Chief Technology Officer

3 weeks ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Founders Factory Full time

Tripplo (Pty) Ltd is a pan-African focused, Johannesburg based, logistics technology business. Our vision is to create the new standard for African road freight logistics. We are building our own logistics platform that facilitates the safe & efficient movement of cargo across the SADC region. The platform also gives transporters technology to automate & optimise their operations for better efficiency & profitability. We are working towards becoming Africa’s largest transporter based on an asset-lite model. We have recently been awarded South Africa’s 2021 Most Innovative Company in South Africa, after being named AfricArena’s Best Johannesburg Start-up in 2020.

**The Role**
- We are looking for a business focused, entrepreneurial Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to join Tripplo’s executive leadership team. In addition to shaping Tripplo’s technology vision, the CTO will be the bridge between business & technology. You will provide leadership direction on technology & product strategy to accomplish Tripplo’s short, medium & long-term goals. You will take a leading role in scaling the platform, heading up all aspects of product design, technical architecture & technical development.

**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

**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

**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”

**Benefits**:

- You will have the opportunity to partner with the business founder & influence strategy as a technical leader of the business
- Shares in Tripplo through its employee share option program (ESOP)
- You will be working in an exciting start-up environment where you can practise & harness your creativity & innovation.
- You wi

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