Chief Technology Officer - Loyalty Website

We are looking for a - Chief Technology Officer - for one of our esteemed Clients for Mumbai Location.

Responsibilities :

- Collaborate with the Founder to build a comprehensive vision and product roadmap.

- Build out the architecture, team, technology stack and platform.

- Set the tone, best practices, and overall strategy for technical operations - from coding, project management, architecture, and scaling - and rigidly adhere to their implementation, adjusting as needed.

- Identify and incorporate growing trends and best practices in technology.

- Evaluate and identify appropriate technology platforms.

- Lead strategic planning to achieve goals within timelines by identifying and prioritizing development initiatives and setting time frames for development and deployment.

- Recruit, hire and lead a high quality technology team, with close collaboration and communication with a top notch data science team.

- Recommend technologies that support company organizational needs internally.

- Maintain a governance process that meets government, partner, and company expectations for information privacy.

- Communicate the company's technology strategy to investors, management, staff, partners, customers, and stakeholders.

- Develop and manage a multi-year technology roadmap, ensuring the deployment of architectural solutions that are secure, scalable, comprehensive and maintainable.

- Assist the CEO with fundraising and strategy, Product & Operations Leads with feature road mapping.

REQUIREMENT :

- Must have been involved with multiple startups (some successful and others a learning experience).

- Must be a hands-on entrepreneurial CTO, who has worked at least one high profile startup.

- Strong network to recruit from within (India and/or overseas).

- Experience in leading the full cycle of web and mobile application development processes, from design to implementation.

- Experience with Python development and object-oriented design.

- Experience building web applications using MVC frameworks (Django is a plus).

- Extensive knowledge of and experience with SMS, USSD or other protocols for mobile communication standards, particularly GSM.

- B.S. or Masters in computer engineering or related discipline, from reputed university.

- Team player who is takes ownership of work, is detail and deadline oriented, with a strong work ethic.