Annapurna
Chief Technology Officer
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Chief Technology Officer
📍 Location: Soho, London (Hybrid – 3 days onsite)
💰 Salary: Up to £150,000 + performance bonus + equity
🕒 Type: Permanent
My client is a leading personal trainer software platform used by coaches, gyms, and fitness brands worldwide. The platform enables trainers to create, sell, and scale fitness, health, and lifestyle programmes online.
With a proven product, circa £2M ARR, and ambitious plans to scale to £10M+, they are now entering their next phase of growth and building the leadership team to support that journey.
What You'll Be Doing
- Define and deliver their technology vision and roadmap towards £10M+ ARR
- Lead the transition from outsourced development to a high-performing in-house engineering team
- Build the engineering organisation, hiring strategy, and leadership structure
- Own architecture decisions, platform modernisation, and technical direction
- Improve scalability, reliability, security, and engineering standards
- Establish strong engineering processes around delivery, testing, CI/CD, and observability
- Build an excellent engineering culture focused on ownership and continuous improvement
- Partner closely with product leadership to align technology decisions with business goals
- Develop engineering leaders and create a scalable team structure
- Champion the use of AI and data to improve engineering velocity and product outcomes
- Communicate technical strategy, risks, and investment needs to the wider leadership team
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What They're Looking For
- Proven CTO, VP Engineering, or senior technology leadership experience within a startup or scale-up environment
- Experience building engineering teams and bringing capability in-house
- Strong architectural judgement across SaaS platforms, APIs, infrastructure, and security
- Ability to stay technically credible while leading through teams and managers
- Experience managing hybrid teams including employees, outsourced partners, and distributed teams
- Experience delivering native mobile applications across iOS and Android
- Track record of using AI to improve engineering, product delivery, or operations
- Strong commercial mindset with the ability to connect technology decisions to business outcomes
- Experience partnering with product and commercial leaders at executive level
- Clear communicator who can simplify complex technical decisions
- Comfortable operating in fast-changing, ambiguous environments
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Nice to Have
- Experience with Ruby on Rails platforms
- Experience with subscription or marketplace businesses
- Experience working with payment platforms such as Stripe
- Experience scaling consumer-facing SaaS products
Current Tech Landscape
- Ruby on Rails API (Ruby 2.6 / Rails 5.2)
- PostgreSQL, Redis, Sidekiq, AWS S3, and Stripe
- Vue 2 frontend with TypeScript
- Native iOS (Swift) and Android (Kotlin)
- Infrastructure including Sentry, Datadog, Mixpanel, Intercom, Firebase, and GitLab CI
Why Join?
- Become their first CTO and shape the technical future of a global fitness platform
- Executive leadership role with direct influence on company strategy
- Build and lead a world-class engineering team from the ground up
- Modernise a proven platform and define the next generation of the product
- Meaningful equity stake aligned with company growth
- Up to £150k base salary + performance bonus
- Hybrid working from a Soho, London office
- Company pension scheme
- 30 days holiday plus national holidays
- Collaborative culture with regular socials and strong work-life balance
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