CTO Job Description
We are seeking a highly-skilled CTO with a storied history in the technological sector. CTO's will be tasked with making executive technology decisions on behalf of the company, including managing a technology budget and making investments to align the company with its vision for its technological needs. You should be a strategic thinker, an effective communicator, and an expert in technological development.
You will work directly under the Founder and will act as both a technology and business expert, making decisions that will impact the current and future operations of the company.
CTO Responsibilities:
- Setting a vision for how technology will be used in the company.
- Ensuring that technological resources meet the company's short and long-term needs.
- Outline the goals for research and development.
- Creating timelines for the development and deployment of all technological services.
- Making executive decisions on behalf of the company's technological requirements.
- Acting as a mentor to team members.
- Maintaining a consumer-focused outlook and aiding in the delivery of IT projects to market.
- Managing technology budgets and time frames.
- Staying on top of technology trends and developments.
- Ensuring all technology practices adhere to regulatory standards.
CTO Requirements:
- Masters degree in computer science or related field.
- MBA preferred.
- The applicant must possess entrepreneurial experience.
- Exposure to startup/ internet industry preferred
- 8+ years working in a technological role.
- 5 years of managerial experience.
- Advanced technological skillset and a demonstrated history with technology.
- Exceptional team management skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication.
- Ability to delegate efficiently.
- Extensive industry knowledge with an eye toward the future.

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Looking for a seasoned technology leader to head the tech division of our software services company. This is the senior-most technology role, responsible for delivery excellence, architecture, and team leadership across multiple client projects.
We are looking for an experienced Technical Lead with a strong development background and leadership skills to drive technical solutions and manage a dynamic development team. The ideal candidate must have hands-on experience in WordPress, Laravel, Shopify, Node.js, and Server management, along with excellent communication and team leadership abilities.
Key Responsibilities:
Technical Leadership & Development:
- Lead the development team, providing technical direction, guidance, and mentorship.
- Architect and implement scalable, high-performance, and secure web applications.
- Provide hands-on expertise in WordPress, Laravel, Shopify, and Node.js.
- Manage and optimize server infrastructure for smooth deployment and performance.
- Ensure best coding practices, security, and performance optimization.
- Conduct code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and improve development processes.
- Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve complex technical issues.
Team Management & Leadership:
- Build and lead a high-performing development team, fostering a collaborative work culture.
- Assign tasks, monitor progress, and ensure timely delivery of projects.
- Conduct regular team meetings, training, and performance evaluations.
- Encourage innovation, skill development, and knowledge sharing within the team.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including designers, project managers, and stakeholders.
- Act as a bridge between technical teams and business stakeholders, ensuring alignment on goals
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience.
- Proven ability to lead and manage a development team.
- Expertise in WordPress, Laravel, Shopify, and Node.js.
- Strong experience in server management (Linux, cloud hosting, deployment).
- Hands-on experience with APIs, third-party integrations, and database management.
- Ability to design and implement technical solutions aligned with business objectives.
- Strong understanding of performance optimization, security, and scalability.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Strong communication skills in English, both written and verbal.
- Proactive, self-motivated, and able to work in a fast-paced environment.
Please note that, we are looking Male candidates for this position, in an around West Bengal only.
Roles and responsibilities:
- Should be the single point of contact for all project related queries and concerns.
- Should ensure project delivery and quality at desired level.
- Adherence to the Process.
- Oversee daily activities of the team and provide direction and guidance as needed.
- Manage resources as per workload.
- Address delivery issues in a timely fashion.
- Ensure operational excellence by making team technically competent enough.
- Evaluate the performance of team members and determine training needs.
Desired candidate profile:
- Overall experience of 15 Yrs. to 20 Yrs.
- 5+ yrs. of experience on project management and project delivery.
- Should have proven experience on coding and managing teams using Java, J2ee, iOS, Android, AWS, Node JS, and Python.
- Adoption to the new technologies is desired.
- Understanding of firmware and protocols related to IOT, Bluetooth will be added advantage
- Required to be technical and hands on coding if needed.
- Candidates should be Process oriented and execute projects in Scrum/Agile methodologies.
Our young and rapidly growing team at Zycus is looking to fill out vacant positions for Technical Architects. We are a well established SAAS based company, with 20+ years of AI legacy and experience in the industry. Once you join us, you will get to innovate and experience the latest technologies including Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and AWS Cloud. We are looking for candidates well versed with Java/J2EE, Spring boot, Microservices, Hibernate, JMS/ Kafka/ Rabbit and most importantly an expert in design patterns. Exposure to Cloud platform, Full stack environment and Agile methodology, would be a plus.
We are looking for curious, collaborative candidates who are willing to learn and ready to take up new exciting endeavors. You are going to work together with the team on complex innovative projects in the industry. We are basically looking for an enthusiastic candidate with a coding experience of about 5-10 years, with a hands-on experience in Software Product Development and ownership.
You could be a perfect fit if you,
- understand use cases and product requirements, can design, develop, review (code/design), unit test, module test, integration test, documentation for PDLC.
- are an expert in maintaining, enhancing, bug fixing and following standard documentation process laid down for the project.
- follow the defined PDLC process and participate in improving the process, work with cross functional team to achieve project delivery goal.
- ensure all the work meets or exceeds predefined quality standards through exhaustive testing, peer reviews SQA process standards.
- are able to build solution which is easily scalable, high speed/ real-time performance, configurable, deploy-able and secure in SaaS environment using any open source tech stack.
- are able to identify, track and mitigate risks to the product
- are responsible for planning product iterations and releasing iterations on schedule.
Requirements
- Atleast 8-12 years’ experience in Java, J2EE and associated technologies (Spring, Hibernate, Web Services, Micro Services, Spring boot)
- Technical Skills: Core Java, Advanced Java, J2EE, Exception handling, Collections, Oops, UML, Oracle, Jenkins, Maven & Linux
- Should be able to build solutions which is easily configurable, deploy able and secure in SaaS environment.
- Must have worked spring boot Extensively.
- Strong hands on development experience in Java, J2EE.
- Product development experience in agile environment will be a big plus though not mandatory.
- Highly Tech Savvy and hands-on.
- Strong evidence of a solution/product created ground up.
Product Development:
- Has in-depth knowledge on technology and end to end development processes.
- Has the ability to recommend new processes/alternatives to meet Product development requirements and rolling them out the team.
Benefits
Five Reasons Why You Should Join Zycus
- Cloud Product Company: We are a Cloud SaaS Company and our products are created by using the latest technologies like ML and AI. Our UI is in Angular JS and we are developing our mobile apps using React.
- A Market Leader: Zycus is recognized by Gartner (world’s leading market research analyst) as a Leader in Procurement Software Suites.
- Move between Roles: We believe that change leads to growth and therefore we allow our employees to shift careers and move to different roles and functions within the organization
- Get a Global Exposure: You get to work and deal with our global customers.
- Create an Impact: Zycus gives you the environment to create an impact on the product and transform your ideas into reality. Even our junior engineers get the opportunity to work on different product features.
About Us
Zycus is a pioneer in Cognitive Procurement software and has been a trusted partner of choice for large global enterprises for two decades. Zycus has been consistently recognized by Gartner, Forrester, and other analysts for its Source to Pay integrated suite. Zycus powers its S2P software with the revolutionary Merlin AI Suite. Merlin AI takes over the tactical tasks and empowers procurement and AP officers to focus on strategic projects; offers data-driven actionable insights for quicker and smarter decisions, and its conversational AI offers a B2C type user-experience to the end-users.
Zycus helps enterprises drive real savings, reduce risks, and boost compliance, and its seamless, intuitive, and easy-to-use user interface ensures high adoption and value across the organization.
Start your #CognitiveProcurement journey with us, as you are #MeantforMore
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- Hands-on/ Implementation OR exposure to Front end tools and frameworks like
Angular.js/React.js
- Strong experience handling large data (batch and real-time), workflows and scheduling,
building pluggable frameworks and systems, strong abstraction, and design skills
- Knowledge of Linux with advanced knowledge of command-line interface
- Knowledge of AWS required for cloud set up and configuration and system security
- Advance MySQL knowledge required with hand-on experience with query building and query optimization
- Currently Hands-on with coding and development process.
- Team management is highly preferred.
- Drive strategy and vision across teams in a rapidly evolving environment
- Work closely with diverse stakeholders and enable them by providing scalable, high-quality, and secure technology solutions.
- Understand company needs to define system specifications and system architecture, and ensure the implementation of agreed architecture
- Oversee assigned tasks and provide guidance to team members and follow best practices
- Take accountability for optimizing key technology and business metrics
- Drive agility in execution, create a strong team culture of responsiveness by leading by
example
- Keep eye for technology and competitive landscape to stay ahead of the trends and
competition.
Principal Software Engineer /Architect
Axtechnosoft Private Limited
Job Description
Responsibilities: -
- You would take ownership of the existing system and scale it more than 10X over the next 2 years.
- Apply best coding standards.
- You would create the infrastructure that can serve 100s of customers and millions of data requests per hour.
- Over the next year or so, you would be able to guide a team of 5 to 15 people to accomplish your goals. Mentoring this team into a world-class engineering team would be a key part of your role.
- Your earlier experience in successfully building, deploying and running complex, large scale web or data products.
- You would work hand-in-hand with the Product Management team to build engineering capabilities that align with the evolution of the product.
- Eventually work with Data science teamwork to ensure that the algorithmic intelligence that we build is plugged into the product in an expected manner.
- Overall, you would be responsible for end-to-end architecting from Engineering standpoint.
Must have: -
- Total experience of 8+ years while relevant experience of at least 2 years.
- Have built a platform that handles at least 500k to 1 million data request an hour.
- Worked on building an infrastructure that serves 200k+ customers.
- Hands on coder.
- Expert level knowledge in at least one technology stack - Python or ideally, Java. Also Angular, React, Node.js
- Expert level knowledge with Elastic Search or NoSQL technologies like MongoDB/HBase/Cassandra/Redis/Neo4j
- Experience developing web applications.
- Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, XML, jQuery)
- Working knowledge of databases (e.g. MySQL, MongoDB), web servers (e.g. Apache) and UI/UX design.
- Devops experience working with AWS / Other cloud platforms.
- Strong knowledge of API’s.
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills
- Implementing Software Engineering best practices.
- Previously worked on user facing products with scale.
- Agile methodology.
- Great attention to detail.
- Organizational skills
- An analytical mind
Good to have: -
- Working knowledge of React Red.
- Open-source technology.
- Working knowledge of AI/ ML.
- Degree in Computer Science, Statistics or relevant field.
- Experience working in a start-up environment.
Key Skills
Python
Angular Javascript
Reactor & Solids Processing
Node.js
Elastic Search
NoSQL
Web Applications
Database
Web Servers
UX/UI Design
AWS Cloud
Agile Methodology










