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While our eSeries product suite enables governments and their employees to deliver continued foundational court processes, our R&D focuses on leveraging emerging possibilities with technology to improve access and efficiency.\nHeadquartered in Los Angeles, Journal Technologies is a long-time, wholly-owned subsidiary of Daily Journal Corporation (NASDAQ: DJCO). We also have a major office in Logan, Utah, a team in Melbourne, Australia, an office in Victoria, Canada and a growing number of remote staff across North America.\nUnder our next generation of leadership, we're implementing a vision for the company that prioritizes building an extraordinary workplace with empowered people at the heart of our business. Great people want to collaborate with great people, and we are actively looking for smart, motivated people who care deeply about the work they do.\nChief Technology Officer\nThe Chief Technology Officer leads technology strategy, architecture, product development, and engineering across Journal Technologies. This leader sets and champions the technical vision, brings strong product and engineering thinking to every initiative, and ensures the company's platforms remain secure, reliable, and positioned for growth. The CTO works cross-functionally with every department and plays a central role in building out the new technology team described above, helping recruit talent and shape how new ideas are evaluated, developed, and scaled.\nWhat you'll do\nDevelop and lead a multi-year technology vision and roadmap aligned with the long-term goals of Journal Technologies and drive it across the organization.\nBring a customer-centric, problem-first approach to product development, ensuring teams deeply understand user needs before committing to solutions.\nIdentify emerging technologies and market opportunities that strengthen existing products and open new areas of value for the company.\nAdvise executive leadership on technology investments, build-versus-buy decisions, and potential acquisitions or partnerships.\nDefine architectural vision and principles, ensuring systems are configurable, repeatable, scalable, secure, appropriately modular, and engineered to upgrade and evolve over time.\nApply platform thinking by promoting reusable services, APIs, and shared components that serve multiple products and business units.\nOwn the modernization of the Company's technology portfolio, balancing investment in existing platforms with technical debt, modernization, consolidation, and next-generation capabilities.\nLead the engineering organization with a culture grounded in ownership, craftsmanship, continuous improvement, and pragmatic decision-making.\nMaintain and advance modern engineering practices, balancing speed of delivery with quality, reliability, and security.\nSupport our organization-wide transition to Agile methodologies and Scrum-at-Scale.\nServe as a true partner to other departments, building alignment on priorities, timelines, and resources across the organization.\nTranslate complex technical concepts into clear business terms for non-technical stakeholders, and bring business context back to technical teams.\nBuild, lead, and develop a high-performing technology organization, including organizational design, leadership development, succession planning, workforce strategy, and recruitment of critical technical capabilities needed for the Company's future.\nEnsure appropriate standards for security, privacy, compliance, and data governance, including requirements common to courts, government agencies, and criminal justice systems (such as CJIS).\nOversee technology investment, performance, and operational resilience, ensuring resources are aligned with priorities and systems remain reliable, scalable, and prepared for business continuity.\nEstablish effective technology governance and risk management, partnering with Security, Cloud Operations, IT, Legal, and business leaders to manage architectural, cybersecurity, regulatory, and third-party technology risks.\nQualifications & Skills\n12+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 5 years in senior technical leadership roles (CTO, VP of Engineering, Head of Engineering, or similar).\nProven experience leading and scaling engineering organizations and enterprise software platforms. \nDeep expertise in software and systems architecture, including distributed systems, cloud-native design, APIs, and data platforms.\nStrong product sense, with experience making customer-driven product decisions.\nA track record of setting a compelling technical vision and rallying teams and executives around it.\nProven success working cross-functionally, with excellent communication skills and the ability to engage executives, engineers, customers, and partners alike.\nBackground in government technology, justice or court systems, legal technology, or other regulated public sector markets is highly desirable. \nExperience incubating new products or working in a startup, innovation lab, or venture environment is preferred.\nHands-on experience applying AI, machine learning, and data-driven technologies to real products is preferred.\nExperience working within Agile teams or formal training in Scrum or Agile methodologies \nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; advanced degree is a plus. \nGiven the highly collaborative nature of this role, preference will be shown for candidates able to work on a regular/hybrid basis from our Los Angeles headquarters. \nThe above statements describe the general nature and level of work being performed in this job function. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties; additional responsibilities may be assigned.\nAt this time, we are only able to consider candidates who are U.S. (or potentially Canadian) citizens or permanent residents due to employment authorization requirements. We are unable to provide visa sponsorship or work authorization support for this position.\nWhy Journal Technologies?\nVisit www.journaltech.com/careers for more information, but highlights include:\nCompetitive compensation* The salary range posted for this position reflects a good-faith estimate of the base salary we reasonably expect to offer a successful candidate upon hire. Final compensation will be based on job-related factors, including qualifications, experience, geographic location, and internal compensation considerations.\nQuality medical, dental, and vision coverage.\nDiscretionary profit sharing for eligible employees.\nCompetitive paid time off as well as paid holiday time.\n401(k) retirement (US) and GRRSP (CDN) programs.\nAnnual professional development funds - minimum $1,500 USD annual per employee (amount depends on role; however, our goal is to invest in our people).\nBook subscriptions with an extensive library in each office for personal and professional growth.\nTravel opportunities between Journal Technology offices and to interesting client locations.\nWe provide technology that matters in the world, and we're a stable employer comprised of quality people, with a commitment to investing in our people.","description_format":"text","description_chars":7490,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":12,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Professional development"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Digital Government","Legal Software"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-06T19:24:06Z"},{"event":"close","at":"2026-10-09T15:22:07Z"},{"event":"reopen","at":"2026-10-10T00:31:53Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":11,"expected_fill_days":82,"reasons":["conf:0","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-14T06:34:16Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/journal-technologies-chief-technology-officer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/journal-technologies-chief-technology-officer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-14T15:37:25Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":19804,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-15T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":679200},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=679200"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fjournal-technologies-chief-technology-officer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fjournal-technologies-chief-technology-officer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fjournal-technologies-chief-technology-officer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/journal-technologies-chief-technology-officer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fjournal-technologies-chief-technology-officer"}]}