CTO/Technology Head

Designation: Chief Architect

Responsibilities

• Build high quality systems and applications that solve key challenges for the customer
• Collaborate with product management and engineering teams to elicit and understand their requirements, challenges and develop potential solutions
• Proactively identify areas of improvements, come up with innovative solutions, and drive adoption
• Push boundaries on infrastructure and cost optimisation, reusability, simplicity and scalability • Own significant engineering projects end-to-end
• Sign-off on all significant architectures and technical designs regardless of front-end or back-end.
• Translate business requirements to tangible engineering deliverables
• Setup and streamline processes and introduce best practices to improve the overall efficiency and throughput of the engineering team
• Be an effective mentor and help in building capacity in the larger team, strategize and work towards helping junior engineers grow
• Stay current with latest tools, technologies, methodologies and ideas; spread the knowledge and conduct effective POCs to demonstrate applicability and benefits

Requirements

• 15+ years of strong experience in developing highly scalable backend and middle tier enterprise applications.
• Strong experience with large volume batch and real-time data processing applications
• Experience building enterprise SaaS applications. Strong knowledge of AWS.
• Programming Languages: Java (must have), Python (good to have)
• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent from premier institutes
• Strong in problem solving, data structures and algorithm design.
• Clear Object Oriented Design and Design Pattern concepts
• Significant experience working with non-functional requirements such as performance, security, compliance, automation etc.
• Experience developing AI-based solutions is a big plus.
• Comfortable working in a fast paced startup environment.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Attention to detail

·         Oversee the workflow and the workforce involved in the entire software development process ·         Responsibilities include creating strategies for optimal performance, coordinating with different teams and departments to identify strengths and weaknesses, implementing training and workshop programs, and liaising with external agencies, including key clients

1. Key Accountabilities

Application Development ·         Pioneer and drive Agile development practices, leading sprint teams and backlogs ·         Provide guidance to the team and ensure they adhere to development standards ·         Ensure team structure is optimized, and resources managed, to facilitate efficient project delivery - seamlessly integrate, mentor, and manage internal (remote) and external teams (contractors), continually monitoring quality and effectiveness ·         Innovation and product development – generate and facilitate ideas development, requirement gathering and user evaluation to continually develop new and exciting features and value add services ·         Balance competing priorities – have a good understanding of software technical debt and ensure we've got the right balance between paying it down, delivering new projects and offering outstanding customer support ·         Create and/or refine lean processes to ensure effective, scalable, and profitable workflows – identify and analyze problems and implement solutions. Ensure consistent and iterative delivery of high-impact, high-quality work ·         Ensure that the business objectives and customer requirements are at the heart of all processes and projects ·         Take part in deep-dive troubleshooting exercises - drive technical post-mortem discussions to identify the root cause of complex issues and implement appropriate solutions Designers & Developers ·         Manage a team that designs, develops, troubleshoots, and debugs software and is the go-to team for all aspects of maintenance starting with resolving software bugs, managing delivery of software and working on customer escalations ·         Work with product managers, designers & developers to translate internal and external customer and market requirements into a system, product, and technology roadmaps Vendor Sourcing & Management ·         Manage relationships with various technology vendors and contract agreements to ensure technically and economically efficient products and services are provided Application Management ·         Ensure new application upgrades or transformation are compliant with current applications, commercials involved in their upkeep and overlook the future need of applications and their upgrades from software development perspective ·         Ensure availability of in-house applications to business/ functional users as per requirement ·         Ensure that in-house application related incidents, events, problems, and service requests get closed in an efficient, consistent manner per the committed SLAs

1. Skills Required for the role

Strong leadership capabilities	Excellent client/customer service mindset
Excellent written, interpersonal, and verbal communication skills	Project Management and Delivery skills
IT Product development knowledge	Analytical and inquisitive, with excellent attention to detail
Strong stakeholders’ management skills	Ability to multi-task and stay organized in a dynamic work environment

Technical Architect/CTO

• Experience in defining new architectures, design all layers of the solution, create architectural blueprints that can be used for final code development.
• Interface with client business/technical teams to understand complex requirements.
• Anticipate on technological evolutions(example use MySQL Lite not MS SQL, use C# not ASP, don't use JSF use Angular).
• Resolve technical issues.
• Bridge between Developers, Project Managers/Leads, and Client, ensuring smooth communication channel.
• Ensure quality of project implementation deployed.
• Provide technical guidance to projects/programs for complex components of a multiple technology suites.
• Ensuring documentation of the complete project architecture.
• Lead actions to determine root cause of problems and drive resolution.
• Participate in cross-functional work groups to assess business needs, develop a systems architecture strategy, and implementation plans.
• Leads work groups that are responsible for software development.
• Ensure that all components of the technical architecture are properly integrated and implemented by the development team.
• Coach the technical team in the development of the technical architecture and help them solve challenging technical problems
• Provide technical support and technical quality control throughout all stages of the project.
• Spearheads the development, implementation and communications of architecture roadmap strategies to ensure that systems are scalable, reliable, secure, supportable, and achieve.
• Identify existing architecture weaknesses and find opportunities for process reengineering and perform cost benefit analysis

 

 

• Time Management- Organizes own workload to achieve maximum productivity and completes work in a timely and professional manner. Handles multiple short and long term modules by proper planning while anticipating potential problems and planning for contingencies.
• Identify high-potential team members for next level positions and creating learning and development plans for them.
• Enable strong process in place and reducing dependencies on individual.

 

Technical Skills and Qualification

• Excellent knowledge of Web technologies, Java, Javascript, Contact center environment.
• Experience of current technologies including Open Source, J2EE (JSP, Servlet, JSP, etc.), web application development, web services (REST/SOAP/XML), Rich Internet Applications, messaging infrastructures and databases.
• Adaptability and willingness to learn new tools and applications.
• Should be comfortable for 40%-60% coding.
• Able to convert requirements into executable code
• 9 to 12 yrs experience
• Qualification: BE/B-Tech /MCA or any equivalent degree

 

Desirables

• Excellent written and verbal communication skill
• Ability to lead discussions with all levels of the organization and provide balanced information of an idea or communication of an issue regardless of written or verbal
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively across project teams.
• Having Analytical and problem-solving
• Ability to translate complex requirements into functional and Technical architecture
• Experience managing the technology aspect of multiple complex projects
• Ability to think ahead and anticipate problems, issues and solutions and Assist team members in complex task
• Willing to take ownership and being accountable.
• Openness, communicates honestly, openly, and consistently.
• Positive Attitude encourages a positive rather than negative viewpoint.
• Integrity maintains the highest standard of personal conduct in performing all duties.
• Should be a good listener.
• Dependable, can be relied upon to get the job done.
• Able to avoid mistakes that could/should be anticipated.
• Should be able sense and grab the opportunities to innovate and improvise.
• Very high competence in presentation skills.
• Negotiator: Excellent negotiation skills which comes handy in hard selling new ideas/ new technical implementations etc.
• Risk Management: Should be able to take calculated risks in trying out new technical implementation avenues
• Able to communicate the org level vision to the team effectively

Hello,

We are SOCIAL.HR

          An early-stage HR-Tech (SaaS) company. We aspire to be the leading self-driven career platform with intelligence. We are putting together a strong founding team of Chief Technical Officer. The founders have about a decade of experience in Sales, Marketing, HR & mobile application development.

Who is?

A Co-Creator/Co-Founder/Chief Technology Officer will be our first technology go-to expert who can own product development, technology for the scratch and scale it along the journey. You are a tech hack who can [Alt+f9] layers of complex computing problems. You have built amazing products and enterprise systems in the past and looking for the next big challenge? 

Do you have it?

1. 6-12 years of experience in building a product from the ground up to scale
2. You are hands-on with codes, active portfolio, and contribution
3. You have built enterprise-level products
4. You have explored and played around building great team culture
5. You have the ability to attract and retain talent

We Look for?

1. In it for a long term
2. Thinking outside the box
3. Not afraid to challenge the conventional wisdom
4. Moving decisively towards business goals
5. Flexible managing work-life balance

Are you the right fit?

1. If you are a get my hands dirty kind of leader with deep experience in building and scaling large enterprise-grade product
2. The latest tech stacks are just walk in the park
3. You have Identified, compared, selected, and implemented technology solutions to meet current and future needs
4. You have built end to the end cloud platform on AWS and are aware of best practices followed
5. You are a flawless executor with an entrepreneurial spirit
6. You have a keen eye for maintaining exceptional coding practices
7. You have assembled and lead a team of highly motivated engineers
8. Prior experience in data science and deep learning is a plus but not mandatory

We offer

Chief technology officer is a complex role that lies at the intersection of business and technology with true upside potential. Initially, the compensation will primarily be in the form of equity with increasing salary as we hit our business milestones and bring in institutional funding.

Look forward to talk. 

Adarsh.HM
Co-Founder

What’s it like in Equal Experts: Currently, we are working to create a platform on mobile for a giant enterprise to help them roll out their new offering. The company is now amongst the world’s biggest startups and fastest growing IT companies that are creating groundbreaking innovations. This platform will help them build capabilities to scale up to 1 million installations a week. In addition, it will let them on-board and empower over a million people in the workforce. The platform will then scale to create disruptions in the retail and e-commerce space, solving real-world problems. Scalability, extensibility, and reusability are key attributes of this platform. As a Platform Architect, you'll be involved in: Defining the technology strategy for the platform, including ensuring operability, performance, and security. Providing technical leadership and consulting on all aspects of the program. Coordinating and facilitating technical decisions across the multiple deliver streams on the platform. Providing technical and delivery mentoring to client technology department.

Company Description :

Traveloka is a technology company based in Jakarta, Indonesia. Founded in 2012 by ex-Silicon Valley engineers and aims to revolutionize human mobility with technology. Today Traveloka is expanding its reach by operating in 6 countries and experimenting with new endeavors that will create large impact in the markets and industries we touch.

Job Description :

- Be a steward for engineering quality, reliability, scalability habits and mindset in the organization under your purview

- Responsible for scalability, performance, availability of products and services across the stack in the organization under your purview

- Driving high standard code reviews, design reviews, architecture discussions

- Mentoring more junior engineers to instill engineering best practices and good habits

- Actively participate in development along with team members - creating modules & systems that can then be treated as a working reflection of the best practices.

- Set the vision of the domain architecture and technology stack for technology in your organization

- Drive implementation of long term investment, migration, refactoring in your organization

- Be an evangelist for technology - drive a culture of curiosity and active debate around technology in your organization

- Experiment with new & relevant technologies and tools, and drive adoption while measuring yourself on the impact you are able to create

Qualifications :

- 8+ years of relevant industry experience ideally in fast moving B2C environment

- Technical breadth - exposure to a wide variety of problem spaces, technologies

- Very strong system design and object-oriented skills with a nifty ability to craft clean interfaces and operate at the right levels of abstraction

- Solid coding skills with ability to drive teams through massive refactoring exercise & improve coding standards across large code bases.

- Deep knowledge, understanding & experience of working with a large variety of multi-tier architectures. Awareness of pitfalls & use cases for a large variety of solutions.

- Deep understanding & experience of high performance web scale & real-time response systems, and large scale persistent systems

- Exposure to complete product development cycles - from inception to production to scaling up, supporting new requirements, re-architectures

- Demonstrated expertise in problem solving and technical innovation

Key Skills Expected • Will be expected to architect, develop and maintain large-scale distributed systems • Should have excellent coding skills and good understanding of MVC frameworks • Strong understanding & experience in building efficient search & recommendation algorithms; experience in Machine/ Deep Learning would be beneficial • Experience in Python-Django would be a plus • Strong knowledge of hosting webservices like AWS, Google Cloud Platform, etc is critical. • Sound understanding of Front-end web technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, AngularJS etc We are looking for self-starters who are looking to solve hard problems.

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ToRoots is an early stage angel funded startup. We are a team of people who believe in experiential learning. If you are looking for something where you can implement your learning and learn while experimenting, ToRoots is a place to be. You will be among the people who will set a company culture, and we intend to (and will) be listed among the best places to work in the world. We are a young company looking to change how people book travel experiences. We have outsourced technology part to a tech partner company and now we are looking for somebody who can lead the technology part completely with them. In travel industry, technology has been used for almost a decade now, but unlike hotels/buses/flights booking travelers don't yet book travel experiences without manual intervention. While playing in a niche of unique travel experiences, we intend to make it convenient for travelers to book them without manual intervention. We started as a marketplace and our evolution path would be a community-driven platform and an intelligent platform eventually. We are looking for somebody who has deep understanding of open source development and have a knack for solving problems pertaining to human behaviour with technology. Somebody who can understand the evolution path and make it happen.