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Chief Technical Officer (CTO)

Permanent contract
Marseille
Salary: Not specified
Starting date: September 04, 2022
Fully-remote
Experience: > 7 years

BuyCo
BuyCo

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Job description

As BuyCo’s CTO you define and own the strategy of the entire tech department and have a strong influence on the company’s strategy and decision making.

You report directly to the CEO and work hand in hand with a VP Engineering (managing and organizing the dev squads) and a Head of Infrastructure.

Our technical stack is as follows:

  • Backend: Ruby, Rails, Go, Python, PostgreSQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, S3
  • Frontend: React, Redux, CloudFront
  • Infrastructure / DevOps: AWS, Kubernetes, CircleCI, Github, Datadog, RabbitMQ
  • Data: DBT, Dremio, PowerBI, Metabase

Your responsabilities as CTO include:

  • Setting the tech vision and evangelizing it through the whole company
  • Defining and owning the tech roadmap and working with the VP engineering and Product team to deploy it efficiently
  • Being the technical referent for the tech and product teams, for client discussions, you are the final decision maker on technical topics
  • As a technical expert you may intervene as developer on some specific topics, out of the roadmap scope, when necessary or work upstream on certain complex and strategic projects before they fall back in the team’s scope
  • Your direct management is to the Head of Infra and VP Engineering
  • As part of the top management team, you interact with your peers (Product, Commercial, Finance, Operations) to solve current issues, anticipate future problems and ensure scalability
  • Lead and support the technical architecture culture, making choices on platforms and tools.
  • Inspire, mentor and help your team members to grow technically and support engineering efforts
  • Managing a technology budget and making the necessary investments to align the organization with its vision for its technological needs

Preferred experience

You’ve already hold a similar position (CTO/Architect/First dev) in a rapid growth environment and you’ve experienced the scale of a tech team and infrastructure, so you can bring this experience to BuyCo while we go through the same scaling phase.

As a technology visionary you are able to communicate widely and engage your team on this vision, so everyone is aligned, engaged, and participating in the evolution of the tech evolution.

You have a deep understanding of interconnected systems and the cost, performance, and strategic implications of making particular architecture choices.

Technically, you master our backend tech stack (Ruby, GO, Kubernetes, AWS), and if you are familiar with our frontend stack it’s only better (React.js and Typescript)

Last but not least, you are a problem solver at heart, make data driven decisions, knows how to navigated between empathy and inspiraring management, and are fluent in English!


Recruitment process

  • HR phone screen
  • CEO and CPO interviews
  • Tech interviews with dev leads and VP Engineering
  • Final interview with founders

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