About ActAI
With over 5 billion users utilizing basic applications such as email, notes, tasks, calendars, and to-do lists, ActAI aims to enhance the intelligence and efficiency of these tools by integrating AI capabilities. Our mission is to create proactive applications accessible to all, without requiring extensive prompting.
At ActAI, we prioritize achieving high reliability for long-running workflows, maintaining persistent context, and ensuring efficient task completion. We believe that our products will significantly reduce human error and enhance productivity.
Our ultimate goal is to organize individuals' lives, allowing them to focus on meaningful activities. This vision drives our development efforts, aiming to provide essential tools that free up time and resources.
About the Role
The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) plays a crucial role in leading the technology strategy, architecture, and engineering standards across the entire organization. This is a leadership position that demands a deep understanding of multiple businesses, while still being deeply involved in system, architecture, and engineering execution.
What You Will Do
- Own the 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 judgment and the 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.
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