📍United Kingdom
CTO

Masabi
📍Remote - Romania
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Summary
Join Masabi, a global leader in fare payment technology, as their hands-on Chief Technology Officer (CTO). This pivotal role combines architectural ownership, technical leadership, and product vision to drive global transit transformation. You will define and evolve Masabi's long-term technical strategy, ensuring platform stability and integrity. The position offers flexibility, with options for a more hands-on technical focus or broader leadership over a 150-person engineering team. You will champion AI-driven innovation and collaborate across departments. Based remotely in Romania with occasional travel, this role is ideal for a highly technical leader seeking significant impact.
Requirements
- You have extensive leadership experience in software engineering in SaaS and complex B2B environments
- You are a hands-on technical leader who remains close to code and architecture while also capable of scaling teams and strategy
- You bring expert-level knowledge of distributed systems, cloud-native architecture, and modern, scalable infrastructure
- You’ve led engineering across multiple functions, including development, operations, and compliance
- You’ve successfully embedded AI/ML into production systems, with measurable outcomes in either product or internal efficiency
- You’re a clear communicator, cross-functional collaborator, and thoughtful leader who thrives in complex, mission-driven environments
Responsibilities
- Define and continuously evolve Masabi’s long-term technical strategy aligned with scalable growth
- Take full accountability for platform stability, extensibility and technical integrity
- Guide architectural decision-making with clarity and pragmatism
- Maintain hands-on connection with our code and systems, leading by example to model engineering excellence
- Identify opportunities to apply AI/ML/Predictive Analytics across our product suite, internal tools, and operations
- Foster a culture of responsible experimentation, AI fluency, and continuous learning
- Lead, support, and develop our community of Engineers
- Champion a culture of excellence, psychological safety, and inclusion
- Collaborate cross-functionally across Engineering, Product, Business Development, and Professional Services to align priorities and outcomes
- Manage Incident and Problem Management functions to ensure a consistent, high-quality customer experience
- Work closely with Product and Business Development to shape impactful platform enhancements
- Represent Masabi in strategic customer and partner conversations involving architecture, security, compliance, and integration
- Lead or support technical due diligence and platform integration during mergers, acquisitions, or strategic partnerships
- Ensure platform alignment with compliance standards including SOC2, ISO27001, and PCI
- Bring experience navigating technical transformation during periods of significant organisational growth
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in mobility, payments, fintech, or highly available enterprise SaaS
- Involvement in platform re-architecture, system integrations, or M&A-related transformations
- Comfort working in regulated or security-sensitive environments
Benefits
- Up to 26 days of holiday per year plus the Christmas Shutdown (another 3-4 days)
- Private healthcare
- Monthly team bonding allowance
- Up to €1000 training budget per year
- ���200 to spend on your home office
- Choice of workstation
- Menopause support
- Ability to work for up to 3 months per year from any country in the world. Certain limitations may apply
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