Chief Technology Officer

Hey there! This is Sam, the leader of a phenomenal digital team. We help eCommerce and digital companies find and hire remote superstars. We also champion innovation, creativity, systems and operational excellence. And we’re always looking for elite people like you to join our remote EU team. #LI-Remote

👨‍💻 We love…

- Helping eCommerce & digital companies find and hire remote superstars who scale businesses to the next level.

- Enabling innovation, creativity, systems and operational excellence, alongside having a strong emphasis on personal and professional development.

- Finding and welcoming the right people

❤️ Our Values

- We're Anti-BS. We tell our CEO when he is wrong.

- Action and Responsibility. Everyone gets support to do their best work and takes charge to achieve objectives.

- Efficiency. 80% of our time is focused on the top 20% of tasks that maximize our goals and skills.

- Have Empathy. This is a safe space for everyone to be their real selves.

- Extreme Ownership. Say “I don’t know.” Don’t say “I can’t learn how to do this”.

- Constantly Improve. We read every single day. Everything that’s not growing is dying.

- Life Balance. Our full-time employees are expected to work 40-45h per week. Activity doesn’t equal productivity.

💻 What We Want You To Do

You will be joining an organization at an exciting time of accelerated growth where you will be pivotal in developing their technical leadership environments in all aspects of business.

Operating at executive level, the role is to develop a great in-house software, communicate with the employees, build systems and strategies and ensure all the necessary technologies are used appropriately.

The goal is to provide a framework for the development of a software product (a data-driven modular dashboard) that will result in certain departments making high-quality decisions based on real-time data.

As we expand, another major responsibility will be working closely with HR in hiring a diverse range of A-player developers and other IT-related personnel.

Requirements

🎯 Job ScoreCard

Your performance will be measured against these Objective Key Results (OKRs):

- Takeover and manage ongoing projects to ensure timely completion.

- Close communication and collaboration with other departments: Marketing, Media Buying, Executive Board

- You will be responsible for systemising all repeatable tasks in clear SOPs

- Responsible for discovering and implementing new technologies that yield competitive advantage

- Build quality assurance and data protection processes

- Develop functional and non-functional requirements for our new software product

- Use tools and methodologies to create representations for functions and user interface of desired product

- Define all aspects of development from appropriate technology workflow to coding

- Oversee progress of development team to ensure consistency with initial design

- Ensure software meets all requirements of quality, security, modifiability etc.

- Approve final product before launch

- Create the system infrastructure

- You will be responsible for working with HR to add more people to your team

🤝 You’re Perfect If You Have/Are…

- Proven experience as a CTO or similar leadership role

- Has experience in using Agile/ Scrum methodology

- Knowledge of technological trends

- Experience in software development and coding in various languages (Javascript, Angular, React and Node)

- Experience working with API integrations and flows.

- Excellent knowledge of data visualization tools (D3.js, Recharts, Google Charts etc.)

- Ability to conduct technological analyses and research

- Excellent knowledge of software and application design and architecture

- Great verbal and written English

- Great organization skills

- Excellent leadership skills

- Excellent digital and computers skills

- Digitally savvy (able to learn new apps and use them effectively) and have a good understanding of technical aspects

- Team player, able to take on feedback and implement it quickly to achieve greater results

- A desire for ongoing training to strengthen and learn new skills

- Good at following set structures to create SOPs for all repeatable tasks

- A natural attraction for professional and personal self development

- Proficiency with other e-Commerce apps (Skype, Hubstaff, Clickup, Shopify, etc.)

- Strong familiarity with Google Drive suite of products (Sheets, Slides, Docs etc)

⏰ Working Hours

9am - 6pm (Remote) with 1h lunch break

Working/Company Time Zone: UTC +2 (summer time)

📝 Our Interview Process

1. Click Apply

2. Pre-screening interview questionnaire with text

3. Behavioural assessment (only 10 min!).

4. 1-on-1 video interview

5. You might be asked to complete a short test task

🚨 Disclaimer

Let’s be honest. You’re more than interested in this job if you’ve made it this far. So, one last thing you should know before you apply. What we’re actually looking for is just great skilled people who know how to be human when working in a team.

So if you’re a genuinely great person, considerate towards others, flexible, ready to grow and if your skills are a match, we’d love to get to know you better. Apply right now!

PS: We’re a specialized recruitment company for digital marketing and e-commerce businesses. Once you go through the process, even if it doesn’t work out this time, we have many other similar roles coming up. We keep in touch with all great candidates.

Benefits

- Join a highly motivated A-player team

- Book Club. The first hour of every working day is dedicated to listening to an audiobook. We meet every 2 weeks to share captivating insights and celebrate learning!

- WTO - Weekend Time Outs! We meet every 2 weeks to debate and talk about different topics and subjects to further foster an engaging environment and a strong community.

- Fully remote position. Work from the comfort of your home, the coziness of a coffee shop or anywhere in-between. #LI-Remote

- We listen. You will have autonomy and freedom to share ideas, improve processes and propose changes.

- Flexible working schedule

- Extra holidays