CTO

Role & Responsibilities

• Partner with CEO to define, prioritize and realize product roadmap
• Rapidly iterate and test first version prototypes
• Discover and implement new technologies that yield competitive advantage
• Make architecture decisions to ensure a strong, stable, and scalable product
• Drive performance, efficiency and effectiveness of engineering and product development team
• Building out our tech stack and engineering hiring plan
• Hire and manage in-house engineering team, contracted development partners, and head the integrations of partner API's to our platform
• Work with engineering team to increase their expertise and understanding of best development practices

Requirements

• Prior CTO / Head of Engineering / technical visionary experience for a startup, preferably with a track record of one or more successful exits
• Experience working in an early-stage successful tech start-up
• An effective leader and team-player who knows how to hire and manage the right talent to scale the Engineering team
• A strong product sense and can build engaging tech for customers
• Data-driven to evaluate product-market fit and other aspects of product performance, able to identify insights that will influence future decisions
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to share/collaborate with peers
• Have a proven understanding of best engineering practices for the full software development life cycle (SDLC), including coding standards, code review, source control, build, test, deploy, and operations
• Ability to conduct technological analyses and research