Luxepolis - Chief Technology Officer

As Chief Technology Officer, you will be responsible for defining and executing on the technology vision for one of India's fastest growing luxury e-commerce companies. You will be responsible for building a strong technology team that is super committed and work inline with growing business objectives. You will be part of the company's core leadership team and perform a very important role in the success of the company.

As the CTO, you are responsible for :

Technology Operations :

- Sustaining and enhancing the existing Magento platform to offer more features and scale

- Managing mobile app development and a responsive design compliant version of the site

- Driving definition and frequent delivery for various platform releases by working closely with the engineering and cross-functional teams such as business and marketing teams

- 3rd party outsourcing decisions- when, what and who to outsource and what to do internally

- Scaling the existing platform to support millions of user traffic and thousands of transactions per day whilst delivering a sub-second response time

- Integration and maintenance of various 3rd party systems like payment gateways, virtual makeover, ERP/WMS, supplier systems integration (when required) etc.

- Adept in quality sourcing, hiring and managing a world-class software development team; building and leading the engineering teams throughout the development life cycle and be responsible for feature delivery on-time and within budget

- Building a culture of strong commitment, innovation within the technology team

- Providing a better user experience. Drive and have a passion for user engagement, conduct research required for new products and ongoing engineering improvements, define customer delighting factors that will make the platform or features a unique, indispensable solution for our customers

- Defining the requirements on both Internet and Mobile platforms- hands-on

- Last but not the least- Responsible for STRICT change/version management and project management

Strategy and Planning :

- Planning for growth risks - define a long-term road map to transition technology from Magento platform to an alternative platform (build vs. buy) to meet the scalability and availability requirements

- Constantly investigate emerging technologies & techniques, research ongoing industry trends, make appropriate recommendations to the management for enhancements

- Work closely with CEO, business and marketing team teams to ensure business and customer satisfaction goals are met

- Participate in board-level discussions, meetings with investors and strategic partners

Position Requirements :

- Overall a min. experience of 10 years in technology development and at least 5+ years in a technology leadership role in a consumer internet company is a big plus

- Agile development practices. Prior SCRUM Master experience is strongly desired

- Prior hands-on experience in building and scaling a Magento based eCommerce platform is desired but not mandatory

Strong development experience on the following technologies is required:

- LAMP stack - strong PHP experience is desired

- Modular HTML, CSS, Java Script, jQuery and other query languages

- Experience in object oriented design experience and design patterns

- Strong MySQL knowledge is required

- Knowledge of NGNIX/Apache server internals and configuration is required

- Implementation knowledge of platform scalability tools/systems- Varnish or any caching service/product, Memcache, AWS & S3, CDN and other Load balancers is required

- Prior experience in data backups and catastrophic failure management is essential

- Ability to quickly learn new technologies and deliver in highly demanding situations, collaborating with business teams in a constructive fashion are some of the critical success factors for this role