CTO #2701

Position Summary:

Our partner is a financial technology company helping consumers access credit through personal loans and buy now, pay later financing. Technology underpins its underwriting, credit risk management, financial transactions, and customer data. As the business grows, a shared technical direction will help its platforms scale securely and reliably alongside new product development.

As Chief Technology Officer, you’d work closely with the founders and lead multiple engineering teams through their technical leaders. The opportunity brings meaningful influence over architecture, technology investments, and how teams coordinate shared initiatives, balancing product commitments with infrastructure improvements, security, and technical debt reduction.

This suits a leader with deep software engineering expertise who stays close enough to distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and data flows to investigate problems independently and challenge design decisions. Daily coding isn’t expected, but technical involvement and follow-through are essential: identifying what needs attention, resolving dependencies, and ensuring improvements reach production with measurable results.

Experience and Education:

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent professional experience.
- Proven experience leading Engineering Managers and Tech Leads, establishing accountability, resolving competing priorities, and developing technical leaders.
- Demonstrated ownership of software architecture decisions involving distributed systems, APIs, integrations, scalability, and complex technical tradeoffs.




- Track record overseeing cloud infrastructure, production reliability, application security, observability, and incident response.
- Background overseeing database architecture, data integrity, governance, and consistency across interconnected systems.
- Experience establishing engineering standards across automated testing, CI/CD, release management, and production operations.
- Proven ability to independently investigate technical problems and deliver improvements across teams, using technical roadmaps to balance technical debt, available resources, and product commitments.
- Experience adapting engineering practices from systems operating at scale to organizations with fewer resources.
- Financial services experience and practical AI implementation are advantages.

Skills and Strengths:

- Engineering Leadership
- Technical Strategy
- Software Architecture
- Cross-Team Execution
- System Design
- Distributed Systems
- Production Reliability
- Security Engineering
- Technical Prioritization
- Leadership Development
- Cloud Infrastructure
- Data Integrity
- Data Governance
- Technical Debt Management
- Incident Management
- Observability
- Resource Allocation
- CI/CD
- Scalability
- Engineering Governance

Primary Job Responsibilities:





- Define and execute a technical strategy that connects engineering investments and platform development with business priorities.
- Lead and develop engineering managers and technical leads, strengthening decision-making, accountability, and collaboration across teams.
- Build technical roadmaps that balance product commitments with architecture, infrastructure, security, reliability, and technical debt improvements.
- Guide architecture decisions across distributed systems, applications, databases, APIs, and integrations, evaluating tradeoffs and avoiding unnecessary complexity.
- Independently investigate technical weaknesses and complex system problems, translating findings into practical improvements and driving implementation.
- Resolve competing priorities and cross-team dependencies, establish ownership, and coordinate resources so critical initiatives reach completion.
- Oversee cloud infrastructure, observability, incident response, and recovery practices to improve production reliability.
- Work with engineering teams to strengthen application security, address vulnerabilities, and protect sensitive customer information.
- Improve data integrity, governance, and consistency across systems supporting lending, underwriting, credit risk, and business reporting.
- Establish engineering standards for automated testing, CI/CD, deployment validation, production monitoring, and rollback.
- Partner with founders and business leaders to evaluate technology investments, communicate risks, and assess practical AI applications based on measurable value.

📌 Chief Technology Officer (Colombia)
🏢 Ranger Technical Resources
📍 Colombia