Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

About Boxhub

Boxhub is an online platform that makes it possible to buy shipping containers for any purpose without the hassle of calling shipping lines, depots and trucking companies.

Position

• Own, define, and articulate a strategic technical vision for our organisation
• Overall responsibility for technology and end-product
• Develop plans and set timelines for evaluation, development, and deployment of all tech
• Hire and build our technical team, and create environment of responsibility and trust
• Be a leader and give engineers context and confidence to make correct technical decisions, while establishing culture of excellence
• Hands on software development until team and scale are in place
• Responsible for platform infrastructure, including performance and uptime
• Develop and embed excellent communication practices with technical team and across organisation to ensure high degree of alignment as we scale
• Share, participate in, and own the evolution of our values
• Embed clear framework for productivity and velocity in order to ensure we’re scaling effectively
• Write product and technical specifications, layout priorities
• Implement technology standards and best practices
• Provide market insights to ensure strategy stays current and contributes to our competitive advantage

Your qualification

• Minimum 5 years as hands-on developer/architect
• Minimum 2-5 years leading technical teams
• Degree in computer science, mathematics, engineering OR equivalent experience
• Having set up and scaled high-performance technology teams in fast growing organisations
• Solid technical background and ability to code with quality
• Increasing levels of leadership responsibility throughout career
• Strategic thinker, effective communicator, and expert in technology development
• Proven well rounded and multi-dimensional team leader
• Demonstrated delivery capability with deep understanding of business mechanics
• Experience with several different technologies and systems
• Strong track record of scaling technical infrastructure and architecture of complex platforms
• Motivation to join a startup and love for building a business from scratch, with ability to see how a product and strategy can evolve

What we offer

• Fantastic opportunity to help build and grow with a company at an early stage
• Work on something meaningful, with the ability to revolutionise an entire industry
• Flexible working hours and working from home half of the time
• Be a decision maker, with huge responsibility and freedom to operate
• Make a difference by contributing to impactful causes, like conserving the environment by reducing CO2 emissions or advancing affordable housing
• Join a multicultural team that has built successful startups around the world
• Flat hierarchy that is based on open feedback, trust, collaboration, and constructive criticism
• We offer visa and relocation support