CTO

Recently launched LA-based multi-media digital company has an opportunity for an experienced, senior full-stack technical engineer/architect with management experience to advance their career as corporate CTO leading growing, rapidly evolving social enterprise. Hands-on experience with investors and substantial equity participation/upside.

**CTO Responsibilities** • Leading, developing and managing IT Roadmap and Strategic Plan for full product lifecycle with Developers (PHP), UIUX Designers/Developers and QA Analysts including all new product releases and platform maintenance and iterations • Managing and executing best software engineering practices including coding, server technologies, site reliability and performance engineering, analytics engineering, research, security, client and server playlists/metafiles, customer media player creative, adaptive streaming technologies, SCM tools including source control, issue tracking and automated build system • Streamlining all B2C web & mobile client applications into a unified, mobile-first content management system hosting an increasingly broad spectrum of UGC, news and video content • Staying informed of the latest-and-greatest new 3rd party software products to identify vendors and external technologies including CDNs, marketing/advertising, content syndication to better serve target markets

**Technical Leadership Experience - Required** • Demonstrated 3+ years senior management managing and building strategic enterprise-class technical roadmaps including planning and implementing successful corporate growth strategies while achieving corporate mission and product delivery objectives • 5+ years proficiency in all phases of software engineering including requirements analysis, application design, code development and testing while managing time-sensitive and long-term projects • 7+ years coding in PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS • 5+ years MySQUL designing schemas & writing optimized queries • 3+ years platform infrastructure and data pipeline management using AWS including EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, CloudFront & ElasticCache • Deep web application knowledge and experience creating/executing metrics for standards-compliant, cross-browser, mobile-compatible front and back-end responsive code and performance optimization • Proficient understanding for protocols associated with security, privacy, risk management, quality and compliance aspects of software architecture • Created content management/data warehousing abilities and data analytics systems • Familiarity building/working with AI machine learning technologies & 3rd party software for user data acquisition highly desirable • Experienced with project workflow tools (BitBucket, JIRA) • Mentoring and teaching team members tech architectural and UIUX best practices from design thru development/implementation and QA • Bachelor’s Degree in IT, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related • Master’s Degree in IT, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related highly desirable **Competencies** • Superior leadership skills – ability to work collaboratively, inspiring and empowering others while bringing out the best in your team cultivating culture of excellence; ability to lead others through adversity without losing sight of goal management • Excellent written and verbal presentation skills in business environment including experienced in information acquisition (analytics and research) and all forms of technical communication presented to engineers as well as non-tech stakeholders • Ambitious, creative and self-motivated – efficient time manager and multi-tasker who works well in team environment or on own • Exceptional interpersonal and leadership skills with proven results as a business leader • Ability to work flexible hours to accomplish objectives including limited weekends • Online portfolio or examples of work demonstrating relevant experience