Hands-on CTO - Charity job - up to $150k - Remote

25 Mar 2024

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Hands-on CTO - Non-for-profit, Charity Sector - 100% Remote, up to $150,000 plus great benefits - Python, Hands-on/Technically credible, Opensource technology

The Charity

This charity builds the tools to make it possible and easy for the Scientific Research Community to make scientific investigations' data, results, and outcomes open, transparent, and reproducible. Their team is dedicated to improving the alignment between scientific values and scientific practices to improve the accumulation and application of knowledge. Operating with a technology start-up mindset, the team moves quickly, identifies problems and creates solutions, encourages risk-taking, blends science and technology, and is collaborative, high energy, and dedicated to openness. This will have huge implications for increased transparency for the drug/health sector in the US, in addition to debunking fraudulent claims.

The Role

We are looking for a hands-on leader that can effectively manage a talented team of software developers (Python, JavaScript/Flask), and quality assurance engineers. We're looking for you to set the standards by creating a best-practice engineering, TDD environment. You'll not need to be hands-on, however be very close to the code and be able to show others how you'd like things doing when needed and performing regular code reviews with your team. The ideal candidate will have experience contributing to Opensource and start-up SaaS product experience and be able to help navigate the tensions of being a non-profit with sustainability goals.

Objectives:

  • Execution of the product vision and strategy in support of the organization's mission, goals, and strategic objectives for providing open source open science infrastructure
  • Responsible for understanding both the needs of the organization's business strategy and the needs of the engineering resources, finding the balance to minimize cost and maximize results.

Responsibilities:

  • Provides technical leadership to the engineering team to enable high performance, efficient processes, and effective delivery of software projects to meet organizational goals.
  • Technical staff management through effective coaching, mentoring, onboarding, performance management, and delivery processes to build capacity in management, planning, and execution of the product vision and strategy and provide opportunities for growth.
  • Foster accountability among team members for estimating, delivering on time, meeting deadlines, communicating issues, and acknowledging accomplishments. Encourage ownership over areas of code, a process, a product, a project, to help accumulate accountability among team members.
  • Ensure efficient and effective product development processes across the infrastructure team to enable teams for continual success in the execution of projects, priorities, and strategic objectives with effective communication, and establish regular evaluation of the processes at work in the product development projects to understand what is working well and what is not. Work alongside teams to propose refinements and improvements to continuously improve efficiency of projects moving through the process.
  • Facilitates the establishment and execution of a lucid and intentional technical vision and architecture aligned with the product vision and strategy, ensuring stakeholder alignment and shared knowledge across the infrastructure team members.
  • Leads collaboration with members across the infrastructure team to determine what is the current amount of technical debt, what are the highest priorities, and the biggest areas of risk for the infrastructure as it relates to the product and technical vision and scaling, and brings shared understanding and visibility to deferred maintenance and impacts, establishes priority and roadmap for continued effort to reduce accumulation of debt, and communicate our progress.
  • Facilitate discussions of the senior engineering members and the senior product members to align the product vision and roadmap with the technical architecture and maintenance approach.
  • Institute, model, and ensure continued strong bidirectional communication within and across teams to remove silos and increase open, transparent information flow.
  • Support increased financial insights and planning to drive a cost-efficient budget strategy to achieve infrastructure sustainability goals.

The Qualities

  • Experience at effectively leading best practice Fullstack engineering teams
  • Be able to lead code reviews in Python and JavaScript
  • SaaS Product experience
  • Experience contributing to Opensource, either professionally or in your own time as apart of a community
  • Deep expertise in project management, associated tools (e.g., JIRA), and agile development practices
  • Efficient technical troubleshooting
  • Strong technical insight to support resourcing, prediction, and management of software engineering team
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Deep experience leading, mentoring, and managing teams (hiring, managing, performance reviews)
  • Organizational skills and ability to work on multiple projects and/or assignments simultaneously
  • Understand the deployment lifecycle from design, build, test, deploy, and evaluation of success
  • Experience with API-powered web applications
  • Bonus - charity sector experience

The Benefits

  • 401(k) with employer match. The charity offers a matching contribution of 100% up to 3% of pay and another 50% up to 5% of pay (the full match will be 4% if participants elect to defer 5%)
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance. 100% of employee premium is covered and 50% of all dependent coverage costs under the base plan
  • 20 days paid time off in year
  • Option to enroll in Health and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
  • 11 paid holidays a year
  • COS offers paid leave for up to three months to all full-time, regular employees to care for their child after birth, after or during the adoption process, or to care for their spouse, child, or parent who has a serious health condition as well as for the employee's own serious health condition

Apply Now!

A lot of people dream of using their skills and experience for good, this charity has far reaching impacts that indirectly benefit every American, so be apart of the change for good and apply today!

Hands-on CTO - Non-for-profit, Charity Sector - 100% Remote, up to $150,000 plus great benefits - Python, Hands-on/Technically credible, Opensource technology

Oscar Associates Limited (US) is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

  • ID: #49543625
  • State: North Carolina Charlotte 28202 Charlotte USA
  • City: Charlotte
  • Salary: - $150000 per annum
  • Job type: Permanent
  • Showed: 2023-03-25
  • Deadline: 2023-05-23
  • Category: Et cetera