Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Location: Fortitude Valley (Brisbane) / Hybrid

Position Description

Role Overview

The Chief Technology Officer ( CTO) is a hands-on, engineering-driven leadership role responsible for shaping Antero’s software architecture, guiding the modernisation of its platform stack, and mentoring the next generation of developers.

This role suits a principal-level developer who has built SDKs and frameworks used by others and who can lead the evolution of a mature SaaS product into a modern, flexible platform.

The CTO Will

• Lead a comprehensive technical discovery of Antero’s current product architecture and development practices.
• Assess opportunities for improvement and recommend a modernisation strategy that enhances scalability, maintainability, and developer productivity.
• Actively write and review production code, particularly within Antero’s SDK and shared library ecosystem.
• Shape the end-to-end developer experience — from onboarding and tooling, to workflows, mentorship, and career development — ensuring every engineer can deliver their best work.
• Collaborate closely with the executive team on broader business strategy, delivery, cybersecurity and innovation beyond core technology.

Key Responsibilities

Technology Leadership & Modernisation

• Lead a full assessment of the current Laravel/React environment to identify strengths, risks, and areas for modernisation.
• Define and implement a forward-looking technology roadmap that aligns with business priorities and supports product scalability.
• Architect a next-generation platform model leveraging modern paradigms such as microservices, serverless computing, and event-driven design.
• Develop and maintain Antero’s internal Software Development Kit (SDK) to standardise product components and integration patterns.
• Embed observability practices (metrics, logging, and tracing) to ensure system performance, reliability, and visibility at scale.
• Champion code confidence by defining and enforcing automated testing strategies, quality gates, and CI/CD practices that give developers certainty in the reliability of every release.

Hands-on Development

• Contribute directly to Antero’s SDK and core codebases.
• Build frameworks, services, and APIs that drive developer efficiency and scalability.
• Lead by example through high-quality, maintainable, well-documented code, and independently testable code.

Mentorship & Technical Culture

• Provide regular 1-on-1 coaching and technical guidance to developers across all levels.
• Foster a culture of craftsmanship, learning, and peer review.
• Lead internal workshops on emerging technologies and modern design patterns.

Collaboration & Strategic Delivery

• Partner with executive peers to ensure technology supports Antero’s growth strategy and product roadmap.
• Provide architectural direction across client projects, SaaS products, and internal initiatives.
• Act as a senior voice in technical planning, risk identification, and solution design.

Essential

Skills & Experience

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with a strong history of hands-on coding and architecture design.
• Proven experience developing and maintaining SDKs or developer-facing frameworks.
• Demonstrated success modernising or re-platforming large-scale systems.
• Strong knowledge of modern backend ecosystems (Node.js, Go, Python, PHP) and front-end technologies (React, Next.js, TypeScript).
• Deep understanding of microservices, serverless architecture, and scalable SaaS design.
• Experience building and operating systems with strong observability (distributed tracing, metrics, log correlation).
• Proficiency in AWS or similar cloud environments and modern CI/CD workflows.
• Strong mentorship and leadership experience across multidisciplinary teams.

Desirable

• Experience assessing and transitioning legacy systems to service-based or event-driven architectures.
• Background in financial services or regulated environments.
• Open-source contribution or published SDK/project experience.

Why Join Antero

You’ll be joining at a pivotal moment, leading the next phase of Antero’s technology evolution while remaining deeply connected to hands-on software engineering. You’ll have the autonomy to shape how our products are built, the tools developers use, and the technical standards that define Antero’s future. Antero offers a collaborative, transparent culture that values growth, innovation, and craftsmanship.

If this sounds like your kind of place the next steps for you to follow are:

• email a copy of your CV / Portfolio / GoPro video to ***email_hidden***
• within a few days you’ll receive a tech test which helps us to better understand your skill level and where you’ll fit in the team
• for those who successfully complete the tech test you will receive an interview where we can discuss your results and where you might fit within our team