Please note : this position can be occupied in Berlin, Munich, Zurich, or completely remote in Switzerland or Germany.
Part-time scope: at least 80%
You want to play a key role in shaping our platform, our tech strategy, and internal processes to drive the growth of RaiseNow, an innovative Tech4Good company.
Join us as our CTO and drive the direction and success of RaiseNow using your knowledge and understanding of architecture, compliance, scalability, and infrastructure. You are responsible for developing a sustainable and scalable software as a service (SaaS) product for organizations and charitable giving in Europe.
Our tech department currently consists of 5 cross-functional teams and 25 Engineers in over 7 countries. In our remote-first setup, we cherish our strong team spirit and believe work can be both meaningful and fun.
Your mission
* Shape our tech strategy: You further develop, implement, and live RaiseNow's tech strategy and bring it to the tech teams.
* Prepare our platform for scaling and growth: You balance tech debt and agile product development to continuously improve our platform.
* Be responsible for the software architecture of RaiseNow: You oversee the technical development and make decisions to ensure we efficiently develop products according to our vision and reduce inefficiencies and technical debt constantly.
* Manage performance of our platform and technical risks, establishing missing processes or improving existing ones.
* Be a great communicator: You work closely with our Head of Product, CEO, COO, and other internal departments, and represent RaiseNow externally to partners and stakeholders at events.
* Live and shape our tech culture: You advocate for knowledge sharing, ownership, and high-quality standards, inspiring our engineers to continuously improve our product.
Your profile
* You are experienced as a CTO or in a similar position, demonstrating strong leadership skills and involvement in strategic decisions.
* You have in-depth knowledge of the European payment domain.
* You keep up with the latest technological trends to build RaiseNow's Tech strategy.
* You have accompanied a company through rapid growth and understand the decisions needed to scale a platform.
* You have experience in a B2B SaaS company balancing tech debt and agile product development.
* You have a strong understanding of budgets and business planning to optimize our infrastructure for performance and costs.
* You have experience in a regulated environment and with certifications such as PCI DSS, GDPR, or ISO/SOC.
* You can conduct technological analyses and research to continuously advance our architecture.
* Strong command of English (C1/C2).
* Experience with PHP 7.4, Symfony 4.4 (upgrading soon).
* Experience with Ruby 3.0.4, Ruby on Rails 6.1 (moving to 7 in Q4 2024).
* Familiarity with Behat, PHPUnit, PHPSpec for different use cases in the services.
* Experience with Docker containers on AWS ECS Fargate.
* Knowledge of selected AWS services (Lambda, S3, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB, RDS).
* CI/CD through Bitbucket pipelines.
* Familiarity with ElastiCache, Route53, CloudFront.
Why RaiseNow
We value diversity and therefore welcome all applications regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social background, religion/belief, disability, and age.
* A future-oriented job in a meaningful environment with an international team.
* Enjoy flexibility around your working time and place: We offer flexible work schedules with annual working time and temporary working abroad options, all in a remote-first setup.
* 5 weeks paid annual leave plus additional PTO days per year, with your birthday as PTO.
* We know that time is precious: We're part of the pledge 1% initiative, offer sabbatical options, and yearly educational leave for everyone.
* Your health is important: our partner Instahelp gives you free access to psychological counseling when you're not feeling well.
* The perks of joining a scaleup: short decision paths, transparent communication, and regular team events, including one workation per year to meet all colleagues in one spot.
* An innovative working environment with a culture of transparency, trust, and mutual respect.
* Project autonomy and space for personal development from the beginning.
Key Skills
Disaster Recovery, ICT, Data Management, Instrument Maintenance, Light Bus and Heavy Bus, AC Maintenance.
Employment Type: Full Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1
Chief Technology Officer • Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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