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Sitemate

Chief Technology Officer – CTO

Sitemate

. Own technical direction and engineering execution across Sitemate as a member of the executive team .

Posted 10/19/2026full-timeMelbourne • AustraliaLead💰 A$300,000 per yearWebsite

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Demonstrates expertise in engineering leadership, including team structuring, AI-assisted delivery tooling, and effective hiring practices. Proven ability to drive technical direction and execution while ensuring quality and efficiency in engineering processes.

Highest-signal resume keywords
AI-Assisted Code ReviewEngineering Team StructuringStaff Engineer DevelopmentTypeScript / JavaScriptNode.js

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Hard Skills
AI-Assisted Delivery ToolingCode ReviewDeployment InfrastructureQuality AssuranceFeature FlagsTrunk-Based DevelopmentMongoDBReactAngularAWS
Soft Skills
CoachingLeadershipCommunicationProblem-SolvingCollaboration
Tools & Technologies
QA InfrastructureEngineering ToolingRelease EngineeringSecurity TestingDelivery Metrics
Industry Keywords
High-Growth EngineeringScale-Up TransitionDelivery BottlenecksExecutive LeadershipTechnical Depth

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AngularAWSCloudJavaScriptMongoDBNode.jsReactTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Own technical direction and engineering execution across Sitemate as a member of the executive team
  • Own the engineering delivery system, including Global Platform, EPD Ops, release engineering, QA infrastructure, security posture and engineering tooling
  • Lead engineering organisation design, career tracks and levels, compensation architecture and hiring standards
  • Own quarterly engineering initiative planning, breakdown standards and delivery metrics
  • Turn AI-assisted engineering into increased production throughput while maintaining quality
  • Implement decoupled deployment and release using feature flags, staged rollouts, fast rollback and trunk-based development
  • Own verification through strict typing, schema contracts, integrated QA and security testing
  • Improve multi-writer record safety through field-level saves, conflict detection, live sync and attribution
  • Shape the forward-deployed engineering model and customer-facing handoffs
  • Personally review code and ship alongside the team
  • Run weekly delivery-constraint reviews
  • Coach Staff Engineers and Tech Leads
  • Make build/buy/partner and vendor decisions for the platform, tooling and AI stack
  • Represent engineering to the CEO, executive team and board
  • Represent Sitemate technically to customers and candidates

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Led engineering through a high-growth, high-change period, ideally including a scale-up transition and a shift in how the team builds software
  • Direct, hands-on experience with AI-assisted or agentic code review and delivery tooling
  • Strong point of view on structuring engineering teams and ownership as they scale
  • Experience hiring and developing staff-level engineers and technical leads
  • Proven ability to diagnose and remove delivery bottlenecks across review, deployment and quality
  • Genuine, current hands-on technical depth, including ability to explain a recent technical decision in detail
  • Direct experience with agentic delivery infrastructure, including sandboxes, eval harnesses, deterministic gates and AI-assisted review
  • Track record of compressing timelines and resisting process or tooling for its own sake
  • Experience building and developing a staff engineering or technical leadership layer
  • Comfort operating between engineering and executive leadership, including board exposure
  • TypeScript / JavaScript
  • Node.js
  • React or Angular
  • MongoDB
  • AWS or a comparable cloud platform
  • Full permanent work rights
  • Willingness to work from the Melbourne office at least 2 days per week if based in Melbourne, or relocate to Melbourne within 3 months if not already based there

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Equity
  • 20 days annual leave plus sick, carer's and compassionate leave
  • 16 weeks primary and 6 weeks secondary carer parental leave
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Learning and development budget
  • Home office setup
  • Weekly catered lunches
  • Work-from-anywhere weeks
  • Flex days
  • Full transparency of metrics, hiring plans, financial performance, levels, career frameworks and pay ranges