Chief Technology Officer - Career Counselling Platform

Chief Technology Officer

Our client is one of the most advanced career counselling platforms that gives an unbiased view and effective solutions to students. They have a reach of over 6500 schools across India and Middle East. It works with various state governments and international agencies to cover as many career options as possible.

The founder is a Finance Post Graduate who quit his glittering Investment Banking career to embark on this journey of helping out our future generation in selecting the right career option based on various aspects. They have already connected to a million students and plan to reach 10 million by 2022.

As a Chief Technology Officer, you will be responsible for leading the engineering and product vertical.

What you will do :

- Setting a vision for how technology will be used in the company

- Ensuring that technological resources meet the company's short and long-term needs

- Outlining the goals for research and development

- Creating timelines for the development and deployment of all technological services

- Making executive decisions on behalf of the company's technological requirements

- Setting up of CI/CD pipelines to automate deployments at various stages, dev to staging to production at scale

- Setting up of APMs and integration with Slack to monitor the distributed system's health in real-time

- Acting as a mentor to team members

- Maintaining a consumer-focused outlook

- Managing technology budgets and time frames

- Staying on top of technology trends and developments

Candidate Profile :

What you need to have :

- 8-12 years of overall experience

- 5+ years of experience in managing a self-organizing, high growth team

- 3+ years of experience as a developer

- Hands-on experience with MERN Stack

- Hands-on with Vue.js, AWS, and AWS Lambda implementation, Serverless Architecture, Microservices Architecture, MongoDB, MySQL, PHP (Laravel)

- Knowledge of scaling high traffic apps using Heroku/EBS etc.

- DevOps knowledge

- Working knowledge of Data Warehousing and CDP platforms