CTO (Java / Kotlin / React)

Columbia, US Until 8/23/2026 8+ years exp First posted June 10, 2025 Last posted June 10, 2025
Job description

Chief Technology Officer

Testery is a next-generation test orchestration cloud that runs millions of automated tests per month, empowering our customers to ship better quality software, faster. We tackle the technical complexity of running even the largest, most complicated test suites quickly and reliably so our customers can get back to focusing on features.

As Chief Technology Officer, you will have a pivotal role in enhancing the capabilities of our next-generation testing grid. This is a unique role that will draw on your experience from all areas of software development, including coding, testing, deploying, provisioning infrastructure, leveraging AI, managing distributed systems, and more.

We are a growing startup, so the ideal candidate will be entrepreneurial and excited about the opportunity to grow and adapt along with our company. This is an opportunity to start out hands-on and establish your dream engineering team as the company continues to grow.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Developing new features and managing the infrastructure for our next-generation test orchestration cloud.
  • Designing, implementing, maintaining, and testing the Testery website/application and the REST API that powers it.
  • Hiring, training, coaching, and managing the engineering team.
  • Adapting your role as the company grows.

Required Skills & Experience

  • 8+ years of software development experience in Java/Kotlin.
  • Past track record of putting in place and leading a high-performing engineering team.
  • Recent hands-on, development experience in Java/Kotlin.
  • Writing automated tests (jUnit, Selenium, Cucumber, or Specflow).
  • Working with E2E testing frameworks (Cypress, Playwright, Selenium, …).
  • Designing and building REST APIs.
  • Working with both relational and non-relational databases (SQL, Postgres).
  • Configuring CI/CD servers (AppVeyor, Teamcity, or Jenkins).
  • Experience with Amazon Web Services.

Desired Qualifications & Experience

  • Developing behavior-driven development (BDD) tests.
  • Working with containerization technologies (e.g. Docker).
  • Building, testing, and deploying B2B SaaS products.
  • Previous roles related specifically to quality assurance and test automation.

About Testery:

Testery is a test orchestration cloud that runs millions of automated tests every month and is significantly faster, more reliable, and more cost effective than running your tests on traditional testing grids. For more information about Testery, visit us at https://testery.com.

About this role

Summary

Lead software development, manage engineering team, develop testing infrastructure, and oversee cloud test orchestration.

Job title

CTO (Java / Kotlin / React)

Experience level

8+ years

Minimum experience

8+ years exp

Industry

software

Location requirements

Columbia, US; remote work not specified

Salary

Not specified

Management role

Yes

Skills & keywords

Required skills

javakotlinautomated testingrest APIssqlpostgresci/cdaws

Preferred skills

bdd testsdockersaastest automation

Specializations

javakotlinreacttest automationcloud
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Columbia, SC, USA

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