Chief Technical Officer - Online/Internet

- Build an engineering team that can build our platform and expand our product and technology portfolio

- Work closely with the CEO to determine the direction of software development, solutions and product offerings

- Create engineering functions like Data Sciences, QA, Dev ops, Infrastructure team, UX etc.

- Increase scalability and innovation by embracing new technologies, trends. Set examples, remove blockers, support team from above

- Provide guidance, mentoring, and a path for growth within the engineering team

- Build platform not only software

- Develop a vision for future of our platform

- Responsible for the design, development and architecture of all major software solutions, including the establishment of company-wide software development best practices

Qualifications:

Tech-Knowledge:

- Strong Engineering Background specially previous hands-on development experience

- Experience in aggregating data- structured and unstructured, developing or working with analytics products or use-cases.

- Cloud Services (ideally worked with Amazon AWS, Azure ), private cloud

- Good understanding of software architecture and Data center infrastructure

- Good understanding of Platform development and building Self-service

- Ideally App Development Experience with SDKs

- Data science or social analytics experience is a plus but not mandatory.

- Mobile experiences: building App, Mobile Web, web view.

- Leadership

- Strong track record of successful delivery as an individual contributor and leader

- Managed teams 10+ up to 50+

- Knows how to group engineering teams around product or functions (UI/API/Data/Architect)

- Coached team leaders and engineers to improve

- Agile and Scrum Management (Smaato has an in-house Agile Coach)

- Worked with outsourced development to increase speed

- Personal skills:

- Communications: Excellent English language communication skills

- Teamwork - Balances team and individual responsibilities; Contributes to building a positive team spirit; Able to build morale and group commitments to goals and objectives; Supports everyone's efforts to succeed.

- Visionary Leadership - Displays passion and optimism; Inspires respect and trust; Provides vision and inspiration to peers and subordinates.

- Operational leadership - Exhibits confidence in self and others; Inspires and motivates others to perform well; Gives appropriate recognition to others.

- Managing People - Includes staff in planning, decision-making, facilitating and process improvement; Takes responsibility for subordinates' activities; Makes self available to staff; Provides regular performance feedback; Develops subordinates' skills and encourages growth; Fosters quality focus in others; Improves processes, products and services.

- Professionalism - Approaches others in a tactful manner; Reacts well under pressure; Treats others with respect and consideration regardless of their status or position; Accepts responsibility for own actions; Follows through on commitments.

- Education and/or experience: Master's degree (M.Tech) or equivalent; or 10-15 years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Additional Information

What we are looking for:

- Start up mentality: Get more done with less, flexible, opportunistic

- Risk taking abilities: Bet on company potential and equity valuation