Position: Head of Engineering/СТО
Company: Growth Shop
Category: PHP
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

The Role

We’re looking for a mastermind CTO/Head of Engineering that has a deep development background yet understands product. The role is to own our overall brand launch platform, which includes the frontend which is built on WooCommerce and also the backend where we have the capability to build whatever we need to become faster and smarter. Our DB is on RedShift and we’ve built custom ETL’s BUT we need to take things to the next level. This role will feel at home for someone who is highly creative, has strong business acumen, and knows how to speed things up, streamline processes, manage and scale a dev team and dominate the world of direct to consumer. We want someone who has a playbook, but isn’t bound by it. Past experience will get you in the door but we ideally want someone who takes the best bits of their career in various forms, and is looking to pull this all together and then break it again. 

Your KPI’s

Owning launching our brands on time and error free
Building and managing a world-class development team
Consistently demonstrate how our processes have been streamlined through technology, revised process flow and/or team structure
Constantly innovating with lean yet powerful ideas that provide competitive advantage. These could look like anything from marketing tools, revised operational flows or even a smart way to build self serve tools.
Feedback from the wider team confirming leadership capability, High EQ and the ability to inspire a team. 

Your experience:

7-10+ years in engineering with deep experience with PHP (and WordPress)
You have built, led and scaled development teams
You’re highly operational/process driven and can show examples
You self educate and invest in your own personal growth with examples. 
Your colleagues would say you are confident, express your opinions, but are completely open minded and care more about the right outcome vs just pushing your opinion. 
You get that life shouldn’t be too serious
You’ve can operate with multiple time zones
You’re not a 9-5 type. You have hobbies :) 
Failure - If you haven’t experienced this, we would wonder why?