CTO at Refunite

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

You will be a C-­level member of REFUNITE’s executive team and will be responsible for recruiting, onboarding, and managing a team of top quality engineers and maintaining the highest quality of software engineering practices. Reporting to REFUNITE’s COO, you will work closely with REFUNITE’s other executives to take end­user facing products and innovations from pilot to scale while relentlessly automating operational processes and managing business technology systems to drive efficiency and performance. 

You will provide guidance, oversight and mentorship to our engineering and product managers to ensure that our products and processes are extensible and efficiently scalable on our platform while maintaining stability and security.

Coming into a small organization with a current team of 8 developers, as CTO you will also be acting as Head of Engineering. Your role will include the following aspects: 

• Leading technology decisions and architectural design
• Assessing technological/technical risk and opportunity
• Leading Innovation/creating IP
• Leading the engineering team and development process
• Planning, Executing, Reviewing and Assuring the quality of REFUNITE’s Product Roadmap (Lean/Agile way)
• Spearheading an agile and lean engineering culture with an eye toward customer happiness
• Building a great engineering team
• As an external facing Technologist, evangelizing technology at conferences and with universities
• Working with the other executives to define the roadmap, marketing and other strategic aspects of REFUNITE. 

Success for this role will be measured by

• Growing a highly performing and highly collaborative development team.
• Driving rapid feature iteration within products utilizing A/B tests and usage data.
• Full automation of core operational processes and workflows.
• Ensuring a continuous flow of communication and collaboration between engineering teams and the rest of the organization.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

A successful candidate will have the following characteristics: 

Capabilities and Knowledge

• Track record : You have a proven track record of transforming capable engineers into high-­performing, coordinated, and agile software development teams that build products and automate processes for scale in fast-­growing tech organizations.
• Technology knowledge : You intricately understand the full stack of the technology you’re working with and are on top of the newest and greatest tools that can save time and money.
• Strong engineering discipline: You’re able to apply practical knowledge to build better software and improve velocity, and shouldn’t rely on anyone else for technical expertise.

Personal Traits

• Great people manager : You’re a true multiplier that brings out the best in people and helps them grow and develop.
• Amazing communication skills: You’re able to evangelize technology strategy and progress up, down, and sideways to non-­technical people. You can clearly explain what the technology can and cannot do or support and are able to present other executives with different options in order to create a solid and transparent basis for informed decisions.
• Strategic thinking : You’re focused on the big picture and can strategically guide the overall direction of the engineering team. 

Culture Fit

• Passionate about impact technology : You want to apply your skills and knowledge to create a significant social impact within the space of a one of the most over­looked problems in the world

• Multiplier leader : You’re a consistent A-­player who constantly seeks to learn and improve ­ both on a personal level and with regard to your team members

• Go­-getter : You’re a driven winner who will do what it takes to achieve results with your team.