Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Requirements:

• Experience in technical leadership roles (CTO, Tech Lead, Head of Engineering).
• English - Advanced or Fluent (the CTO must be able to communicate effectively with international clients).
• Strong communication & leadership skills - ability to explain complex technical solutions in simple terms.
• Deep understanding of ecommerce.
• Ability to manage multiple teams and projects simultaneously.
• Strategic thinking, analytical thinking and flexibility in solving challenges.
• Experience in building/controlling technical processes, flows, documentation
• Leadership skills - team development, interviewing, mentoring
• Ability to work in a multifunctional environment, prioritize
• Experience in implementing technical standards and audits
• Understanding of architectural patterns, CI/CD, DevOps approaches
• Experience in creating project estimates, working with bolparks, discovery
• Understanding of sales support processes (pre-sale technical support)
• Knowledge of AI technologies and experience in their integration
• Deep knowledge of web development (Magento, Shopify, Shopware)

Responsibilities:

• Define and align the technology strategy with the company’s business goals.
• Oversee architectural decisions and ensure best development practices.
• Provide technical consulting to clients 
• Participate in pre-sale/Sales meetings.
• Assess project complexity and select the best technology stack for implementation.
• Collaborate with development teams, providing mentorship and professional guidance.
• Improve internal processes and DevOps practices.
• Validation and optimization of estimates (bolparks, raffle, point estimates)
• Monitoring of trends in the e-commerce market, integration of innovations
• Development of new services, process automation
• Choosing approaches to architecture, controlling code standards
• Clarification of functionality with the client, generation of technical solutions
• Translation of client's business requests into technical language
• Technical recommendations for scaling/optimizing the client's business
• Rapid response to requests from sales teams/customers
• Long-term planning of technical development of the project
• Implementation of new technologies and AI
• Ensuring cybersecurity and website stability
• Technical documentation, project audit
• Development of the technical team: training, mentoring
• Conducting technical interviews and the technical part of the performance review
• Collaboration with PM, Sales, AM to coordinate technical/business solutions
• Technical participation in the discovery phase
• Analysis of technical risks and their minimization
• Controlling the development of extensions as integral blocks
• Implementation of standards on projects, technical documentation
• Launching/controlling code reviews, tech-sharing
• Cooperation with HR department in terms of development (grading, IDP, competency matrices)
• Systematization of internal tools (environments, flowcharts, gifs, deployment documentation)