About the role

Reporting to the CEO, the CTO is responsible for product management, product and backend design, engineering leadership, and the day-to-day management of the development team, including the development, maintenance, hosting, and support of the Taskr platform.

Key responsibilities

Develop and maintain technical standards and guidelines for the Taskr Group Development team

Develop and maintain resource plans for the Taskr Group Development team

Maintain and support AWS infrastructure and other operational assets

Active participation in the recruitment process in the Development Team and ensure that quality candidates with the right level of skills sets are selected and hired

Day to day management of the Development Team

Lead end-to-end product management, including discovery, prioritisation, requirements definition, roadmap governance, release planning, and ongoing enhancement of the Taskr platform

Document customer, client, and business requirements and translate them into clear product specifications, user stories, acceptance criteria, and high-quality solutions

Own and document product and backend design, including data models, APIs, integrations, technical architecture, security, scalability, performance, and maintainability

Lead backend engineering delivery and develop application features to written technical specifications

Set and maintain engineering quality practices, including code review, automated testing, observability, deployment readiness, and operational support

About you

Minimum 10 years' experience developing with PHP or similar and using MVC frameworks

Minimum 5 years' experience developing with Frontend JS frameworks (React, Vue.JS) or similar

Demonstrated experience leading product management for a software or SaaS platform, from discovery and prioritisation through delivery and iteration

Strong working knowledge of product and backend solution design, including APIs, data modelling, integrations, cloud architecture, security, performance, and scalability

Strong working knowledge of backend engineering practices, including code structure, testing, observability, performance, security, and reliability

Experience working with integrating third-party platforms through APIs and other data sources

Strong working knowledge of code versioning tools such as GIT

Strong working knowledge of AWS Server infrastructure

Strong working knowledge of MySQL Relational Databases (queries, design and optimisation)

Experience with accessibility and security compliance