Director - Technology - Startup (10-15 yrs)

Position : Director of Technology

Reports To : CEO

Experience : 10+Yrs

Preferred from Product or Start-up environment

Specific Duties/Responsibilities

- Work in an agile environment to design and implement new features based on business requirements

- Manage the software development team and deliver a high-quality product based on the business requirements.

- Help the team members in resolving difficult technical issues

- Help with debugging any infrastructure and code related issues in the production environment

- Provide estimates for development work

- Be hands on in key projects, and also do code reviews of critical features.

- Make sure development team deadlines are met in timely manner

- Effectively communicate with team members, QA team as well as product management.

Skills/Experience Requirements

- Passionate about technology and building a world-class product with high quality.

- Strong ability to come up with solutions to different technology problems.

- Must be familiar with advanced principles of object-oriented analysis, design and programming.

- Experience with or exposure to multi-tier website development in a Java/J2EE environment.

- Experience with Hibernate, Groovy and Grails a plus.

- Sound knowledge of relational databases, including schema design and advanced queries. My SQL experience is a plus.

- Excellent time management skills and ability to take responsibility for deliverable

- 3+ years of experience managing a development team.

- Ability to work in a fast-paced, start-up environment

- Excellent oral and written communication skills

- Ability to work in a team environment

- Must be hands-on with writing code and highly capable to help team with any technical problem.

Education/Other Pre-Requisites

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

- 10+ years of experience