Tech Lead/CTO is Needed

We are an ambitious, growing startup with plans to disrupt the global industry. This is no ordinary startup. We have a proven management team that has done it before, done it before together, and done it before in the media and e-commerce industry. The company is overflowing with fiercely intelligent people who have tons of energy and an upbeat view of the future. We all act like owners and we get a huge kick out doing great work and doing it fast. We like it even more when we come up with a fresh way to solve a problem. Above all, we are devoted to solving customer problems, because that’s at the center of everything we do.

ABOUT YOU

You have 8-12 years of relevant experience and/or a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. You are looking to get in on the ground floor of a well-funded startup with a proven leadership team. Prior startup experience is a huge plus!

You are a Node.JS enthusiast, eager to build commercial applications with ES6.

You have years of experience with Angular, React, and/or Vue and have a strong opinion on state in the frontend.

You have a strong understanding of Microservices and how they are modeled; you have practical experience with technologies like Messaging Buses (eg Kafka, NATS), Protocol Buffers, and Clustering.

You get easily excited about Continuous Delivery. You know your testing tools and are comfortable with platforms like Docker, CircleCI, and Artifactory.

You know the modern technical stack from the network up and are incredibly grateful that you can programmatically control all of it thanks to AWS or Azure or Google.

You have a deep respect for the challenges associated with operating a large-scale system in production, and your designs and implementations reflect that understanding.

You’ve built highly scalable products that involve some, or all, of the following components: fault-tolerance, high availability, e-commerce and distributed microservices.

You enjoy creating unconventional solutions to the most challenging requirements.

You keep up with the latest industry trends and aren’t afraid to write code to learn new tech.

You understand that great Engineering teams are built upon relationships, just as much as they are built on awesome code.