Position: CTO/VP of Engineering
Company: Indigo Tech Recruiters
Experience required: 5y
Category: Lead
Published: 2020-10-01T00:00:00+03:00

Our client is a **product company (visual editor launched)**. It allows creating social media images, and banners, posters, email headers, and other popular formats.

The product is easy to use — it doesn’t matter if you are an experienced designer or a beginner. We made it for marketers, social media specialists, entrepreneurs, bloggers, and anyone who needs a simple solution for their creative projects.

**As a CTO you will:**
— be actively engaged in backend / frontend architecture design & evolution
— improve and maintain CI & CD system
— Lead an infrastructure development and make it cost effective
— Directly manage SRE/Platform team to provide in place support for any team need it
— Become a temporary technical leader in fresh teams
— Establish recruiting and education policies
— Improve and evolve management automation & awareness system
— Be engaged in day to day activities — code review, documentation, metrics.
— Get your hands dirty — handson work, prototype development, bottleneck resolving
— Participate in on-call support (at least at the beginning)
— Participate in dev process (Help product owners to identify and resolve technical bottlenecks)
— Improve and maintain development culture
— be a great team player. This position requires working with others closely
— Oversee and improve the documentationTechnologies, that we use

**Platform:**
— Configuration management — ansible, terraform
— Kubernetes over AWS EC2 + kops (No EKS)
— OpenFaaS
— Helm
— CI / CD — over gitlab

**Monitoring and observability:**
— Grafana,
— Prometheus
— OpenTelemetry (application traces and metrics)
— Loki (no ELK)

**Backend stack:**
— Node.js (both with typescript and javascript)
— Golang
— Mongodb as the standard database
— RabbitMQ as message broker
— Redis as caching server and work queues

**Frontend stack:**
— React, Redux, Rx.js, Canvas, WebGL

**What we offer:**
- Competitive compensation level
- Teams with over 55 professional developers
- Paid Vacations (24 days), Statutory Holidays and Sick leaves
- Comfortable Offices in Kyiv and Cyprus or remote
- Flexible Work Schedule