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The mission of the Chief Technology Officer is to establish and lead Elite Inc.’s software engineering team to develop world class SaaS products at high velocity, sustainability and quality for its People Solutions offering.
Roles & Responsibilities
Are you a highly experienced Software Engineering leader? Do you aspire to make a difference to the world of entrepreneurs and small business owners, whilst also doing meaningful work, that gives you freedom and purpose? Then, we want you!
Elite Inc. is growing exponentially and has achieved Trailblazing status in the Digital Marketing and e-Learning Products space.
We aim to repeat this success with an exciting suite of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) products that complement our other offerings.
We are looking for an A Player who has demonstrated experience in architecting, developing and scaling commercially successful SaaS products.
You are highly skilled at sniffing out and developing other A players to join your growing tribe of software engineers and tech product mavericks who thrive on the coding culture that you will embed across your engineering organisation.
You are creative, yet analytical, with a high level of attention to detail that will equip you to deliver a working MVP within 4 months of building your core team, followed by a commercial version 8 months later.
You have an uncanny knack for understanding consumer needs and matching these to technology trends that will give Elite Inc.’s SaaS products a competitive advantage in the market.
And you’ll be able to do all of this while effectively managing the product infrastructure, security and quality for hyper scale and sustainability.
You’ll have a distinct advantage if you have successfully led a start-up in the technology space.
Minimum Requirements
Education:
Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent (Computer Science, Software Engineering, Engineering)
Systems / Software
Agile development management
Feature engineering, software lifecycle management and deployment
Data warehouse, data stores, aggregations, data architecture, data integrations, data governance, data security
Query building, Data quality, SQL, metadata, data wrangling
Scalable API infrastructure and APIs
User experiences, user access, security, interface and information architecture
Public cloud platforms, for example Azure, AWS, Cloud Foundry
Databases - SQL and NoSQL, Big Data
Multiple coding languages (at least 3 languages, for example, Java, C++,C#, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, ABAP)
Full Stack in at least one major development framework
Multiple mobile software development frameworks
Experience
Minimum requirements:
At least 15 years in the software development industry
10+ years in software products (R&D), with 5+ years in senior leadership positions
Proven track record of engineering SaaS products that have been commercially successful in the market
Experienced at ramping up teams quickly and leading global full stack engineering and product teams at scale
Experience as a Solutions / Integration /Infrastructure Architect
The following would be advantageous:
Mobile software product experience
Experience leading at a startup
Language(s)
Business English
Closing Date
15 September 2019
Once you have submitted your application, you will receive an email confirming we have received your information.
Should you meet the requirements of our initial screening, you will be requested to complete assessments. If you are serious about this position, please submit the assessments within 3 days of receipt of the mail - we fast track these applications (hint, hint)
We pride ourselves in placing the right candidate in the right position, with that in mind, we have a rigorous recruitment process that validates and checks all information submitted by you. Please ensure that all information is correct and valid on submission, we will be checking!!