Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) based in Brazil.
This is a senior executive technology leadership role within a fast-scaling digital ecosystem operating across performance marketing, digital products, automation, and proprietary platform development. The position plays a critical role in defining and executing the company’s long-term technology vision, ensuring the infrastructure can support high-volume operations, data-driven decision-making, and continuous product innovation. You will lead the evolution of scalable architectures, engineering teams, and digital platforms that power growth across multiple business lines. The role requires a strong balance between strategic leadership and hands-on execution in a high-growth, entrepreneurial environment. You will work closely with business leadership to align technology with commercial goals and product expansion. This is a key opportunity to shape the technological foundation of a rapidly expanding digital business and its future initiatives, including payments and AI-driven solutions. The environment is fast-paced, execution-oriented, and focused on building long-term digital assets.
Accountabilities:
- Define and execute the overall technology strategy aligned with business growth, product expansion, and long-term digital ecosystem development.
- Lead and scale engineering, architecture, data, DevOps, SRE, and security functions, ensuring operational excellence and technical consistency.
- Drive the design and evolution of scalable cloud-native architectures, including microservices, APIs, and event-driven systems.
- Oversee infrastructure reliability, security, compliance, and performance, ensuring adherence to best practices and regulatory requirements such as LGPD.
- Lead the development and implementation of data strategy, governance, and AI-driven initiatives to enhance automation and decision-making.
- Support the creation and scaling of new digital products and platforms, including future payment-related initiatives.
- Establish engineering standards, frameworks, and processes that support scalability, quality, and delivery efficiency.
- Develop and mentor technical leaders, building a strong leadership pipeline within the technology organization.
- Act as a strategic partner to business and product leadership, aligning technology execution with commercial priorities.
- Balance strategic planning with hands-on involvement in solving complex technical and organizational challenges.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related fields; MBA or postgraduate degree is a plus.
- Proven experience in executive technology leadership roles, ideally as CTO or VP of Engineering in high-growth environments.
- Strong background in building and scaling engineering teams and complex digital products.
- Advanced expertise in cloud environments (AWS), microservices, APIs, and distributed system architecture.
- Deep knowledge of DevOps, CI/CD, SRE practices, observability, and system reliability engineering.
- Strong experience in data engineering, analytics platforms, AI-driven solutions, and automation initiatives.
- Solid understanding of cybersecurity, infrastructure governance, and regulatory compliance (including LGPD).
- Experience with fintech, payments, SaaS, or high-scale digital platforms is highly desirable.
- Strong leadership, communication, and organizational influence skills at executive level.
- Ability to operate in fast-paced, entrepreneurial, and high-growth environments with strong execution focus.
- Experience building multi-tenant or white-label platforms is a plus.
- Competitive compensation package aligned with executive-level responsibilities
- Strategic leadership role with high impact on business and technology direction
- Opportunity to build and scale a full technology organization from a high-growth stage
- Exposure to cutting-edge initiatives in AI, automation, and digital platform innovation
- Executive autonomy in shaping architecture, teams, and long-term technical vision
- Participation in building future payment and digital ecosystem initiatives
- Fast-paced entrepreneurial environment with strong execution culture
- Additional allowances and benefits package as per company policy.