Chief Technology Officer - eCommerce

- Ensuring that the product vision is realized through excellence in execution

- Developing technical strategy and for developing and maintaining a technical road-map that will continue to innovate from a technical standpoint.

- Work closely with founders and management team to lead engineering planning to achieve business goals by identifying and prioritizing development initiatives, timetables, implementation and deployment of product

- Maintain and build a high-performance engineering culture

- Own the development methodology. Align with the executive team to improve the development process, prioritize projects and manage multiple work streams-

- Lead a team of Software Developers, QA Engineers, establishing development practices and standards

- Build and retain world class engineers through strong recruitment, mentoring, and career management

- Grow our engineering team and maintaining right tech culture throughout.

- Be accountable for delivery of projects within schedules and timelines

- Responsible for the product engineering road map, quality assurance and stability of the products.

- Manage team budgets and reporting metrics. You love to be lean and crafty with limited resources

- Perform well in uncertainties and collaborate and work with unclear interfaces to other teams in our fast-paced environment. Adsorb uncertainty and provide certainty.

What we need:

- 12+ years of experience. Have worked in high scale products. Start-up experience strongly preferred

- Strong hold on tech, architecture, design pattern to lead long term scalable, stable and flexible tech solutions for business, marketing and product long term initiatives.

- Extensive software engineering development and design experience with complex and highly scalable products using multiple technologies and languages

- Strong program management expertise and engineering execution skillset

- Strong business and product acumen to be able to solve business and product problems enabling through tech solution.

- Experience in organisation wide initiatives and change management.

- Ability to make quick decisions in high pressure environments with limited information.