Chief Technology Officer - Internet/Online

- Technical Breadth Exposure to a wide variety of problem spaces, technologies, and tools.

- Very Strong System design and object orientation skills with ability to craft clean interfaces and operate at the right levels of abstraction.

- Good knowledge and working experience of large variety of multi-tier architectures and awareness of architectural and design pitfalls.

- Experience & exposure to a variety of large-scale persistent systems including large databases.

- Exposure to complete product development cycle from inception to production to scaling up, supporting new requirements, re-architectures. The Architect should have seen it all.

- Should have been part of scalable product development cycles with either large data handling or large transaction processing exposure for 3+ years.

- Proven experience as a leader capable of motivating and energizing the very best software engineers, as well as gaining their respect. Be the technical mentor to the team

- Represent the technological agenda in staff meetings and when making hiring decisions

- Maintain current knowledge of technology landscape and developments

- Consolidate our technology platforms and create plans for each

- Track, analyze and monitor technology performance metrics

- Identify new areas of digital marketing opportunities and create plans to implement them for us and our clients

- Take the initiative in thought leadership, innovation and creativity

- Spearhead IT projects to increase our market reach and improve our USP

- Oversee all system design and changes in system architecture

DESIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

- 15+ years- software engineering and IT experience

- Proven track record of success in leadership positions

- Familiarity with marketing platforms, programs and policies

- Extensive experience with MVC frameworks

- Exceptional project management and organization skills

- Hands on experience with Java, J2EE, MySQL

- Person with right attitude and passion to work in Startup.