Chief Technology Officer

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🕒 August 12

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⏰ Full Time

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👨‍💼 Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

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Submittable

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51 - 200 employees

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

🌍 Social Impact

Consulting • Marketing • Social Impact

Submittable is an easy-to-use, powerful social impact platform designed for organizations of any size, including companies and foundations. It enables teams to come together to make better decisions and maximize their social impact by facilitating the collection of applications, managing review teams, awarding funds, and reporting on results—all within a single platform.

📋 Description

• Define and own the multi-year technology roadmap and architecture strategy aligned with business goals • Evaluate and evolve the technology stack for scalability, security, and reliability • Champion product stability and platform resilience • Own build-vs-buy and vendor/technology partnership decisions • Maintain legacy platforms and develop potential migration strategies and profit optimization • Lead a distributed engineering organization across the US and India • Recruit, develop, and retain engineering talent and build a strong leadership bench • Establish engineering best practices covering code quality, testing, CI/CD, incident response, and security • Drive collaboration and communication across distributed teams • Partner with Product on roadmap prioritization and technical feasibility • Work with Sales and Customer Success on technical escalations and enterprise requirements • Represent Engineering in executive strategic planning, budgeting, and board-level initiatives • Own engineering KPIs including uptime, reliability, velocity, technical debt reduction, defect reporting, and AI utilization • Oversee security and compliance, including SOC II audits, penetration testing, and privacy compliance • Manage the engineering budget, SaaS platform margin, headcount planning, and vendor contracts • Ensure compliance with SaaS data security, privacy, and industry regulations • Deliver first-year outcomes including a technical roadmap, improved stability and uptime, stronger US/India collaboration, and senior leadership hiring and retention milestones

🎯 Requirements

• 12+ years of software engineering experience • 5+ years in senior technology leadership, such as CTO or equivalent, at a SaaS company • Proven experience leading distributed or global engineering teams, ideally including India-based teams • Track record of scaling engineering organizations from startup to mid-market SaaS • Experience building or scaling AI/ML-powered product features and driving AI adoption in engineering • Strong technical foundation in modern web architecture, cloud infrastructure such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, APIs, and data security • Experience partnering with executive leadership on business strategy • Excellent communication skills, including translating technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders and the board • Experience with M&A technical due diligence, platform migrations, or major re-architecture projects is a plus • Eligible to work in the United States • Scholastic or employment visas cannot be accommodated • Applicants residing in Alaska, Delaware, Hawaii, Louisiana, Maine, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia, or Wyoming are not considered

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health and life insurance with optional HSA, FSA, and DCA accounts • 401(k) plan with employer match starting day one • Equity stock options to share in our success • Flexible hours, remote work options, and generous vacation and sick leave • Paid parental leave for mothers, fathers, and adoptive parents • Professional development stipends to support your career growth • Opportunities to participate in community outreach and volunteer programs • Monthly company-sponsored happy hours and gatherings to connect and unwind