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Chief Technology Officer (Canada)

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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

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.

Job details

Workplace

Office

Location

Canada

Experience

Access Softek

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Access Softek’s innovative financial software solutions keep 400+ credit unions and banks ahead of the technological curve. Our Access Digital banking platform delivers the innovative features that users demand, the security that financial institutions need, and the technology needed to compete in today’s market. Fintech innovation is our passion. Our clients are first-to-market with dozens of new features like biometrics banking, wearable apps, passwordless authentication, and real-time mobile deposits. Today, we offer an enterprise suite of cutting-edge digital banking tools: mobile banking platforms, online banking platforms, the best lending apps, account opening software, integrated robo-advisor and automated investment tools, real-time fraud control, conversational banking, video chat, commercial banking, biometric authentication, banking chatbots, data feed, and more. We started out in 1986 as a custom development shop with a focus on financial software solutions. Leading high-tech companies like Microsoft, Apple and Sony partnered with us because of our proven ability to solve complex problems with cutting-edge technology. Today we rank among the top digital banking providers, with offices in Berkeley, New York City, Chicago and Vancouver.

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Employees

229

Industry

Software Development

Headquarters

Berkeley, CA

Founded

1986

Company location

727 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94710, US

Specialties

Mobile Banking, Mobile Locator, OFX Server, Funds Transfer, Online Banking, Robo-advisor, Biometric Authentication, Video Chat, Chatbot, Fraud Detection, Artificial Intelligence, Omnichannel Account Opening, Omnichannel Lending, Remote Deposit Capture, Communications Manager, Biometric Authentication, and Cryptocurrency

Key team members

Chris Doner

Jim Reinhart

Tom Lester

Larry Blaney

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