Position: CTO
Company: Djeda
Category: Other
Experience required: 5y
English level: fluent

Responsibilities

Understand the current product vision as laid-out by the Executive Team, utilize team and knowledge to generate the tech that best serves the company's immediate needs as well as 2-5 yr goals

Lead the strategy for technology platforms, partnerships and external relationships

Responsible for setting the culture and cadence of the engineering team, fostering a strong culture, increasing product velocity, and achieving schedule predictability as the company moves forward with our aggressive growth targets

Manage and optimize infrastructure assets to satisfy internal financial targets

Create overall technology standards and practices and ensure adherence

Keep abreast of new Blockchain and DeFi trends and best practices in the technology landscape

Take the initiative in thought leadership, innovation and creativity

Hire, develop and mentor technical talent to meet company objectives

Partner with founders on business and product evolution from ideation, design, architecting systems, and process.

Requirements

9+ years of progressive engineering experience; 4+ years managing technical teams.

Comfortable with CI/CD, APIs, ETLs, python, node.js, SQL, and React. AWS and GCP familiarity.

Proven impact at an established company and demonstrated ability to establish best practices for an effective engineering culture. Successfully can self manage, develop, and mentor up to 15+ engineers.

Experience developing, managing and growing a geographically dispersed engineering team

2+ years of successfully building blockchain projects within the EVM ecosystem, strong preference for financially oriented projects.

Experience building financial oriented blockchain projects, preferably with Solidity

Experience working in fintech, retail or institutional

Biases for planning, ensuring outcomes are clear, and documentation is the status quo. Proactively seeks to solve misalignment through communication, setting up minimal process guard rails and continually refining our systems of organization.

Can construct and deliver a clear and compelling narrative to any level of audience (founders, investors, customers and employees)

Technical ability to run code reviews, execute and manage agile process, hire all levels of developers, and construct an engineering organization to scale effectively

This role is a blend of providing technical leadership and personally contributing hands-on coding / engineering (35% coding, 30% tech architecture and strategy, 35% eng team and process management.)

Perks & Benefits

Competitive salary

Significant equity