CTO (all genders)

What You'll Be Working On

• You take full technical responsibility for our B2B SaaS platform: TypeScript and React, Python with Django and Celery, Rust, running on Linux-based dedicated hardware
• Our engineering team of currently 16 people reports to you. Developing them, strengthening them and helping them grow is the largest part of the job.
• Together with product and management you shape product strategy and drive architecture, scalability and security forward, including ISO 27001 and NIS2.
• We currently work in Shape Up with six-week cycles. You keep our delivery focused, make that pace visible beyond engineering, and bring in a different way of working where it would serve us better.
• Reporting directly to the CEO puts you at the table where decisions are made, rather than having them handed down.

What Makes You a Fit

• You like the pace a startup makes possible: short paths, fast decisions, doing it yourself rather than escalating. Ideally you have been part of a growth story that worked out.
• A team of at least 15 people has been your responsibility for two years or more, including performance conversations and developing people; several teams in parallel is a plus.
• You communicate in a way that makes change land, not as an announcement, but so that people want to move with you
• AI is part of how you work rather than how you present: Claude, Copilot, Cursor or similar in long-term use, and you bring the topic into the team instead of keeping it to yourself.
• You have made technical decisions in a scaling environment and know what the path from startup to scale-up genuinely demands of architecture and process.
• You understand how your work reaches the customer, and you argue from impact and value rather than feature counts.
• And you bring energy. This role needs someone with an appetite for the job, not only experience with it.

What’s in It for You

• 600 € health budget per year, including 24/7 medical advice - also for family members in your household
• Subsidised Urban Sports Club membership (20 € monthly contribution)

• Learning budget for courses, books and conferences
• Free access to Udemy, Masterclass and language learning apps
• Leadership programmes such as "Next Gen" and "Effective Manager"

• Weekly FIKA, movie nights, book club and regular get-togethers and team events
• International summer party together with our colleagues in the Nordics

• Office-first setup: 3 days in our Cologne office at the MediaPark, 2 days remote
• 360° view across Cologne from the 14th floor
• Workation within the EU
• Snacks, cereal bar and drinks in the office

• Company pension scheme via Zurich with a 30 % employer contribution
• Job ticket or mobility budget, plus free parking at the MediaPark
• Corporate benefits
• 28 days of holiday, plus Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve off
• Up to 5 days of special leave for important life events