Chief Technology Officer

Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Location: Cape Town HQ (in-office) Reports to: CEO / Executive Team About the Role We’re at a pivotal moment. After years of strong growth, our business is ready to scale into its next chapter. We’re seeking a visionary Chief Technology Officer to assess our legacy systems, lead the transition to a modern, AI-first architecture , and build the tools, structures, and teams that power innovation. This is a strategic, hands‑on leadership role for someone who thrives at the intersection of technology and business. You’ll shape the tech vision, drive speed, resilience, and growth, and play a key role across the entire organisation. This isn’t just about keeping systems running—it’s about reimagining what comes next. We have a strong development team and a uniquely South African platform, but the market is evolving rapidly. To stay ahead, we need a CTO who can drive transformation, innovation, and scale. Preferably from within the E‑Commerce environment, but not essential; it’s a massive nice to have. Key Responsibilities Define and own the long‑term technical strategy and system architecture. Rebuild or replatform legacy systems into scalable, modular, API‑first architectures. Lead front‑end, back‑end, and data platform direction using modern stacks and tools. Collaborate with directors and potentially serve as a technology advisor at board level. Mentor the Head of Development, establish development processes, engineering culture, and performance expectations. Drive innovation across AI personalisation, big data platforms, and customer experience. Make build vs buy vs partner decisions with commercial ROI in mind. Who You Are A strategic thinker with deep technical expertise and commercial acumen. Comfortable operating across board‑level strategy and hands‑on technical leadership. Driven by innovation, optimisation, and measurable business impact. Adept at building and mentoring high‑performing, multidisciplinary teams. Excited by scale, complexity, and transformation in a fast‑moving e‑commerce environment. You think like a founder, code like a craftsman, and build like a systems engineer. You thrive under pressure, can switch from whiteboarding a 5‑year roadmap to debugging production issues, and love driving innovation, speed, and reliability through technology. What Success Looks Like Secure, scalable systems with 99.95% uptime. Rapid feature delivery and innovation. Real‑time insights across business units. Alignment between tech roadmap and business strategy. High‑performance engineering culture focused on speed, learning, and excellence. Key Skills & Experience Architectural knowledge across modern cloud platforms, microservices, containerisation, and event‑driven systems. Deep understanding of large‑scale e‑commerce platforms (multi‑tenant, multi‑country, high concurrency). Proven ability to lead cross‑functional initiatives with product, marketing, finance, and operations. Hands‑on coding ability in modern frameworks. Business‑minded: cost‑to‑scale, margin impact, data ROI. Inspirational leader, respected by senior developers and teams. Requirements BSc/MSc in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field. 10+ years of technical experience, 5+ at senior leadership level. Proven track record scaling high‑traffic e‑commerce or tech platforms. South African market knowledge preferred but not essential. Core Competencies Technical: Front‑End: React, ReactNative Back‑End: PHP, Laravel, NextJS, NodeJS Infrastructure: AWS, GCP, Azure Architecture: MySQL, Redis, CloudFlare DevOps: Azure DevOps, BitBucket, GitHub, CI/CD pipelines Data & Reporting: BigQuery, Snowflake, MySQL BI tools: PowerBI, Tableau Analytics: GA4, Firebase Leadership & Strategy: Leading engineering, DevOps, and data teams Aligning technology to commercial OKRs Board-level communication and planning Platform innovation and AI integration Benefits Get the chance to be part of a dynamic fast growing company where no two days are the same—literally. My Client is South Africa’s original daily deals site. Started with a small handful of employees and no offices to three offices and over 300 employees. You now get to make real impact in where the business is going and determine their strategic direction allowing them to scale up, expand and grow even further. You get to be part of a team where your idea is potentially our next best‑selling deal. Also, the staff discounts are great. Salary R - R GROSS Per Month, no benefits. #J-18808-Ljbffr