Co-founder at Almatutor
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Almatutor - Chief Technology Officer - IIT/NIT/BITS (3-6 yrs)
We at Alma tutor (an early stage Ed-Tech startup) are aiming to strengthen the "shadow education system (private tutoring)" spanning across K-12 and higher competitive examinations. With a K-12 base of approximately 350 million students growing at a rate of 13% CAGR out of which roughly 27% opt for tutoring services, herein lies a huge potential of exploiting a roughly 15 billion dollar market which remains under serviced, as only 5-10% of the business volume is being catered to by the online mode of private tutoring and the rest remains largely unorganized, thus presenting a unique set of problems to be addressed technologically.
Our core team consists of graduates from IIT 's and we are looking for someone who can be a part of our core team and single handedly drive the technology vertical for our venture. This is a co founder role, which is only meant for candidates who are looking to fight entrepreneurial battles, possess a go getter attitude and someone who has an entrepreneurial bug in his head.
Roles and Responsibility:
- Lead the entire back-end and front-end technology team for Factors and act as the go-to resource with in-depth knowledge of technology and product best practices and standards.
- Build scalable backend product architecture that scales through millions of pageviews and users
- Acting as a single person of contact for the entire technology vertical and liaising with the business team to aid the business needs.
- Adept at translating complex wireframes to elegant UX both on web and mobile apps
- Directly Responsible for the user experience on the platform. Willingness to learn new technologies as required and able to incorporate machine-learning, AI and Big data as the product evolves.
- The CTO is responsible for validating the technical feasibility of product ideas, and suggesting likely technical platforms and build-buy options for such ideas.
Skills Required:
- Candidate with minimum 3 -6 years of solid tech experience, preferably from IIT/NIT/BITS or any other college of national repute.
- Candidates having experience in GSOC (Google Summer Of Code) or any other relevant experience in big shot tech based companies like Flipkart, Ola, Amazon etc will have higher preference.
- Proven Experience in leading the full cycle of web and mobile (Android/IOS) application development processes, from design to implementation.
- Well-versed with Java (J2EE) / Python (Django), MongoDB, MySQL, PHP, HTML,CSS, JS stack for backend development
- Proven ability to build a solid team and thrive in dynamic environment. Any previous start up experience is a huge plus, a strong call to all the EX-CTO's from startups (although not necessary)
- Native android development with OpenGL experience and ability to code animations a plus
- Experience with performance testing and optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability
- Great analytical skills, data driven decision making and evolution with technology trends
- Strong hold in backend development and algorithms
- Experience with debugging tools like selenium, xdebug
- Strong hold in Object Oriented Programming and Design Patterns
- Exposure to data science, machine-learning and big data a plus
- The right candidate should be commercially knowledgeable (business acumen) and pragmatic, and have understanding of a wide range of technologies and methodologies, and should have the ability to choose which fits best. Ability to build a technology team from scratch at a startup is a plus.
What We offer:
- This is a cash rich role with ESOPs and equity on the table.
- An opportunity to build a product from scratch to directly compete with market stalwarts.
- The idea of building your own team and creating a world class tech product.
- Co founder Status in spite of the risk being hedged in the form of a highly competitive salary and stock options)
- A roller coster entrepreneurial journey with learnings of a lifetime!!
Fixed Salary offered: 10-18 lpa + ESOP/Equity.
Interested candidates may apply. Will be happy to hear from you :)
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