The Chief Technology Officer leads technology vision, architecture strategy, and long-term platform evolution to drive business growth and operational resilience. This executive role involves high-impact architectural decisions, aligning technology strategy with business goals, and overseeing system reliability and security compliance.
Access Softek is a leading provider of digital banking platforms for financial institutions across the U.S.
We are seeking a Chief Technology Officer to define and lead the company’s technology vision, architecture strategy, and long-term platform evolution. This is an executive role responsible for ensuring technology is a core driver of business growth, product scalability, and operational resilience.
As CTO, you will partner with the CEO and executive leadership team to shape company strategy through technology, make high-impact architectural decisions, and ensure the organization is built to scale sustainably.
What You'll own
- Own the company’s technology vision, architecture strategy, and long-term platform direction
- Define how the platform evolves, scales, and remains competitive over time
- Translate business strategy into technology strategy, system architecture, and key technical trade-offs
- Make executive-level decisions on platform design, modernization, and major technology investments
- Own end-to-end system architecture across products and services, ensuring coherence, scalability, and maintainability
- Drive long-term platform evolution, including legacy system strategy and architectural consolidation
- Design and evolve the engineering organization at the executive level, including leadership structure and scaling model
- Own technology risk, including system resilience, security architecture, and compliance (SOC2 and related standards)
- Ensure security and compliance are embedded into system design and engineering practices
- Partner with Product and Business leadership to align roadmap priorities with technical feasibility and long-term strategy
- Align engineering investment and capacity with business goals and growth priorities
- Oversee system reliability, scalability, and observability strategy at the platform level
- Evaluate and drive adoption of emerging technologies (including AI/automation) for strategic advantage
- Lead the company’s adoption of AI technologies and guide its transition toward AI-driven products and operations
- Provide executive-level visibility into platform health, risks, and architectural direction
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering and technology leadership
- Proven experience as a CTO or equivalent executive technology leader in a scaling SaaS or platform company
- Strong track record of owning architecture and platform evolution in large-scale, production systems
- Experience leading and scaling distributed engineering organizations through growth and transformation
- Deep understanding of cloud-native architectures, distributed systems, and platform engineering principles
- Experience operating in regulated or security-critical environments (e.g., fintech, enterprise SaaS)
- Strong executive communication skills with ability to influence CEO and senior leadership decisions
- Demonstrated ability to operate at system, architecture, and business-strategy level
- Strong judgment in balancing speed, scalability, risk, and long-term technical investment
Our Benefits
- Compensation commensurate with experience
- 401(k) retirement savings plan
- Life insurance, short-term and long-term disabilities insurance
- Medical and dental insurance
- Paid vacation and sick leave
- Paid home internet
About the Company:
Access Softek started developing software 30 years ago in Berkeley, California. Now, we have offices all over the United States and around the world, and are growing by the day! Our software is in use by over 350+ financial institutions, helping them to reach millions of customers and shape communities across the country. In addition, we have a technical development and consulting division that works for companies like Google, Sony and Nintendo.
Access Softek Berkeley, California, USA Office
727 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United States, 94710
Similar Jobs
Edtech • Productivity • Social Media • Software
Lead company technology vision and strategy, oversee R&D and deployment of software solutions, build and manage a high-performing engineering team, align technology with business goals, and ensure compliance with relevant laws and regulations.
Agency • Artificial Intelligence • Blockchain • Web3
Lead protocol and backend engineering for a high-performance Solana-based DEX. Architect and implement low-latency trading infrastructure in Rust, develop core exchange primitives (margin, liquidation, liquidity models), audit latency-critical code paths, and mentor teams to maintain rigorous engineering standards and reliability.
Top Skills:
ConcurrencyDecentralized Exchange (Dex)Distributed SystemsLiquidation EngineMatching EngineOn-Chain Execution ModelsOrder Book MechanicsPerpetual Futures/DerivativesRisk Management SystemsRustSolana
Agency • Artificial Intelligence • Blockchain • Web3
Lead end-to-end technology for a greenfield, white-label consumer engagement and rewards platform. Define architecture, build scalable backend and infra for real-time events, points/wallet systems and tokenised rewards, oversee web and mobile products, integrate external systems, ensure production readiness and security, and hire and scale the engineering organisation while transitioning from hands-on delivery to strategic leadership.
Top Skills:
Ci/CdDockerFlutterGCPGoJavaScriptKafkaKotlinKubernetesNode.jsPostgresPythonReact NativeRedisRustSmart ContractsSoliditySwiftTypescriptWallet Integrations
What you need to know about the San Francisco Tech Scene
San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area attracts more startup funding than any other region in the world. Home to Stanford University and UC Berkeley, leading VC firms and several of the world’s most valuable companies, the Bay Area is the place to go for anyone looking to make it big in the tech industry. That said, San Francisco has a lot to offer beyond technology thanks to a thriving art and music scene, excellent food and a short drive to several of the country’s most beautiful recreational areas.
Key Facts About San Francisco Tech
- Number of Tech Workers: 365,500; 13.9% of overall workforce (2024 CompTIA survey)
- Major Tech Employers: Google, Apple, Salesforce, Meta
- Key Industries: Artificial intelligence, cloud computing, fintech, consumer technology, software
- Funding Landscape: $50.5 billion in venture capital funding in 2024 (Pitchbook)
- Notable Investors: Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, Greylock Partners, Khosla Ventures, Kleiner Perkins
- Research Centers and Universities: Stanford University; University of California, Berkeley; University of San Francisco; Santa Clara University; Ames Research Center; Center for AI Safety; California Institute for Regenerative Medicine
