Chief Technology Officer

This is what it's about
**Please note**: this position can be occupied in Berlin, Munich, Zurich or completely remote in Switzerland or Germany.
**Part-time scope**: at least 80%
You want to play a key role in shaping our platform, our tech strategy and internal processes to drive the growth of RaiseNow, an innovative Tech4Good company?
Join us as our CTO and drive the direction and success of RaiseNow in using your knowledge and understanding of architecture, compliance, scalability and infrastructure. You are responsible for developing a sustainable and scalable software as a service (SaaS) product for organisations and charitable giving in Europe.
Our tech department currently consists of 5 cross-functional teams and ~25 Engineers in over 7 countries. In our remote-first setup we cherish our strong team spirit and believe work can be both: meaningful and fun.
Your mission
As RaiseNow’s CTO (f/d/m) you
- Shape our tech strategy: You further develop, implement and live RaiseNow's tech strategy and bring it to the tech teams
- Prepare our platform for scaling and growth: You balance tech debt and agile product development to continuously improve our platform
- Are responsible for the software architecture of RaiseNow: you oversee the technical development and take decisions to make sure we efficiently develop products according to our vision and reduce inefficiencies and technical debt constantly
- Manage performance of our platform and technical risks which means establishing missing processes or improving existing ones
- Are a great communicator: not only do you work closely with our Head of Product, CEO and COO and other internal departments, but you also represent RaiseNow externally to partners, stakeholders, at events and more
- Live and shape our tech culture: You are a strong advocate of knowledge sharing, ownership and have high quality standards, which you also carry in our Tech Department. You inspire our engineers to continuously improve our product

**Profile**:

- You are experienced as a CTO or in a similar position, where you demonstrated strong leadership skills and were involved in strategic decisions of the company
- You have in depth knowledge of the European payment domain
- You keep up with the latest technological trends to build RaiseNow’s Tech strategy
- You have accompanied a company through a phase of rapid growth and know what decisions are needed to scale a platform
- You have experience in a B2B SaaS company balancing tech debt and agile product development
- You have a strong understanding of budgets and business-planning to make sure our infrastructure is optimised for performance and costs
- You have experience in a regulated environment and with certifications such as PCI DSS but also GDPR or ISO/SOC
- You’re able to conduct technological analyses and research to continuously advance our architecture
- Strong command in English (C1-C2)

Our Tech Stack
- PHP 7.4, Symfony 4.4 (yes, we're about to upgrade)
- Ruby 3.04, Ruby on Rails 6.1 (moving to 7 in Q4 2024)
- React, Vue.JS 2/3, Redux, TypeScript, Cypress, Jest, Ant Design
- Behat, PHPUnit, PHPSpec for different use cases in the services
- MySQL, PostgreSQL 13, RabbitMQ, ELK stack
- Docker containers on AWS ECS Fargate
- Selected AWS services (Lambda, S3, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB, RDS,)
- CI/CD through Bitbucket pipelines
- ElastiCache, Route53, CloudFront

Why RaiseNow
- A future-oriented job in a meaningful environment with an international team
- Enjoy flexibility around your working time and place: We offer flexible work schedules with annual working time as well as temporary working abroad options all in a remote first setup
- 5 weeks paid annual leave plus additional PTO days per year with RaiseNow + your birthday as PTO
- We know that time is precious: We’re part of the pledge 1% initiative, offer sabbatical options and yearly educational leave for everyone
- Your health is important: our partner Instahelp gives you free access to psychological counselling when you're not feeling well
- The perks of joining a scaleup: short decision paths, transparent communication and regular team events + one workation per year to meet all colleagues in one spot
- An innovative working environment with a culture of transparency, trust, and mutual respect
- Project autonomy and space for personal development from the beginning