Chief Technical Officer, Fixico

• 10+ years of Engineering leadership experience, including leading managers and senior Engineering teams
• Previous experience as a CTO, VP Engineering, Head of Engineering or similar leadership role within a SaaS, marketplace or technology company
• Proven experience scaling Engineering organisations in a fast-growing scale-up or high-growth environment
• Strong people leadership skills with a passion for coaching, mentoring and developing talent
• Experience leading distributed and international Engineering teams
• Strong operational mindset with experience driving delivery, planning and execution
• Experience building Engineering processes, organisational structure and scalable ways of working
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence at board and executive level
• Experience partnering closely with Product and Commercial teams
• Comfortable balancing long-term strategy with hands-on operational leadership
• You are fluent in English. Dutch is a plus
• Based in the Netherlands

Desirable

• As our CTO, you'll report directly to our Founder/CEO and be responsible for the overall Engineering organisation, delivery, people, and operational excellence.
• You'll lead an international Engineering team across Amsterdam and Sri Lanka (20+ engineers), creating an environment where high-performing teams can thrive while delivering a reliable, scalable platform
• You'll work in close partnership with our Chief Product Officer (CPO) to ensure Product and Engineering operate as one team. Together, you'll translate customer needs into scalable, high-quality solutions, bringing a strong customer-centric mindset to everything we build
• This is a leadership role first and foremost. We're looking for a genuine people leader who is passionate about building, coaching, and growing high-performing teams.
• You'll create clarity, develop leaders, empower engineers, and foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, continuous learning, and accountability. You believe that outstanding technology is built by outstanding people
• You'll also work very closely with our Principal Engineer, who owns the technical vision, architecture, and engineering craftsmanship.
• While the Principal Engineer drives technical direction, you'll focus on building a world-class Engineering organisation, enabling delivery, scaling the team, and creating the conditions for technical excellence to flourish
• Lead and develop Fixico's global Engineering organisation across Amsterdam and Sri Lanka
• Build, coach and scale a high-performing Engineering leadership team
• Own Engineering delivery, execution, planning and operational excellence across all teams
• Drive Engineering strategy in close partnership with the Founder & CEO, Product and Commercial leadership
• Create an environment where Engineers can grow, perform and do their best work
• Own hiring across the Engineering organisation, from individual contributors to Engineering leadership
• Lead performance management, career development and succession planning across Engineering
• Ensure Engineering teams consistently deliver high-quality software on time and at scale
• Own Engineering budgets, vendor management and technology operations
• Lead operational excellence, including engineering KPIs, delivery processes, incident management and service reliability
• Take ownership of Engineering compliance initiatives, including ISO27001, SOC2, security and operational governance
• Partner closely with the Principal Engineer to translate business priorities into scalable technical execution
• Foster a culture of accountability, ownership, collaboration and continuous improvement