Fractional CTO & Tech Lead
Octapus is a buy / build cybersecurity and cloud platform, focused on the mid-market. We are backed by general institutional venture capital and private equity funds, as well as by world-class angel investors. As a buy-and-build platform, Octapus accelerates growth by acquiring and integrating strategic companies into a seamless, automated one-stop-shop platform. Our mission is to drive operational excellence while scaling our impact across Mexico, the US, and Colombia, where we currently operate, as well as the rest of Latam

The Role
As Fractional CTO, you will serve as our senior-most technical leader on a part-time engagement, providing hands-on architecture guidance, engineering leadership, and security oversight. You'll work closely with the GM, technical team engineers, and (if applicable) outside investors and customers to keep services & product secure, scalable, while helping us define the technical leadership profile and building the case for a full-time CTO hire. This is an interim, high-trust role: you'll set direction now and hand off a well-documented,



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What You'll Doorganization to your eventual full-time successor.

Technical & Security Leadership

● Own technical architecture decisions and roadmap prioritization in partnership with the GM and Cyber team
● Establish and maintain a security-first engineering culture: secure SDLC practices, code review standards, and threat modeling appropriate to a cybersecurity product.
● Assess and shore up the company's own security posture (infrastructure, access controls, data handling) — practicing what the product & services preaches
Team & Process
● Provide technical mentorship and career guidance to engineers.
● Set up (or right-size) engineering processes incident response — for a small team transforming to an A.I first model
● Help recruit and interview engineering and security hires, including your eventual full-time successor.
● Document architecture decisions,

📌 Fractional CTO (Ciudad de México)
🏢 Octapus
📍 Ciudad de México