At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead tech strategy and architecture across multiple innovative products.
- Company: ActAI, a forward-thinking company revolutionising everyday applications with AI.
- Benefits: Hybrid work model, competitive salary, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Join a dynamic team focused on building reliable, user-friendly AI applications.
- Why this job: Shape the future of technology and make a real impact on users' lives.
- Qualifications: Extensive software engineering experience and strong leadership skills.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.
About ActAI
There are over 5 billion users using basic applications today such as email, notes, tasks, calendar and they're not AI-native. Our mission is to build proactive applications for anyone in the world, who are not used to complex prompting. We aim to bring intelligence to conversations, errands, organising and workflows, with minimal to no prompting. Our product focuses on achieving high reliability for long-running workflows, persistent context, and real-world task completion. We believe products will greatly reduce hallucinations. Our objective is to organise anyone's life, allowing us all to spend time on valuable and meaningful things.
About the Role
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.
What you will need:
- 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.
Chief Technology Officer 4 locations · Hybrid · Full-time → in London employer: ActAI
At ActAI, we pride ourselves on fostering a dynamic and inclusive work culture that empowers our employees to thrive. As a High-Impact Operations Manager, you will benefit from unparalleled growth opportunities, working alongside innovative leaders in a fast-paced environment that values collaboration and creativity. Our commitment to employee development and well-being makes ActAI an exceptional place to build a meaningful career.
