Position: Chief Technology Officer  (CTO)
Company: Riseapps
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

We are growing and now we are looking for a Chief Technology Officer to join our team!
To be successful in this role, you are a true leader with exceptional people management skills and a confident decision-maker. You develop your people, helping them be both productive and personally successful, while ensuring profits rise.
We are offering something more than a job. We are offering an opportunity to change the way development is delivered around the world.

Requirements and Qualifications:
- Able to multitask, prioritise, and manage time efficiently;
- Able to build strong interpersonal relationships with colleagues, brand leaders, and other senior management throughout the company;
- Able to be a “big picture” thinker;
- Excellent leadership, team building, and management skills;
- Encouraging to team and staff; able to mentor and lead;
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills;
- Confident in producing and presenting work;
- In-depth understanding of the industry;
- Master’s degree in information technology or a technology-related discipline preferred;
- Eight to ten years’ experience in a software development role, information technology role, or related field; five years in management or leadership role;
- Experience with technology relative to industry; .Net, C#, SQL Server, MongoDB, Solr, jQuery, Angular, AWS, IIS, GitHub, Grunt/Gulp, Node.JS, Java/C;
- Strict adherence to company philosophy/mission statement/sales goals;
- Excellent analytical and time-management skills.

Duties and Responsibilities:
- Setting company technical vision and leading the company’s technological development;
- Developing strategic plans and setting timelines for evaluation, development, and deployment of all technical, web, and mobile services;
- Identifying opportunities for web and mobile services;
- Collaborating with department heads, marketing, production, and operations as an advisor of all technologies involved with the company;
- Ensuring technology standards and best practices are met;
- Supervising quality assurance processes, integration, and system tests;
- Establishing software development process and set objectives for the process;
- Mentoring team members;
- Monitoring performance profiling tools and procedures;
- Maintaining network security with IT team;
- Reviewing timeframes and budgets;
- Supervising workflow of IT department;
- Defining company standards for systems, equipment, and software;
- Sharing technological visions, opportunities, and risks company-wide;
- Studying information processing systems to evaluate the effectiveness and make recommendations for improvement;
- Representing the company at conferences and networking events;
- Ensuring the company’s technological processes and service comply with all requirements, laws, and regulations.

We are offering:
- Projects that use advanced, cutting-edge technologies.The ability to switch projects, try yourself in different roles;
- Fully-equipped office space located close to Naukova metro station;
- Great team and excellent environment, that will help you to improve your soft and hard skills;
- 5-day working week, 8-hour working day, flexible schedule (You decide your work hours);
- Possibility of remote work;
- Annual Paid vacation — 15 b/days + unpaid vacation;
- Paid Sick-leaves — 5 b/days;
- Paid public holidays according to the Ukrainian legislation;
- Bookkeeping and accounting will be maintained by the professional accountant;
- Competitive bonuses for a personal recommendation of new employees;
- Personal career plan, professional growth and semiannual performance review;
- Partial compensation of conferences, courses;
- Internal TechTalks, corporate library, English lessons and Speaking club with native speaker;
- Sport and Fitness team buildings, compensation of running events and others;
- Fun summer and winter corporate parties, team buildings and other events.

Sounds like you? Contact us !