Our client is a B2B2C tech firm backed by India’s largest retailer and tech venture capitalist founded by founders - IITB Graduates who are experienced in retail, ecommerce and fintech
It aims to become one app to manage all your brands loyalty points, cashback and coupons. It will have additional content and discovery layer for customers and brands for further engagement and commerce.
The company currently powers closed-loop loyalty programs for all different brands under its parent retail group. Currently, it has 20Mn+ registered customers and 3Mn MAU across 8 brands. Its vision is to be at the center of D2C Brands and the consumer consumption ecosystem
Role description:
We are looking for a competent CTO (Chief Technology Officer) who will be our first technology go-to expert and play an integral role in setting the company’s strategic direction, development, and future growth. In this position, you will oversee our overall technology development and technology utilization plan to manage all information technology resources of our company.
Key Responsibilities
● CTO will be leading, building, and operating exciting products with a passionate team.
● We are looking for someone who has developed and deployed software with a strong focus on end-user experience. We are seeking someone with a proven track record of shipping web scalable products.
● The ideal candidate will have a track record of building and delivering cloud solutions with delightful consumer experiences, combined with ease of implementation/reliability.
● Experience with massively scalable distributed compute product architectures.
● Experience with micro services-oriented architectures, Experience with scaling Big Data infrastructure.
● Experience delivering platform technology and creating an ecosystem of applications and services across multiple verticals and solution offerings
● Experience successfully scaling technology infrastructure to support rapid customer /data
growth.
● Experience with fast-paced, rapidly-iterating, design-forward, product-focused companies.
● "Roll-up-your-sleeves" entrepreneurial, start-up attitude, team player with record of leading and mentoring employees
Why is this a great opportunity for the right candidate
● Experienced founding team
● Backed by India’s biggest retailer which gives an edge over working with different D2C and traditional brands ecosystem which is necessary to win in this market
● The existing app customer base of 20Mn registered and 4Mn MAU + which gives us ahead
start and starting customer base
● Right to win - The founding team knows the business & its secrets inside out. We are
starting with a significant head start and a precise plan of action
● Barriers to entry - This is a specialized play with natural barriers to entry, allowing for
significant value creation for all equity holders
● Exposure to all aspects of company building - exposure to investors, fund-raising, decision
making, building the team & culture
● All of the above perks of joining a high potential company very early, along with a
competitive market salary.
Founders Profile
One of the co-founders is a graduate of IIT Bombay. In his last few roles, he was a product and business head at leading fintech startups ZestMoney, MoneyTap - Freo and Paytm- He thinks about Product, Business Models and Company Building, here
Another co-founder is a graduate of Bombay He spent his first 5 years at EverStone, across Singapore & India to manage 10-15 PE businesses. He has done various large scale growth initiatives in the retail business. He thinks about Product, Data and Tech here.
Let’s Chat!
We are now building our leadership team and would love to chat with you This is a great time to join the rocketship and participate in the upside -
● You will have super interesting & challenging problems to solve
● In a super fast-paced environment that will challenge you
● With enough resources to play offense
● You will be building industry-first product
● You will be the core founding team member
Candidate Experience: Desired skills
● He/she should have prior work experience of 6-12 years on large-scale SaaS/Mobile app products and can rapidly familiarize yourself with complex products
● Strong track record of being able to develop and set release plans, track deadlines, deliverables, resource allocations, issues/risks and create mitigation strategies as needed to deliver a quality product on time
● Strong technical and architecture skills in wide areas of platform engineering with proven ability to dive deep in any area as needed.
● Extensive experience with eCommerce platforms, cloud systems, payment solutions, digital marketing technology, automation, and multi-device development is required; AWS experience is a strong plus
● Experience managing small teams and remote teams is a strong plus
● Competent in driving a culture of continuous learning to improve technology and remove roadblocks that hold the team back.
Attractive fixed salary + ESOPs
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