPO. This role offers a unique opportunity to lead both strategy and execution during a period of significant growth. The position is fully remote, offering a flexible work environment.
Requirements
- 7 -15 years of software engineering working experience
- Previous experience as a Software Architect or Team lead in a start-up environment or corporate
- Proven experience leading and scaling high-performing engineering teams in a startup or growth-stage environment
- Strong architectural experience across full-stack platforms, especially cloud-native, containerized deployments
- Deep comfort with modern dev practices: CI/CD, test automation, incident response, observability, etc
- Experience integrating or building advanced AI/ML systems (especially LLMs or conversational agents)
- Ability to build remote-first team culture: clear communication, ownership, mentorship, and velocity
- A product-oriented mindset—comfortable working cross-functionally to find scrappy, elegant solutions
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow a distributed engineering team (currently 5 developers, mostly in LatAm)
- Own architecture and technical decision-making across our stack
- Drive a clear, forward-looking technical vision, especially around AI chat solutions and AI-assisted development workflows
- Improve dev velocity and reliability by strengthening QA, CI/CD, and operational processes
- Collaborate closely with Product and Design to turn customer needs into beautifully executed software
- Report directly to the CEO and work alongside the CPO to shape strategy and roadmap
Benefits
- Vacation: 10 business days a year
- Holidays: 5 National Holidays a year
- Company Holidays: 5 Company Holidays a year (Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year's Eve, New Year's Day, Zipdev Day)
- Parental Leave
- Health Care Reimbursement
- Active Lifestyle Reimbursement
- Quarterly Home Office Reimbursement
- Payroll Deduction Purchase Plans
- Longevity Bonus
- Continuous Learning Bonus
- Access to Training and Professional Development Platforms
- Work remotely Monday - Friday, 40 hours a week (no weekends)
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