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Looking to hire a CTO for our company

Deveshe Dutt
Fri, 02 May 2014 13:55:04 GMT

At PowerToFly we’re building the first social platform for finding, vetting and connecting accomplished female tech talent from all over the world with companies that recognize how diversity and flexible work fuel innovation. We are driven by a strong social mission to change the nature of work by making it more accessible for countless women. In less than two months, we’ve already seen amazing responses and traction around our efforts. We’ve placed women from Russia, Egypt, Ukraine, South Korea and other countries with some of America’s fastest-growing startups! To learn more about what we offer to talent placed within our network, please read this post on our pre-launch site - http://bit.ly/1g56arA. We are living the model we're building for. That means we are a distributed team and you can do this job from anywhere in the world! About our future CTO: We’re a company for women that’s run by women. You would lead a passionate group of developers who are already focused on creating a platform for millions of users. To do so, you would be a self-motivated and compell ing leader who obsesses over building platforms with amazing conversion rates, stickiness and user retention. And as an ideal candidate you would oversee our product, design, devops and engineering efforts. We have a global team of women who are juggling the demands of building a company while taking care of growing families. It’s also imperative that you support our own virtual workplace and build out the tools we need to recruit, manage talent and communicate effectively. Your Responsibilities: -Recruit, inspire and lead a distributed female tech team -Lead the development of our website while doing hands-on coding at this early stage -As the team scales you would build rapid prototypes and architect, then code review implementations by your team -Lead by example with clean, maintainable code -Translate tech vision into executable plans -Report to the CEO and collaborate with the executive team on long-term product strategy Requirements: -Experience working on at least one high-traffic web site and/or a github/bitbucket account that speaks for itself -Very strong hands on full-stack skills with a focus on Python -3+ years of Python experience -Extensive experience with Javascript -Experience with both SQL and NoSQL data stores, database design and tuning -Experience with SOA -Knowledge of standard tools for optimizing and testing code -Ability to lead fast iterative development with multiple deployments per day -Experience designing, developing, and consuming RESTful APIs -Strong knowledge of object oriented programming and design patterns -Excited by the opportunity to lead and inspire a distributed global team -Excellent communication skills — with a global team it’s essential that each team member isn’t shy about communicating. As CTO you’d streamline communication and break down the barriers of physical distance in order to enable everybody to understand each other’s ideas. If you’re interested, apply http://bit.ly/1m9yGJO. Want to know more? Drop us a line at [email protected].