Chief Technical Officer - Social Live Streaming space

Must to Have:

- Minimum experience of 8 years in Engineering Leadership roles

- Entrepreneurial approach and ability to strike balance between speed to ship and quality -

- Ability to attract technology talent at middle and junior levels from the startup ecosystem

- Passion to build a large-scale production and impact the lives of millions

- Good understanding of AI, ML technologies and their applications

- Experience of working in a startup like a fast-paced environment

- Hands-on attitude

- Experience of working on products/platforms in CONTENT OR SOCIAL OR GAMING OR COMMERCE space

- Good academic and professional pedigree

What you will be doing here:

- Develop, attract and retain a high performing and result-oriented engineering team

- Strategize, Plan and Execute the applications of AI and ML in Personalization and Recommendation along with the business team

- Represent the organization in media to share thought leadership around Engineering capabilities of the company

- Develop and manage multi-year Product roadmap and strategy in collaboration with the Product partner in a multi-function team environment

- Represent the engineering team in product requirement discussions, creation of schedules and manage the overall budget

- Provide value-added expertise in engineering design. Take final decision on conflicts around technical solutions

- Create, improve and drive operational excellence, quality, security and privacy initiatives across the entire engineering team

- Provide staffing forecasts and participate in all hiring activity

- Own the delivery of high-quality software on time, in collaboration with product management, making decisions that balance business requirements with technology constraints

- Represent engineering at the leadership level and manage realistic expectations with stakeholders

- Last but not least, be hands-on - get your hands dirty on coding as and when required for quicker shipping, or for guiding the team

Desired Skills/ Knowledge:

- You should have a minimum of 8 years of experience in a senior engineering leadership role

- Proven track record of growing up the ranks in a fast-growing technology company

- Managed an engineering and technology team of 30 or more and should have built teams across multiple roles in technology

- Experience working with a multi-functional team (Product Management, Design, Test, Operations, and Developers)

- Experience with building large-scale, high availability production mobile application infrastructure

- Strong understanding of architectural principles for a fast-paced technology product

- Entrepreneurial experience of handling scale will be preferred (ex Tech Co-Founders / CTOs / CTO-1 level)