Chief Technology Officer

About the role

Reporting to the CEO, the CTO is responsible for product management, product and backend design, engineering leadership, and the day-to-day management of the development team, including the development, maintenance, hosting, and support of the Taskr platform.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and maintain technical standards and guidelines for the Taskr Group Development team

• Develop and maintain resource plans for the Taskr Group Development team

• Maintain and support AWS infrastructure and other operational assets

• Active participation in the recruitment process in the Development Team and ensure that quality candidates with the right level of skills sets are selected and hired

• Day to day management of the Development Team

• Lead end-to-end product management, including discovery, prioritisation, requirements definition, roadmap governance, release planning, and ongoing enhancement of the Taskr platform

• Document customer, client, and business requirements and translate them into clear product specifications, user stories, acceptance criteria, and high-quality solutions

• Own and document product and backend design, including data models, APIs, integrations, technical architecture, security, scalability, performance, and maintainability

• Lead backend engineering delivery and develop application features to written technical specifications

• Set and maintain engineering quality practices, including code review, automated testing, observability, deployment readiness, and operational support

About you

• Minimum 10 years' experience developing with PHP or similar and using MVC frameworks

• Minimum 5 years' experience developing with Frontend JS frameworks (React, Vue.JS) or similar

• Demonstrated experience leading product management for a software or SaaS platform, from discovery and prioritisation through delivery and iteration

• Strong working knowledge of product and backend solution design, including APIs, data modelling, integrations, cloud architecture, security, performance, and scalability

• Strong working knowledge of backend engineering practices, including code structure, testing, observability, performance, security, and reliability

• Experience working with integrating third-party platforms through APIs and other data sources

• Strong working knowledge of code versioning tools such as GIT

• Strong working knowledge of AWS Server infrastructure

• Strong working knowledge of MySQL Relational Databases (queries, design and optimisation)

• Experience with accessibility and security compliance