Non-Negotiables
* Leadership skills, management skills & a great team player
* Relentlessly resourceful & creative problem solving
* High risk tolerance & boundless ambition
* A collaborative approach & willingness to be wrong
* Customer centricity
* Self-driven
* Brilliant at bringing together people across functions, countries & cultures
* Passionate about users' needs
* Industry-agnostic
* Driven by consistent iteration
* Excellent at reducing uncertainty
* Start-up experience - the ability to"do more with less resources"
Chief Technical Officer Logistics (Amanzimtoti)
Responsibilities
* Enhancing the technology strategy based on the overall business strategy
* Crafting & executing a well-designed customer centric solution architecture
* Product management & implementing the product roadmap
* Occasionally diving deep into software development - strong back & front-end proficiency, as coding might be required mainly at the beginning
* Setting up & managing the technology infrastructure & DevOps
* Building, managing, mentoring & leading a high-performance tech team
* Developing standards & procedures to ensure quality practises across the platform & for incoming teams
* Conducting code reviews & ensure quality code output
* Building quality assurance & managing feedback loops
* Manage & collaborate with various internal & external stakeholders such as our customers, strategic product partnerships and sometimes our investors.
* Representing the business as an Exco member at various touchpoints
* Join the Business team in customer interaction sessions to get a keener understanding of customer's issues and requirements and drive technology development to solve for those issues
Chief Technical Officer Logistics (Amanzimtoti)Required Skills & Competencies
* At least 8 years of experience working with well-engineered software products with modern technologies
* Thorough domain expertise in various technologies
* Ability to adapt to changes quickly
* Understanding of overall business fundamentals
* Strong customer orientation
* Demonstrated track-record of delivering well-engineered products with modern technologies for a variety of different problem domains
* Experience building scalable SaaS based products across any of the top cloud platforms e.g., Azure, AWS, GCP etc
* Good working knowledge of API design (e.g., REST, OpenAPI, GraphQL)
* Understanding microservices architecture design paradigm
* Knowledge & proficiency in the following development languages: NodeJS or Python.
* Knowledge of a range of current cross-platform product development framework, such as React JS, React Native
* Good understanding of automated deployment experience using CI/CD principles & build pipelines
* Ability to create & implement a data strategy to enable analytics that enhance the business's objectives
* Knowledge of project management methodologies & strong with time management
* Strong understanding of integration & service orchestration strategies
* Experience working in a start-up
* Has experience working in an agile environment & is able to constantly test, learn & iterate based on user feedback & prioritize features
* Strong communication skills - you'll be sharing the results of analyses & discussing technical problems with the team
* Managing costs & budgets across the technology value streams * Experience leading a team with the ability to provide technical guidance, mentorship, and support, while promoting a collaborative and innovative work environment
