Chief Technology Officer

Position Description

Role Overview

The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is a hands-on, engineering-driven leadership role responsible for shaping Antero’s software architecture, guiding the modernisation of its platform stack, and mentoring the next generation of developers.

This role suits a principal-level developer who has built SDKs and frameworks used by others and who can lead the evolution of a mature SaaS product into a modern, flexible platform.

The CTO will:

- Lead a comprehensive technical discovery of Antero’s current product architecture and development practices.
- Assess opportunities for improvement and recommend a modernisation strategy that enhances scalability, maintainability, and developer productivity.
- Actively write and review production code, particularly within Antero’s SDK and shared library ecosystem.
- Shape the end-to-end developer experience — from onboarding and tooling, to workflows, mentorship, and career development — ensuring every engineer can deliver their best work.
- Collaborate closely with the executive team on broader business strategy, delivery, cybersecurity and innovation beyond core technology.

Key Responsibilities

Technology Leadership & Modernisation

- Lead a full assessment of the current Laravel/React environment to identify strengths, risks, and areas for modernisation.
- Define and implement a forward-looking technology roadmap that aligns with business priorities and supports product scalability.
- Architect a next-generation platform model leveraging modern paradigms such as microservices, serverless computing, and event-driven design.
- Develop and maintain Antero’s internal Software Development Kit (SDK) to standardise product components and integration patterns.
- Embed observability practices (metrics, logging, and tracing) to ensure system performance, reliability, and visibility at scale.
- Champion code confidence by defining and enforcing automated testing strategies, quality gates, and CI/CD practices that give developers certainty in the reliability of every release.

Hands-on Development

- Contribute directly to Antero’s SDK and core codebases.
- Build frameworks, services, and APIs that drive developer efficiency and scalability.
- Lead by example through high-quality, maintainable, well-documented code, and independently testable code.

Mentorship & Technical Culture

- Provide regular 1-on-1 coaching and technical guidance to developers across all levels.
- Foster a culture of craftsmanship, learning, and peer review.
- Lead internal workshops on emerging technologies and modern design patterns.

Collaboration & Strategic Delivery

- Partner with executive peers to ensure technology supports Antero’s growth strategy and product roadmap.
- Provide architectural direction across client projects, SaaS products, and internal initiatives.
- Act as a senior voice in technical planning, risk identification, and solution design.

Skills & Experience

- 10+ years of software engineering experience with a strong history of hands-on coding and architecture design.
- Proven experience developing and maintaining SDKs or developer-facing frameworks.
- Demonstrated success modernising or re-platforming large-scale systems.
- Strong knowledge of modern backend ecosystems (Node.js, Go, Python, PHP) and front-end technologies (React, Next.js, TypeScript).
- Deep understanding of microservices, serverless architecture, and scalable SaaS design.
- Experience building and operating systems with strong observability (distributed tracing, metrics, log correlation).
- Proficiency in AWS or similar cloud environments and modern CI/CD workflows.
- Strong mentorship and leadership experience across multidisciplinary teams.
- Experience assessing and transitioning legacy systems to service-based or event-driven architectures.
- Background in financial services or regulated environments.
- Open-source contribution or published SDK/project experience.

Why Join Antero

You’ll be joining at a pivotal moment, leading the next phase of Antero’s technology evolution while remaining deeply connected to hands-on software engineering. You’ll have the autonomy to shape how our products are built, the tools developers use, and the technical standards that define Antero’s future. Antero offers a collaborative, transparent culture that values growth, innovation, and craftsmanship.

If this sounds like your kind of place the next steps for you to follow are:

- within a few days you’ll receive atech testwhich helps us to better understand yourskill leveland where you’ll fit in the team
- for those who successfully complete the tech test you will receive an interview where we can discuss your results and where you might fit within our team

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