The Role
We are looking for a business focused, entrepreneurial Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to join Tripplos executive leadership team. In addition to shaping Tripplos technology vision, the CTO will be the bridge between business & technology. You will provide leadership direction on technology & product strategy to accomplish Tripplos short, medium & long-term goals. You will take a leading role in scaling the platform, heading up all aspects of product design, technical architecture & technical development.
Responsibilities
- Enhancing the technology strategy based on the overall business strategy
- Crafting & executing a well-designed customer centric solution architecture
- Product management & implementing the product roadmap
- Occasionally diving deep into software development strong back & front-end proficiency, as coding might be required mainly at the beginning
- Setting up & managing the technology infrastructure & DevOps
- Building, managing, mentoring & leading a high-performance tech team
- Developing standards & procedures to ensure quality practises across the platform & for incoming teams
- Conducting code reviews & ensure quality code output
- Building quality assurance & managing feedback loops
- Manage & collaborate with various internal & external stakeholders such as our customers, strategic product partnerships and sometimes our investors
- Representing the business as an Exco member at various touchpoints
- Join the Business team in customer interaction sessions to get a keener understanding of customers issues and requirements and drive technology development to solve for those issues
- At least 8 years of experience working with well-engineered software products with modern technologies
- Thorough domain expertise in various technologies
- Ability to adapt to changes quickly
- Understanding of overall business fundamentals
- Strong customer orientation
- Demonstrated track-record of delivering well-engineered products with modern technologies for a variety of different problem domains
- Experience building scalable SaaS based products across any of the top cloud platforms e.g., Azure, AWS, GCP etc
- Good working knowledge of API design (e.g., REST, OpenAPI, GraphQL)
- Understanding microservices architecture design paradigm
- Knowledge & proficiency in the following development languages: NodeJS or Python
- Knowledge of a range of current cross-platform product development framework, such as React JS, React Native
- Good understanding of automated deployment experience using CI/CD principles & build pipelines
- Ability to create & implement a data strategy to enable analytics that enhance the businesss objectives
- Knowledge of project management methodologies & strong with time management
- Strong understanding of integration & service orchestration strategies
- Experience working in a start-up
- Has experience working in an agile environment & is able to constantly test, learn & iterate based on user feedback & prioritize features
- Strong communication skills - youll be sharing the results of analyses & discussing technical problems with the team
- Managing costs & budgets across the technology value streams
- Experience leading a team with the ability to provide technical guidance, mentorship, and support, while promoting a collaborative and innovative work environment
- Leadership skills, management skills & a great team player
- Relentlessly resourceful & creative problem solving
- High risk tolerance & boundless ambition
- A collaborative approach & willingness to be wrong
- Customer centricity
- Self-driven
- Brilliant at bringing together people across functions, countries & cultures
- Passionate about users needs
- Industry-agnostic
- Driven by consistent iteration
- Excellent at reducing uncertainty
- Start-up experience the ability todo more with less resources
- You will have the opportunity to partner with the business founder & influence strategy as a technical leader of the business
- Shares in Tripplo through its employee share option program (ESOP)
- You will be working in an exciting start-up environment where you can practise & harness your creativity & innovation
- You will have an opportunity to be part of a founding team of a high-potential start-up with global ambition
- Tripplo has built very strategic partnerships & is backed by some global organisations in Africa which you will also have access to
- You will have the opportunity to partner with the business founder & influence strategy as a technical leader of the business
- Shares in Tripplo through its employee share option program (ESOP)
- You will be working in an exciting start-up environment where you can practise & harness your creativity & innovation
- You will have an opportunity to be part of a founding team of a high-potential start-up with global ambition
- Tripplo has built very strategic partnerships & is backed by some global organisations in Africa which you will also have access to
This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to lead a game-changing start-up with global growth aspirations and to help shape the future of Africa's start-up ecosystem.
