Chief Technology Officer

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Zipdev

📍Remote - Mexico

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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