Chief Technology Officer

About Protingent: Protingent is an Award-Winning provider of top-tier Engineering and IT talent, trusted by companies at the forefront of innovation — from Software and Aerospace to AI, Clean Tech, Medical Devices, and Connected Technologies. This is a technical leadership role for someone who can operate across multiple businesses while remaining close to systems, architecture and engineering execution.

Job Title: Chief Technology Officer

Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting direct hire Chief Technology Officer with our client that is fully remote.

Job Description:

• 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.

Job Responsibilities:

• 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.

Job Qualifications:

• 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.

Job Details:

• Job Type: Direct Hire
• Salary Range: Market (Wide Open)
• Location: 100% Remote, US

About Protingent: Protingent is an Award-Winning provider of top-tier Engineering and IT talent, trusted by companies at the forefront of innovation — from Software and Aerospace to AI, Clean Tech, Medical Devices, and Connected Technologies. We’re passionate about making a positive impact by connecting exceptional talent with meaningful opportunities and helping our clients build the future.