CTO

About Airmee
We've completed over 40 million deliveries, serving millions of consumers and some of the largest e-commerce retailers in the Nordics. As a leading home delivery provider in Sweden, we've grown by 50%+ annually and are approaching SEK 1 billion in revenue.

And we're just getting started. With a proven platform, growing market share and significant opportunities ahead, we're entering our next phase of growth.

We're large enough to operate at real scale, yet small enough for one leader to fundamentally change how the company works. We believe technology should remove complexity, not create it.

The Role
We're looking for a CTO to lead the next chapter of our technology platform and turn engineering into a lasting competitive advantage.

This is a builder-operator role. You'll modernize a business-critical platform while keeping a fast-growing, high-volume operation running every day.

Our technology combines a PostgreSQL core, serverless services on AWS, web dashboards and native courier and customer apps. It powers route optimization, live tracking and dynamic ETAs across millions of deliveries.

Your challenge is to evolve this architecture into a reliable, scalable and increasingly automated platform, while driving engineering performance through clear priorities, ownership and disciplined execution.

Reporting directly to the CEO and serving on the Management Team, you'll have the mandate to shape our technology strategy, make critical architectural decisions and ensure technology delivers measurable business impact.

Your mission: enable Airmee to scale faster, without scaling complexity or compromising today's operations.

What success looks like
Within this role you will:

• Modernise the platform without disrupting it - lead the decomposition of our central architecture into isolated, resilient building blocks, sequenced around peak season.
• Make reliability the default - a platform designed for 2x peak volume, with mature observability and real-time systems that hold up under load.
• Build a data platform the business trusts - clear ingestion, transformation and governance layers, and one version of the truth from operational dashboards to Board reporting.
• Make reliability and security the default - establish strong observability, engineering standards and security practices and certifications that scale with the business.
• Build an engineering organisation that absorbs change without losing speed - clear ownership, documentation, modular work and disciplined ways of pausing and restarting.
• Scale our advantage in AI and automation - build on years of AI-driven optimization to accelerate engineering productivity, automate operations and unlock new capabilities.

What you'll own
You'll own:

• Technology strategy and architecture - set the technical direction, make critical architectural decisions and lead platform modernization while balancing long-term investments with business priorities.
• Engineering, Product and Data leadership - ensure teams deliver results with clear ownership, accountability, high standards and speed of execution.
• Platform reliability and performance - ensure our systems are scalable, secure, cost-efficient and reliable across business-critical operations.
• Product and technology delivery - turn business needs into scalable products and capabilities, with predictable delivery, high quality and speed.
• Security and compliance - establish security by design, robust engineering practices and accountability for regulatory requirements.

Who we're looking for
We're looking for a technically exceptional leader who loves building, scaling and operating technology.

Someone who sees technology as the operating system of the business, not a separate function. Who combines long-term architectural thinking with the urgency to deliver results today.

You probably recognize yourself in several of these:

• You've built and scaled business-critical platforms, ideally through significant architectural transitions while maintaining live operations.
• You have deep technical expertise and the judgment to challenge architectural decisions, without needing to make every decision yourself.
• You know how to drive performance and accountability across engineering teams, ensuring priorities translate into measurable results.
• You combine strategic thinking with hands-on execution - comfortable discussing technology strategy with the Management team and diving into technical problems with engineers.
• You know how to prioritize ruthlessly, protect engineering focus and deliver at speed without compromising reliability.
• You believe great systems and strong teams outperform heroic individuals.
• You have a continuous improvement mindset, always looking for ways to develop yourself and your team, and see AI and automation as tools to accelerate progress.
• You understand that great engineering is measured by the business outcomes it enables, not technical sophistication alone.

Experience we're looking for

• Proven experience as a Head of Engineering, VP Engineering or senior engineering leader in a high-growth, operationally intensive business where technology powers live, real-world operations.
• Demonstrated ability to modernize business-critical systems without disrupting daily operations, balancing long-term architectural improvements with reliability, execution and immediate business needs.
• Strong technical background with hands-on experience building, scaling and modernizing complex platforms.
• Track record of driving engineering performance and delivery through clear priorities, accountability and high standards.
• Strong understanding of cloud architecture, distributed systems, scalability, observability and cost efficiency, ideally on AWS.
• Experience working across Product, Engineering and Data, translating business priorities into technology decisions and measurable outcomes.
• Experience with data platforms, real-time systems and optimization is a strong advantage.
• Fluent English. Swedish is a plus.

You understand that tomorrow's technology improvements cannot come at the expense of today's operations.

Why Airmee?
At Airmee, you'll join a company where:

• You'll shape the direction of the business, not just the technology behind it.
• You'll have real ownership over how the platform and the engineering organisation scale.
• You'll build the technical infrastructure behind our journey to SEK 1 billion in revenue-and beyond.
• You'll solve complex problems at real operational scale, working alongside an ambitious management team in a fast-growing, profitable company.
• Your work will leave a lasting impact on how Airmee operates for years to come.

If you're excited by building platforms and organisations that can grow faster without becoming more complex, we'd love to hear from you.