STAAH - Chief Technology Officer

To bring our vision to life, we are seeking a Chief Technology Officer. This position is a central leadership role that is responsible to deliver the overall product vision as well as engineering the software that powers our products. This role includes end-to-end management of the global product roadmap and engineering organization, focusing on both our current suite of data-driven products for the accommodation industry, performance software, hospitality experiences, as well as new experiences for distribution in the accommodation industry.

The CTO will manage a development team of roughly 60 staff that include product managers, designers, developers, architects, potentially data scientists, and QA/ Testers.

The ideal candidate will be a true technologist, experienced with both legacy and next generation frameworks. He or she will also have demonstrable experience accelerating talent. Experience with data and SaaS business models is a must; accommodation and distribution knowledge or direct industry experience is a plus.

The position reports to the Founder and or The Board of Directors.

The ideal candidate should have the following:

- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent

- Proficient on cloud platform architecture and design including SaaS, PaaS and IaaS

- Experience developing and implementing best practices for IT Service Delivery

- Understanding of various programming languages (PHP/Perl/Java/MySQL/) and scripting related to automation, orchestration, Infrastructure as a Service, etc.

- 15+ years of progressively responsible management experience with day-to-day operations within software, technology, or technology consulting and services organizations.

- 15+ years of practical, hands-on, and deep, diverse experiences running up and down the technology spectrum from languages PHP, Perl, Java, MySQL and scripting related to automation, orchestration, Infrastructure as a Service, web based applications, up to the latest trends in technology including microservices, machine learning, artificial intelligence, big data, open source technologies covering cloud technologies (datacenters, IaaS, PaaS, cloud transformations, vendors, and appropriate use cases)

- Demonstrated experience porting multiple large-scale application, data and/or software products from concept to release

- Proven experience developing & managing products

- Demonstrated ability to lead a large enterprise software company through a complex technology modernization project

- Successful experience leading the development of enterprise application frameworks

- Proven, enterprise-scale Executive with experience migrating products from one application to another

- Expertise in Agile development, test automation, continuous integration, and SaaS performance and scalability