Chief Technology Officer - Gaming Startup

Architectural :

- Design and implement a software architecture

- Select a technology stack

- Design and configure infrastructure

- Select a development toolkit (IDE, etc.)

- Design and implement a database design

- Improve and optimise the application architecture

- Ensure scalability of the application

- Ensure scalability of the infrastructure

- Explore new technologies and decide whether to implement them

Strategy, Planning, and Design :

- Take end-to-end ownership of the product, identify technology requirements, define the future product vision, create preliminary design concepts for add-on modules and shape overall technology and product roadmap by collaborating with the founders, business development, and marketing team.

- Ensure user oriented design is the primary approach to product development across multiple screens, based on user behaviour data and direct customer feedback.

Implementation and Deployment :

- Manage Product Release, QA cycles, feature implementation and on time delivery through in-house team and vendors.

- Collaborate with team and customers to define use cases.

- Creation of wireframes/prototypes, site maps and user-flows for web and mobile platforms.

Operational Management :

- Support marketing by implementing technical requirements for SEO/product analytics.

- Establish and supervise a quality assurance process, including integration & system testing.

- Rigorously monitor key performance metrics and coordinate with various teams to take corrective actions if needed.

- Establish and forecast ROI of features and succinctly articulate competitive advantage.

- Set-up data collection and analysis system in collaboration with CEO to track key performance metrics.

Skill Sets :

- PHP/Python

- AWS & Cloud-computing

- Mysql/MongoDB/CouchDB

- Memcache/Redis

- Frontend technologies HTML, CSS, JS, Angular, ReactJS

- Frameworks like CodeIgnitor/CakePHP/Symphony, Flask/Django

- DevOps

- ELK

- Tools like Datadog, NewRelic, etc

- Shell-scripting

- Setting & managing dev/beta/prod environments

- tools like Jenkins, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, etc.

- Experience with MEAN stack will be an advantage

- Knowledge of Solr/Elastic search will be an advantage

- AWS Services (s3, ecs, waf, cloudfront, etc)

- Microservice Architecture

- Scalability with cost effectiveness

- NodeJS, Python

- NOSQL databases (Dynamodb, Mongodb)

- SQL databases (MySQL)

- Native client side applications (Android, swift, Angular)

- Strong fundamentals in computer science/engineering and algorithm design.

- Practical knowledge of computer software algorithms in machine/deep learning, NLP, Computer Vision etc.

Personal Requirements :

- Min of 7+ years of Hands on experience in Web app development, payment gateways implementation, architecture design, product management, databases and UI/UX in consumer facing applications.

- Experience on projects involving engineering and algorithmic functions, machine learning, deep learning and artificial intelligence is very advantageous.

- Creative self-starter who is comfortable with both taking initiative and working in teams.

- Strong communication skills.

- Willingness to learn and utilise emerging technologies.

- Sincere passion to use disruptive technologies that can be globally significant