CTO

London Permanent £140,000 - £170,000 per year
  • Newly created opportunity with a well backed start-up
  • Leadership role, with the opportunity to build a strong team

About Our Client

The company is a start-up within the data sector. The business will work with organisations looking to automate data gathering and provide real time data insights. It is backed by a very well known Consulting firm.

Job Description

The successful candidate will:

· Lead the engineering work, building an innovative solution for complex customers, at scale

· Translate product objectives into engineering strategy, infrastructure, and tasks to deliver desired customer experience

Responsibilities will include:

Leading back-end and front-end development efforts, including input into hiring, training, and managing engineering resources

Have ultimate responsibility for quality of engineering efforts, including reviewing pull requests, finding and raising bugs, and specifying engineering approaches

Have detailed understanding of full product codebase

Propose high-level architecture for the product, and work with engineers to implement the architecture

Identify talent needs to achieve product roadmap, and source / interview candidates to make hiring recommendations

Develop proof of concept code that can be used to guide engineers

Collaborate with sales and operations team to support customers

Create minimal-viable-product for the venture team to validate concepts - identifying appropriate technology stack to solve business problems and developing a SaaS product using full stack development tools, including database, backend, and frontend engineering

Collaborate with product team on feature roadmap

Assess and qualify vendors (contractors, tools, data) / keep abreast of new technologies to ensure venture maintains state-of-art architecture / Codify learning's and best practices

The Successful Applicant

Bachelor's, Master's Degree or PhD with significant relevant experience in providing advanced analytics solutions.

Excellent software engineering talent, ideally with software development in a consumer or SaaS product

Startup experience ideally taking a startup from pre-seed to Series B+

Demonstrated deep technical and data science expertise, acute strategic and analytical skills, ability to lead and persuade, drive and energy, and desire to work in a project-based environment on strategic issues.

Fluency in Python or JavaScript or Node.JS or Java

What's on Offer

Please note that we need applicants to be based in the UK or have full working rights and be able to relocate quickly.

The salary will be in the range of £140-170,000 plus equity to be granted after approx 6 months. Salary offered will depend on experience relating to the preferred candidate specification.

This can be a hybrid working role, based anywhere across the UK with meetings held weekly in London. There will be some international travel.

Contact
Donna Croucher
Quote job ref
JN-042023-6004886

Job summary

Function
CIO & IT Leadership
Subsector
CIO & IT Leadership Subsector
Industry
Technology Media & Telecoms
Location
London
Contract type
Permanent
Consultant name
Donna Croucher
Job reference
JN-042023-6004886

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