Position: CTO (Startup/EdTech)
Company: Waylight
Category: Lead
Experience required: 5y
English level: fluent
Published: 2021-09-01T00:00:00+03:00

We are looking for an experienced CTO to join our team as a third partner. We are ready to offer equal equity stake (same as the two founders) to a candidate interested in becoming the driving force of Waylight. 

You must have an interest, or ideally, experience in startup environments / constant evolution, change and hypothesis testing. You will have an opportunity to lead and affect our technical and business decisions with your input, every opinion matters in Waylight.

Main tasks & responsibilities (including, but not limited to):
- Driving the company with goals and milestones
- Leading the development effort
- Establishing processes
- R&D
- Product design and development
- Metrics
- Backend engineering
- Frontend engineering
- Infrastructure engineering
- Quality assurance
- External systems analysis
- Documentation

We are running Kotlin microservices in EKS (almost everything is in AWS), with frontend written in React (and next.js).

Most of the team is based in Kyiv, the company is based in San Francisco.

PS:
We are very open to discussion regarding technological stack, different backgrounds / levels of experience and/or approach to work. If in doubt, send us a message and we will be happy to talk :)