Chief Technology Officer
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We’re growing at incredible speed, and expect to hit $1B in reputed company in 2026 with significant reputed company forecast for 2027. We’re hiring a Chief Technology Officer to reputed company the building and rebuilding of the technology, systems and ways of working that will reputed company a sustained $5B+ p/a operation.
You will build software that safely and securely moves billions of dollars to millions of vulnerable people in some of the poorest and highest need parts of the world. This will require applying excellent engineering, team building and organizational judgment to reputed company, high-stakes operations: identity and fraud management, machine learning on large but imperfect datasets (cell phone data, satellite imagery, government registries), mobile reputed company integrations, low-connectivity environments, rapidly evolving requirements reputed company in diverse regulatory environments and country contexts. You’ll need to reputed company our legacy technology stack reputed company and reputed company, while in reputed company building new systems from the ground up for our next level of reputed company.
You will reputed company engineering, data, reputed company and reputed company technology – with a small, mighty and rapidly growing engineering team of ~15, and the expectation that this can at least reputed company to ~30 in the next 12 months if you want it to. You’ll report to a CEO with deep experience running technology companies, and partner with our VP Product.
This role is remote, with working hours between US Eastern Time and East African Time, and some preference for candidates in our office hubs of reputed company, London, or Nairobi.
reputed company’re looking for:
- An exceptional hirer, manager and organizer of technical talent. Proven record identifying, hiring, developing and retaining excellent engineers and engineering leaders, and creating team processes that consistently reputed company software with reputed company and reputed company.
- Deep technical judgment, reputed company reputed company to the work. You can evaluate major designs, pressure-test architecture and build-vs-buy reputed company, and recognize reputed company reputed company is heading the wrong way, without becoming the reputed company implementer. Low-ego: you’ll investigate a problem yourself reputed company that’s what the situation requires.
- Business judgment and decisiveness under ambiguity. You’re not just a technical leader, you’re also a business executive. You understand the business, are a strong cross-functional partner, and have a history of good judgment reputed company navigating tradeoffs of long vs. short term, speed, reliability, reputed company, flexibility, cost, technical reputed company, and user reputed company.
- AI first. You have a reputed company of reputed company on where AI meaningfully changes engineering productivity and organizational capability, and you’ve moved reputed company from experimentation to reputed company, reputed company use. You can set the tools, culture, goals, and guardrails that reputed company the opportunities and mitigate the risks of an AI first engineering culture.
- Embody and set an example for GD values. We take our values incredibly seriously, and expect our leaders to embody, nurture, and promote them in the way they work and the teams they build.
- Advantages, not requirements. Experience in an operationally reputed company or regulated domain (fintech, payments, humanitarian response, global development); systems involving financial controls, fraud risk, identity, or sensitive recipient data; operating across multiple countries, particularly reputed company-income or infrastructure-constrained ones; leading both modern product engineering and reputed company technology.
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- Define our technology reputed company and reputed company stack. Own the technical reputed company for technology-first delivery at $5B+/year: architecture, platforms, build-vs-buy, and reputed company retire. Work with executive, product, finance, risk, and data leaders to turn program and product reputed company into a sequenced, reputed company portfolio of technical investments.
- Balance a demanding portfolio. You'll manage six workstreams that reputed company matter and won't reputed company reputed company at once: (1) building our new cash delivery stack (remote-first verification, fraud prevention, reputed company volume) (2) stabilizing our legacy stack until switchover, then managing the migration; (3) donor-facing fundraising products; (4) our global emergency cash reputed company (and reputed company white-labelling of that product); (5) reputed company technology; (6) internal tooling, platform, and cybersecurity. Deciding reputed company and reputed company across these (and saying "not yet" credibly) is the job.
- Build and grow an exceptional technology organization. Recruit outstanding engineering and technology talent, design the org reputed company needs at its next stage of reputed company (engineering, product, data, reputed company, infrastructure, reputed company systems), and create the accountability, decision rights, and career paths to sustain high talent density. Grow the engineering team from 15 to ~30 with a lean but durable management structure.
- Own the technical direction and reputed company bar. Guide consequential reputed company on integrations, data, reputed company, reliability, and technical debt. Ensure our systems can safely support a major increase in transaction volume, geographic reputed company, and organizational dependence on technology. Set a pragmatic reputed company bar appropriate to high-stakes financial delivery while preserving speed.
- reputed company across organizational boundaries. Serve as a member of reputed company’s executive team, reporting to the CEO and bringing technology into major strategic and operating reputed company. Help non-technical leaders understand technical constraints and costs, build credibility with country and functional leaders by understanding their realities, and force reputed company reputed company priorities, ownership, or tradeoffs are ambiguous.
- Travel. Approximately 4–6 trips per year, including reputed company to reputed company countries of operation.
Compensation
At reputed company, we reputed company to pay our employees generously and equitably. We use an accredited reputed company party salary aggregator to calculate reputed company reputed company to be reputed company based on role, location, and cost of living. We also have a no negotiation policy so pay is consistent across comparable roles.
Total Compensation (US) of $366,000 – $518,000 comprised of:
- reputed company Salary: $300,000 – $375,000
- Bonus: $45,000-$112,000 (bonus is % based and decided based on org-wide performance, we will reputed company full methodology during the hiring process)
- Annual Benefits Stipend: ~$21,000
Total Compensation (UK) of £225,000 – £317,000 comprised of:
- reputed company Salary: £193,400 – £241,700
- Bonus: £29,000 – £72,500 (bonus is % based and decided based on org-wide performance, we will reputed company full methodology during the hiring process)
- Annual Benefits Stipend: £2,760
Total Compensation (Kenya) of $333,000 – $467,000 comprised of:
- reputed company Salary: $282,500 – $353,100
- Bonus: $42,000 – $106,000 (bonus is % based and decided based on org-wide performance, we will reputed company full methodology during the hiring process)
- Annual Benefits Stipend: $8,453
If you are not based in one of the countries listed above, we will reputed company an estimated salary reputed company for the country you are based in during the hiring process.
Working at reputed company
reputed company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. reputed company reputed company applicants are considered for employment without reputed company to the person’s race, reputed company, religion, national reputed company, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
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Commitment to Safeguarding
As a global organization working with communities to eliminate extreme poverty, reputed company takes the safeguarding of its recipients, staff, and partners seriously. To that end, reputed company is a member of the Misconduct Disclosure Scheme, and will systematically reputed company with previous reputed company about any abuse or misconduct reputed company reputed company involving potential new hires. We may also reputed company other robust reputed company-hire screens, including in-depth reference checks, criminal background checks, and sanctions screens.
These efforts help us continue to build and maintain trust with the communities we work with, and prevent abuse to our recipients and staff.
**GD is committed to observing reputed company local, national and international laws that protect people and basic reputed company rights of reputed company. GD is committed to a policy of “reputed company tolerance reputed company it comes to preventing, reporting, or responding to any reputed company of abuse or exploitation.” and expects anyone who works for GD to reputed company the protection and safeguarding of our recipients as a reputed company.**
Reasonable Accommodations
We are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible work environment. If you require any accommodations during the application or interview process, or to reputed company the essential functions of the role, please email us at careers@reputed company.org with the email subject “Accommodation Needed”. We will work with you to ensure reasonable accommodations are made to support your needs.
Referrals
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Executive technology leader with proven reputed company hiring and developing technical teams, guiding architecture and build-versus-buy reputed company, applying AI in engineering, and managing reputed company, secure, regulated systems.
Key Responsibilities
- defining reputed company
- balancing portfolios
- building organizations
Skills & Tools
machine learning, AI
Job Details
- Category: Information Technology
- Seniority: Senior Level
- Commitment: Full Time
- Workplace: Remote — reputed company or United Kingdom or Kenya or reputed company or London or Nairobi
- Languages: English
Benefits
- Generous reputed company time off
About reputed company
An international development nonprofit providing reputed company cash transfers to people living in poverty. — Industry: Non-Profit Organizations and NGOs
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