Position: Chief Technology Officer
Company: Cola
Category: Lead
Experience required: 3y
English level: intermediate

**Responsibilities:**
- Make architecture decisions to ensure a strong, stable, and scalable products
- Rapidly iterate and test first version prototypes
- Building and hiring our tech team 
- Work with the engineering team to increase their expertise and understanding of best development practices
- Partner with C-level to define, prioritize and realize product roadmap
- Driving performance, efficiency and effectiveness of the engineering and product 
- Partner with C-level to define product vision and strategy
- Leading all aspects of the development lifecycle, including requirements analysis, strategic planning, design/architecture, execution, deployment, and maintenance
- Building quality assurance and data protection processes, ensuring all technology practices adhere to regulatory standards
- Ensuring technologies are used efficiently, profitably, and securely
- Developing a strategy and framework for allocating resources effectively in line with the vision, in a way that motivates and inspires team members
- Setting goals that help meet the organization’s needs, set a high standard for success, and draw on the strength of team managers
- Building a technology leadership team that can expertly manage their own teams, develop a strong and focused culture, and be responsive to the organization’s needs

**We offer:**
- Comfortable office in Dubai, official contract
- 20 working days (4 calendar weeks) of paid vacation
- Non-bureaucracy culture: questions are resolved quickly, opportunities to influence the processes, new ideas and proposals are always welcomed
- Corporate events and team buildings where we celebrate our team and company’s victories and achievements
- Relocation package: visa, medical insurance, accommodation

**Requirements:**
- Experience working in an early-stage successful tech start-up will be a plus
- Significant experience in PHP (our stack: PHP, MySQL, Laravel, Redis, RabbitMQ, React)
- A strong product sense and can build engaging tech for customers
- Ability to conduct technological analyses and research
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to share/collaborate with peers
- Significant experience in software architecture and personally building digital products from early-stage through to scaling and maturity
- You’ve managed, mentored, and inspired a small team of engineers providing architectural guidance, code reviews, etc.
- Deep knowledge of full-stack modern development practices (ex: DevOps, APIs)
- Experience in project management to ensure timely deliverables
- Prior CTO / Head of Engineering, preferably with a track record of one or more successful exits
- Data-driven to evaluate product-market fit and other aspects of product performance, able to identify insights that will influence future decisions