Job
- Level
- Lead
- Job Field
- IT, Security, Back End
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Location
- Essen
- Working Model
- Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you take technical responsibility for our SaaS platform, lead the development team, set technical standards, and create roadmaps for scaling and performance.
Your role in the team
- As CTO / Co-Managing Director, you are part of the executive management team and share technical and entrepreneurial responsibility for TOUGH.
- You are responsible for our platform, our development team, and our technical organization, and you will develop them specifically to the next level of scaling.
- You assume overall technical responsibility for our SaaS platform as well as architecture, system design, and technical standards, with a clear focus on scalability, performance, security, and future viability.
- You lead the development team professionally and disciplinarily, further develop the technical organization, and establish clear responsibilities as well as a high-performance engineering culture.
- You translate product vision, customer requirements, and strategic growth objectives into a robust technical roadmap and resilient technical solutions.
- You are responsible for the technical delivery, from prioritization and sprint planning to quality assurance, reliable releases, and continuous product improvement.
- You evaluate new technologies, platform decisions, and integrations from technological, economic, and strategic perspectives.
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Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- Strong leadership skills and ownership: You can develop teams, set standards, demand responsibility, and at the same time create a productive, motivating work culture.
- Ability to structure technical complexity in a management-appropriate manner, prepare well-founded decisions transparently, and combine technical excellence with economic thinking, organizational development, and strategic scaling.
Experience
- Several years of experience in both technical and disciplinary leadership of development teams, ideally in a SaaS, platform, or scale-up environment.
- Extensive experience in software development, ideally in backend, fullstack, or cloud-native platform development.
- Proven experience in cloud architecture, system design, APIs, security concepts, and technical scaling of software products.
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What we offer
- An exciting CTO / Co-Managing Director role with technical and entrepreneurial responsibility from Day 1.
- Direct influence on product, platform, architecture, team building, delivery model, and scaling strategy.
- A growing SaaS product with strong market potential, high customer demand, and significant scope for development.
- A modern, ambitious, and collaborative work environment where technical excellence, speed, and entrepreneurial thinking come together.
- Attractive compensation package and a permanent employment contract.
- Numerous corporate benefits, such as individual training opportunities through the HOCHTIEF Academy, corporate health management, membership with Wellpass, Jobrad, and much more.
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Benefits
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Hochtief AG
Hochtief is a world-leading provider of technology-oriented services for the infrastructure industry. With core competencies in construction, services and concessioning / public-private partnerships (PPP), the company is active in Australia, North America and Europe.
Description
- Company Type
- Established Company
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Construction, Real Estate, Building Services
CTO / Co-Managing Director
- Location
- Essen
- Working Model
- Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
