Chief Technology Officer
Summary
Executive CTO role in Kuala Lumpur: own the technical vision, architecture, and engineering standards across all products, lead the senior leadership team, and manage uptime, infrastructure, and tech debt. Requires 10+ years in engineering including 5 in technical leadership, with hands-on architecture experience across web, mobile, backend, and infrastructure.
Salary: RM 18,000 – RM 25,000 per month
Key Responsibilities:
Own the technical vision and architecture across all platforms and products
Set and maintain engineering standards - code quality, security, scalability, and reliability
Lead and develop the Senior Leadership Team (SLT)
Drive technical decisions that balance speed, quality, and long-term scalability
Own platform uptime, infrastructure, and incident response standards
Align engineering capacity and priorities with product and business goals
Identify and resolve technical debt, risks, and bottlenecks before they become blockers
Build a high-performance engineering culture - high standards, fast delivery, continuous learning
Evaluate and adopt new technologies that improve capability or efficiency
Represent technical strategy and risks to the executive team and board
Requirements:
10+ years in engineering, with at least 5 years in a technical leadership role
Hands-on background - has built and shipped products, not just managed engineers
Proven experience scaling engineering teams and platforms in a fast-moving environment
Strong architecture knowledge across web, mobile, backend, and infrastructure
Able to bridge technical and business conversations - translates complexity into clarity
High standards - sets the bar and holds the team to it