CTO – Chief Technology Officer

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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👨‍💼 Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

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Aspire Software

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

🏨 Hospitality

📦 Logistics

🏗️ Construction

Hospitality • Logistics • Construction

Aspire Software is a company that focuses on acquiring and nurturing businesses with a strong foundation in outstanding products and passionate teams. As part of the Valsef Group, Aspire Software offers resources, knowledge, and a suite of best practices to enhance and expand operations for continuous improvement and sustainable growth. The company emphasizes decentralization to unlock innovation and adaptability within its acquired entities. Aspire Software is dedicated to serving its customers through long-term technology partnerships, leveraging capital and expertise in various verticals to grow both the businesses and individuals involved.

📋 Description

• Lead the rebuild of the business's technology platform for the next 20 years. • Lead through managers and team leads for the established products; review architecture and steer major incidents when needed. • Work hands-on in the small, elite squad rebuilding the platform. • Own product engineering, QA, DevOps and cloud, data, and infrastructure. • Lead a production team of 20+ engineers, testers, product and platform staff. • Set priorities, delivery cadence, and metrics including velocity, quality, release predictability, and cost per product line. • Keep the mission-critical on-premises estate secure, supported, and compliant. • Establish programme governance with owners, plans, budgets, and monthly reporting to the MD. • Own reliability, incident response, postmortems, and support escalation. • Build a small, senior, AI-native engineering team using AI-assisted development. • Rebuild the core product as a best-in-class cloud platform targeting the number-one position in the UK market. • Set architecture, write and review code as needed, and set engineering standards. • Make AI development tools part of daily engineering work across legacy and new teams. • Own migration strategy for the installed customer base, including sequencing, integration, and data migration. • Maintain NHS integrations, accreditations, and clinical-safety obligations during migration. • Consolidate hosting and infrastructure and reduce customers' hardware and network footprint.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years in software engineering, including 4+ years leading teams. • Still hands-on enough to work inside a small, elite squad. • Personally, led a migration of paying customers from on premises to multi-tenant SaaS. • Strong Microsoft stack background: C#/.NET, SQL Server, Azure; able to assess legacy C++ and .NET Framework code. • Using AI development tools in your daily work is expected; able to maximize their value for yourself and your team and demonstrate delivery impact. • Track record of hard calls: restructuring teams, stopping failing projects, managing R&D to a P&L. • Ability to explain technical trade-offs clearly and root them in commercial rationale.

🏖️ Benefits

• A rare chance to build a market-leading product with a loyal customer base already in place. • High autonomy within a decentralized operating structure. • Career growth within a rapidly expanding Valsoft ecosystem. • Permanent ownership: Valsoft holds its businesses indefinitely, so you build for the long term, not for an exit. • A peer network of CTOs and engineering leaders across Valsoft's 150+ software companies. • Remote work flexibility.