CTO

<p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>About Us</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Atria is an AI-powered ad creative workflow platform designed to help marketing teams generate more revenue by producing winning ads more efficiently. </p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Trusted by top brands like Ryze Superfoods, Solawave, and Loop Earplugs, as well as forward-thinking agencies such as Power Digital, Inspire Digital, and Disruptive Digital, Atria focuses on enhancing performance across Meta and TikTok channels.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We're 3 years in, already profitable, and building for the next stage of scale.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Team & environment</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">You'll lead a lean, high-output org around 10 developers mixed with frontend, backend, ML and QA. We're remote and move fast.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>What you'll do</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>1. Enterprise platform architecture (foundations + technical strategy)</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Define and evolve the target architecture for a scalable SaaS platform (availability, performance, cost, and maintainability).</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Build enterprise-ready foundations: reliability, observability, incident response, data governance, access control, auditability, and operational maturity.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Set clear technical standards: service boundaries, API contracts, data architecture, testing strategy, CI/CD, release practices, and rollback strategy.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Establish a pragmatic roadmap for platform modernization without slowing feature delivery.</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>2. Engineering execution (accountability, aggressive deadlines, unblocking)</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Turn company goals into a delivery machine: clear priorities, scoped milestones, strong ownership, and consistent shipping cadence.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Build and run execution rituals: planning, estimation, weekly delivery checkpoints, tech reviews, postmortems, and quality gates.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Identify bottlenecks early (people/process/tech) and unblock quickly—especially cross team dependencies between engineering, design, and GTM.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Raise the engineering bar: code review culture, system design quality, testing discipline, and operational excellence.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Own staffing plans: hiring, onboarding, performance management, leveling, and growth paths for engineers and tech leads.</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>3. Cross-functional leadership & communication</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Translate business priorities into technical plans that the CEO and non-technical stakeholders can trust.<br>Communicate trade-offs clearly (speed vs. correctness, cost vs. scale, build vs. buy).</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Build a high-trust culture across a distributed team with strong written documentation and crisp decision-making.</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>What we're looking for</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Proven CTO / VP Eng / Head of Engineering experience scaling a SaaS product from an early stage toward enterprise-ready.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Strong architecture judgment across: distributed systems, backend services, data pipelines, security, reliability, and cloud infrastructure.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Track record of shipping under aggressive deadlines while improving quality and predictability.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Exceptional people leadership: hiring, coaching, accountability, and building a high performing, low-politics culture.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Fluent English (spoken + written) for leadership communication, documentation, and working with global customers/partners.</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Nice to have</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Experience in ad-tech / marketing tech, creative tooling, analytics, or workflow platforms.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Background working with ML/AI product teams (LLMs, creative generation, MLOps).</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>What We Offer</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Fully remote environment with flexible schedule.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Opportunity to work with cutting-edge GenAI video technology in a fast-growing company.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Collaborative, inclusive culture with a small team and high ownership.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Competitive compensation and benefits package.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Strong opportunities for professional growth and development.</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><em>Kind reminder: No duplicate applications for the same role please. Thanks.</em></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p>