CTO – Internationally Scaling Medical/ Healthcare Business

Are you an experienced CTO or Head of Software Engineering looking for an exciting new challenge?

Would you like to work for a fast-growing business who are changing peoples lives for the better?

We have partnered exclusively with a UK based business who are about to embark on international expansion. Since they were established 9 years ago, they have revolutionised the world of IVF Treatment changing peoples lives and in turn, saving other’s thousands of pounds.

Due to growth, they are looking to hire a CTO. The successful candidate will lead a small but growing team of Software Engineers and will lead the evolution and expansion of their CRM to meet the needs of their new business initiatives.

“Our CRM system is the centre of our universe and for us to scale it needs to be constantly evolving and improving”

What you’ll do

  • Lead the technology team and be an active member of the company leadership team
  • Build a technology road-map, assessing the opportunities and gaps between future state and current operating model
  • Improve an ambitious, agile implementation approach to progress our technical goals
  • Leverage existing infrastructure & applications to deliver and maximise tangible business outcomes
  • Work closely with the broader (non-technical) team to understand our business and its needs
  • Mentor and manage existing and new developers
  • Develop the IT budgets and forecast between the IT senior team and Group Finance Lead on software quality, drive the technical vision, and ensure staff and customers are satisfied with service levels
  • Champion agile best practices and setup and enforce a CI/CD pipeline
  • Build excellent relationships with the wider business
  • Facilitate problem solving and work with the team to deliver solutions
  • Work in an ambitious and dynamic team embracing the latest technologies
  • Help to coach other engineers and make a positive difference to the team

Your Background/ Experience

  • leadership experience
  • 5+ years of working in high growth businesses where rapid change and development is central to business success
  • Hands-on development experience with a broad range of languages, frameworks, and technologies, but ideally several years experience with PHP and Laravel
  • Passionate about robust software engineering practice and craftsmanship
  • A proven track record with OO programming, including design patterns
  • Experience with Front End frameworks/libraries ES6, SCSS e.g. Angular, React or Vue.js
  • Experience working with RESTful APIs
  • Experience with Agile, CD approaches and industry good practice such as CI, TDD, and BDD etc.
  • Working knowledge of clean code approaches such as refactoring, clean code, domain driven design, and encapsulation

This is an exciting opportunity to help us shape the future of IVF treatment across the globe!

*Flexible/ Remote Working Options*

£100,000 – £125,000 + Annual Bonus & Great Benefits (Dependent on experience)

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