Chief Technology Officer

The role

InfoPay, Inc. runs a portfolio of public records and data brands, including GoodCar,

CourtCaseFinder, PropertyChecker and EntityCheck, with a distributed team across the

U.S., Spain, Armenia and the Philippines.

The CTO owns every technical aspect of the business: platform, architecture,

infrastructure, security and the engineering team. You set technical standards, keep

systems running and secure, and fix deficiencies fast. You also sit at the leadership table,

weighing in on the cost, complexity, revenue impact and timing of every major initiative.

This is a hands-on executive role: you lead the team and can still dig into the code when

needed.

Reports to: CEO

Peer group: CBO and COO

Direct reports: Ten software engineers and one Scrum Master across Armenia, the

Philippines, Spain and our Boston office

Location / work model: Boston, MA – hybrid, in office Monday–Wednesday, remote

Thursday and Friday

Leadership & team

• Lead, grow and scale the engineering, infrastructure and system administration teams,
• including full-time staff and contractors across multiple time zones.
• Own technical hiring, onboarding, performance reviews and offboarding, including
• access provisioning and removal. Build a management layer as the team grows.
• Know each engineer's strengths, gaps and output; set clear expectations and run
• regular 1:1s and targeted coaching.
• Set team goals and OKRs, track delivery and productivity metrics, balance workloads
• to capacity, and clear blockers quickly.
• Partner with the CEO, COO and business leaders; translate technical tradeoffs into
• cost, revenue and timeline terms.
• Explain products, data and algorithms in plain language to executives, partners, attorneys and customers.
• Report to the CEO on system health, incidents and their resolution, and technical risk.

Technology & architecture

• Own the technical architecture and roadmap across our core platform (V5), checkout
• service, consumer sites, APIs, teasers and CMS, choosing the right technologies and
• improving how systems work together.
• Lead modernization of our large legacy PHP monolith, including migrations between
• PHP frameworks (Yii and Laravel) and migrations of live customer data and services
• such as authentication and checkout, without disrupting revenue.
• Design and scale our high-traffic platform on AWS: load balancing, autoscaling, high
• availability and PHP-FPM performance tuning.
• Build and run event-driven and asynchronous systems: queues, caching, retries, data
• consistency and fault tolerance.
• Oversee our data and search layer, including a large-scale MongoDB environment
• alongside MySQL, Redis and OpenSearch/Elasticsearch: indexing, query performance,
• integrity and cost.
• Evaluate new technologies, data vendors and contracts for value, cost and fit, and find
• savings in infrastructure and third-party services.
• Drive adoption ofAI-assisted development and automation where it improves speed
• and quality.
• Set standards for code quality, test coverage, documentation, Git, Docker-based
• CI/CD, and technical task and epic creation.

Security, compliance & operations

• Maintain PCI DSS compliance and SOC 2, and own audit readiness.
• Manage all servers, environments and administrators, including cloud systems (AWS,
• Google Cloud, Google Workspace, Atlassian).
• Own security infrastructure: firewalls, VPNs, vulnerability scanning, endpoint security
• and alerting.
• Ensure uptime and reliability of revenue-critical systems; lead incident response and
• post-incident fixes.
• Enforce technical and security standards across all personnel, not only engineering.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of in-depth, object-oriented PHP development on large applications, with
• hands-on expertise in Laravel or Yii/Yii2, PHP-FPM and performance optimization.
• Proven experience refactoring a large legacy monolith and leading a framework
• migration or replatforming of live, customer-facing systems at scale.
• Expert-level architecture and system design for complex, high-traffic web platforms,
• including RESTAPIs, scalability and performance.
• Experience building and running event-driven and distributed systems: queues,
• asynchronous processing, caching, retries and fault tolerance.
• Strong AWS architecture experience, including load balancing, autoscaling and high
• availability, plus Linux, Docker, Git and CI/CD.
• Experience designing test coverage and automated testing for a large codebase.
• Strong database skills, including MySQL indexing and query optimization.
• 5+ years leading and scaling engineering teams, including hiring engineering managers,
• defining performance processes, and managing contractors alongside employees.
• Clear communicator who can explain technical issues to non-technical executives,
• partners and attorneys.

Strongly preferred

• Hands-on experience with both Laravel and Yii/Yii2, including a migration from one to
• the other.
• Experience managing a large MongoDB deployment, plus Redis and
• OpenSearch/Elasticsearch.
• Working knowledge of PCI DSS and SOC 2 and the security controls behind them.

Nice to have

• Experience with Agile/Scrum and running sprint-based teams.
• Prior CTO or VP Engineering role at a growth-stage or data-driven company.
• Experience with AI-assisted development, LLMs or agentic tooling in production
• engineering.
• Background in high-volume consumer e-commerce, subscriptions, payments or public
• records/data businesses.
• Familiarity with FCRA/DPPA or other data privacy regulations.
• Experience managing distributed or offshore teams across time zones.
• Contributions to open-source libraries or PHP packages.
• Additional languages and tools: JavaScript/TypeScript, modern frontend frameworks
• (React, Vue, Remix), Python, Node.js, Azure.

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance