CTO
Chief Technology Officer
TIPTI – Tiempo Para Ti (Spanish translation for “Time for You”) is a Groceries & Home Essentials eCommerce with Home Delivery. The TIPTI business is based in our Customers Experience, accomplished by our Specialized Shopper Team, that will fulfill our costumers home needs.
This position sits within one of the fastest growing startups in Ecuador, with over 300 employees and about to launch operations in two other countries. Due to expansion, we are looking for an experienced Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to ensure the technology strategy is aligned with business needs, driving the day-to-day development process.
As a CTO, you will be a key decision-maker who chooses the tech stack, programming language, and framework, you will be able to provide leadership for the technical strategy in order to accomplish the goals of an organization.
As the Chief Technical Officer, you will be able to roll up your sleeves to get started and will have the resources to build a team, internally and externally, to help you execute on the strategy you develop.
You will work directly with our Co-Founder/CEO and taking full ownership to research and create strategies, improve an IT infrastructure and finetune an engineering team effort to align with business priorities.
What you need:
- BS in Management information systems, Global information technology management, Strategic management of technology and innovation, and similar.
- +10 years of experience in the IT field. He/she needs to know the ins and outs of the software development life cycle and are experienced to incorporate strategies to accelerate time-to-market.
- Large ability to communicate the technology strategy to the engineering team, investors, and key stakeholders is important for this role.
- Proven experience as project manager– overseeing the flow of work, design stable processes using best practices and methodologies.
- Proven experience in optimizing operations by enabling agility, security, and reliance within ecosystems. The operating model developed by CTO is needed to bridge business and technology strategy.
- Extensive Sense of entrepreneurship, delivering a competitive advantage by choosing the right technology that will engage customers.
- Excellent teamwork abilities and leadership.
- Prioritization and sense of urgency abilities.
Cultural Fit
- Analytics Skills
- Proactivity
- Target – Based results
- Quick Learning
- Teamwork
- Enthusiasm
- Attention to details
- Communication Skills
- Creativity & innovation
- Efficiency
- Organization & Planification
- High Standars
What will you do:
- Shaping technology vision, develop a technical strategy for the company, align with the business vision.
- Building an MVP, that can be to gain real-time user feedback as fast as possible.
- Drive Quality Assurance system.
- Attracting and mentoring talented developers
- Basing on technical and commercial properties, the CTO will suggest likely technical platforms to use on the project. The solution requires such considerations as the number of developers available, the cost of developers, the cost of the framework, deployment time, security, community support, and fitting for business vision.
- Build an updating architecture process
- The CTO will manage domains and SSL certificates, sets up servers, databases, third-party tools, and ensures company-wide security.
- CTO will foster corporate culture by inspiring an engineering team to grow and develop. They should be actively involved in feedback and retention of team members.
- As an avid learner, a CTO continually will research trends in the IT industry, including innovative technologies and advises on the impacts of this technology in the long run.
