Hi there 👋

I’m Joonas, CEO and founder of MeetingPackage. We’re hiring a strategic yet hands-on Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to lead our next chapter. In this role, you’ll set technology strategy and architecture, grow and inspire a high-performing, highly engaged engineering team, mentor and coach engineers, and collaborate effectively across departments and teams. 

You’ll lead our ~20-person Engineering team, guiding day-to-day execution and long-term vision. You'll partner closely with Product to move fast while upholding quality. You’ll live our core values daily: Transparency, ownership, teamwork, ambition, and laughter. This new global leadership role is based anywhere in Europe, with regular time at our Espoo HQ in Finland. 

As a member of the Management Team, you’ll shape company-wide decisions and build a culture of technical excellence and cross-functional collaboration. Our Engineering team builds the technology that enables suppliers and bookers to have a seamless group-booking experience on our platform while being connected to different integration systems. This unique position sets us apart in the hospitality industry, and we’re continually strengthening it with targeted technical improvements and automation. 

 Now, let's see what our technologies and tools look like in Engineering:

• React, TypeScript, Redux, Next.js, and Tailwind on the front-end. 
• Node.js with Nest.js and TypeScript on the backend.
• PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB for databases.
• PHP for the older parts of our service. We're constantly working on converting our codebase to the new tech stack. 
• Figma for our design. 
• Tailwind and Storybook. We have a custom component library you'll love.
• Github, Slack, Notion, Linear, Miro, are used to manage our work.
• AWS for the cloud.
• Other modern software. GitHub's Copilot, ChatGPT. CleanShot, Loom

Learn more about our 2024 journey and explore our customers and the products we build. 

Why you’d like it here if you

• Are excited to join a fast-growing SaaS company and want to contribute to our technology and culture. Impact matters more than the title.  🙌
• Like balancing big-picture with hands-on problem solving. You set the technology strategy & vision while rolling up your sleeves where it matters. 
• See AI as essential to building better products and experiences for our customers.
• Care about teamwork, and you know culture is as important as the products we build. We value transparency, ownership, teamwork, ambition, and laughter. 
• enjoy working in a global, distributed team and collaborating across time zones and locations. Our Engineering team is currently mainly spread across Europe. 🌍

In this role, you will

• Own the technology strategy and vision. Define and deliver a roadmap that balances innovation, scalability, reliability, security, and developer experience. You translate business needs into a clear, executable plan with measurable outcomes.
• Scale our platform. Architect and evolve systems for international growth, complex integrations, analytics, and AI-first capabilities. Ensure the platform is secure, performant, and observable.
• Lead the Engineering teams. Hire, coach, and inspire high-performing, engaged teams across locations and time zones.
• Build an Engineering culture. Set the bar and drive technical excellence, ownership across the Engineering.
• Collaborate across teams. Partner with internal teams to create solutions.
• Join our Management Team. Work closely with our CEO, Joonas, and advise the rest of the Management Team with real-time engineering and performance insights.

You'll feel at home if you

• Have 10+ years of senior engineering leadership  experience (CTO, VP of Engineering, or similar) focusing on SaaS or related tech industries. 
• Have scaled engineering teams and operations through multiple stages, e.g., from ~20 to 100+ people by designing the engineering teams and organisation, improving operational efficiency, hiring and leading at every level (ICs, engineering managers, and senior engineering leaders), implementing effective delivery practices, and continually evolving the culture
• Partner directly with the C-level and management team to drive strategic initiatives and deliver company goals. 
• Bring architectural depth and set a clear technical direction for scalable, secure, and resilient platforms, and lead major modernization and migration initiatives. 
• Have AI product experience, embedding AI/ML into SaaS products. 
• Be both a strategist and hands-on where it matters - own the architecture roadmap, translate data into decisions, and align cross-functional teams. 
• Take ownership and show ambition, continuously improving engineering excellence while exploring and learning new ideas. 
• Constantly improve and raise the bar for security, compliance, and reliability practices. You are familiar with ISO 27001 (or equivalents; you’ve led security reviews, audits, or compliance programs.
• Live our core values daily: Transparency, Ownership, Teamwork, Ambition, and Laughter. 
• Communicate fluently in English, both written and spoken. 
• Are based in Europe and can travel to our Espoo HQ in Finland regularly as needed. 

Why now is a great time to join?

• Your impact matters. In this new global leadership role in engineering and as CTO, your decisions will directly shape how our business performs and what we achieve together.
• We’re on the move. With enough capital to fuel our growth, we’re committed to finding the best people to help build a company everyone enjoys working at.
• You’re joining a team, not just a company. Together, we celebrate, brainstorm, and occasionally indulge in Tuesday pizza parties during our bi-weekly team meetings at the Espoo office.
• The industry is evolving. Hotels and venues have been manually managing group (+9 bedrooms in one go) and meetings and event bookings for a long time. We’re helping our customers and the industry move meeting and event bookings online. AI is accelerating this shift, and we want to stay ahead.
• You’re in good care. Our compensation package includes salary and stock options. In addition, we offer a flexible working model (hybrid or on-site, based on your preference and location), healthcare, a working-from-home budget, and company events that bring everyone together twice a year.

Our hiring process

1. Recruiter  Screening with our Head of People
2. First Interview with our CEO
3. Home Assignment
4. Panel Interview with our Engineering and Product leaders + MGMT team
5. Final interview with our CEO

About MeetingPackage 

We are a software company that allows hotels and event venues to sell, operate, and manage their Meetings & Events spaces and services. We improve the Meetings & Events booking process for meeting planners and event venues. We integrate with venues’ existing Property Management, Sales & Catering, and back-office solutions while delivering products to all customer-facing channels. Products include Venue & Sales Management Software, an online Booking Engine, and a Meetings & Events-specific Channel Manager. We will provide more than 1 billion USD of annual revenues to our venue partners by the end of 2025. 🚀