Chief Technology Officer - Player​/Coach PE backed scale-up; Remote Europe

Location: Remote-first (UK/Europe-based) with monthly in-person days in the UK (typically Manchester
, 2 days)

Compensation
: £150k base + bonus (structure to be agreed, tied to delivery)

Reports to
:
Co-Founders

Seniority Level: SLT

Team
: ~12 in Engineering today, scaling thoughtfully as we grow

Click Tech is a global AdTech and EdTech company empowering the next generation of digital entrepreneurs. Through our award-winning suite of advertising tools and our flagship platform Click Tech HUB
, we make AI, digital marketing, and entrepreneurial education accessible to everyone — from freelancers and small business owners to agency leaders and ambitious professionals.

We already support over 50,000 businesses in 135+ countries
, and we’re just getting started.

We operate two business models:

We’re PE-backed with long-term investors and are scaling from ~50 people to ~100 over the next 12 months. The goal: aggressive scale without the wheels falling off.

We’re hiring a full-time CTO to replace our interim CTO.

This is a role for an entrepreneurial builder-operator
: curious, driven, commercial, and technically credible. Someone who can run a high-performance engineering org, stay close to the product, and introduce just enough operational structure (release/incident/standards) to increase reliability and predictability—without creating bureaucracy.

In the early months you’ll be hands-on (“player/coach”)—close to architecture, delivery, and unblocking. Over time, as the company scales, you’ll transition into more of an org-scaling CTO while keeping a builder mindset.

Our culture is explicitly high-performance and outcome-focused:

• Act fast, learn faster (speed + iteration over perfection)

• Build with impact (outcomes over output)

• Own the outcome (high autonomy + high accountability)

• Raise the bar, then raise it again

• Win together (no ego, strong collaboration)

• Obsess over the customer and long-term value (retention and expansion matter)

We work in Pods aligned to company OKRs
. Each pod has a clear lead as the final decision maker to avoid committee drag.

Remote-first, flexible hours — but we expect flexibility back when the business needs it (incidents, urgent customer-impacting issues).

1) Technology & delivery leadership

• Own Engineering and Dev Ops/SRE (data/security ownership to be shaped as we scale)

• Keep the Microsoft legacy model stable and well-supported

• Drive the build-out of Click Tech HUB + Omni AI into a broader ecosystem (education → gamification → creator marketplace → remuneration engine)

2) Reliability and “foundations for scale”

Our biggest pain points today are release reliability, quality/reliability, and delivery predictability (without heavy process). You’ll:

• Introduce pragmatic release management (lightweight but real)

• Establish incident management and clearer comms during issues

• Improve testing discipline (coverage and the right tests in the right places)

• Strengthen observability and bug-clearance focus

• Set practical standards (checklists + automation where it matters)

3) People + performance

• Continue building a high-performance culture: high ownership, high throughput, high standards

• Increase ownership and accountability across pod leads / team leads

• Coach, develop, and retain strong engineers in an autonomous environment

• Partner tightly with SLT (Head of Product, CMO, CFO) and be a strong voice in quarterly priority setting

Org note
: we have a VP of Engineering; this role will partner closely with them. Current intent is that the VP Eng drives tech quality, while the CTO owns people leadership and org performance, delivery outcomes, and alignment with founders/SLT.

In the first 90 days

• You deeply understand the product, users, unit economics, and the real bottlenecks behind incidents

• You’ve implemented a lightweight release/rollback discipline that reduces avoidable…