Research and Development Office
Advisory board/ Consultant CTO(Chief Technology Officer)
Remote
About the company:
Softermii (https://www.softermii.com/) is an outsourcing/outstaffing company with more than 8 years of experience in web and mobile application development with a team of more than 120 specialists from 6 countries.
We have withstood multiple challenges, such as COVID-19 pandemic and war aggression against Ukraine, we have secured sustainable development processes, saved all our projects and jobs. Even more – we’re constantly growing.
Every day we add new project to our portfolio in the following areas of expertise:
- Healthcare
- Real estate
- Livestream E-commerce
- Fintech (WealthTech, Capital Trading)
- Real Time Communications (RTC)
In addition, we develop 2 of our own solutions that help our customers get faster applications for video or audio calls (https://www.softermii.com/solutions/vidrtc) or an application for real estate with 3D visualization
(https://www.softermii.com/solutions/apartmii)
Company’s mission:
Softermii: Succeed Without (L) imitations
We will turn any idea into a valuable product.
Our plans as a company:
We want to move from a regular outsourcing business to an ecosystem of outsourcing, education and product development companies.
Why we have opened this vacancy: Need a Advisory board/ Consultant CTO to help with solving corner cases of SDO processes and overall processes Audit.
Tasks to be solved:
1.Company level:
- Department structure, responsibilities of middle-level managers.
- People management.
- Unification of coding standards across different projects.
- Unification of DevOps approaches across different projects.
- Improvement of documentation approaches across different projects.
- Optimization of feature flow for iterative development.
- Implementation of best practices in the estimation of projects.
- Approach for customer communication within phases of pre-sale, discovery, and implementation.
- Personal level:
- Activities inside the company (strategic, team performance, architecture, tech etc)
- Time and efforts breakdown between activities. Drivers to have such breakdown.
- Methods and sources for personal skills improvement.
Main tasks in the first 3 months:
- Review existing SDO processes - do an Audit, discuss with the Head, and provide recommendations;
- Work on demand on reported issues from Projects in terms of operational part;
- Join the discussion of Strategic goals for the department and form tactical tasks.
Employment Type: Part-time (up to 10 hours per week)
Your responsibilities in our company will be:
- Be available on demand for the SDO questions with a delay no longer than 1 day;
- Apply experience to define the Root Cause of the problem/gap of the SDO department and provide options for resolution based on best SDO practice;
- Get into details of each escalation from Client side, to effectively suggest resolution and mitigation for it in the future;
- Get tasks offline to prepare proposals, assessments, etc., for the meeting with the COO and Head of Delivery office;
- Hold consultation of COO and Head of Delivery office on demand;
- Hold SDO processes Audit periodically and provide feedback;
- Take a part of SDO Operational Strategy definition;
- Participate in the review and update of the SDO Strategy template;
- Definition of the best effective CTO > Software Engineers interaction model;
- Review of project milestones from a SDO perspective and check-points for it;
- Review checklists for Project launch and Production deployment.
Our requirements to you:
- 10+ years of experience in the Software Engineering;
- 4+ years of experience in Software management (as a Lead/Head).
- 5+ years of experience in outsourcing/outstaffing companies;
- Managed QTY of Developers of more than 10;
- Solid experience in Strategy planning;
- Proven pre-sale\discovery experience;
- Upper-Intermediate English level.
Who will you have the opportunity to meet during the hiring process (stages):
HR Interview, Interview with Heads, Final interview with CTO
SDO team: 28 Software Engineers, 3 Team/Tech Lead, Head of Development Department
What we can offer you:
- We have stable and highly-functioning processes – everyone has their own role and clear responsibilities, so decisions are made quickly and without unnecessary approvals.
- You will have enough independence to make decisions that can affect not only the project but also the work of the company.
- We are a team of like-minded experts who create interesting products during working hours, and enjoy spending free time together.
- Do you like to learn something new in your profession or do you want to improve your English? We will be happy to pay 50% of the cost of courses/conferences/speaking clubs.
- Do you want an individual development plan? We will form one especially for you + you can count on mentoring from our seniors and leaders.
- Do you have a friend who is currently looking for new job opportunities? Recommend them to us and get a bonus.
- And what if you want to relax? Then we have 21 working days off.
- What if you are feeling bad? You can take 5 sick leaves a year.
- Do you want to volunteer? We will add you to a chat, where we can get a bulletproof vest, buy a pickup truck or send children's drawings to the front.
- And we have the most empathetic HRs (who also volunteers!). So we are ready to support your well-being in various ways.
A little more information that you may find useful:
- our adaptation period lasts 3 months, this period of time is enough for us to understand each other better;
- there is a performance review after each year of our collaboration where we use a skills map to track your growth;
- we really have no boundaries in the truest sense of the word – we have flexible working day, remote or office is up to you.
Of course, we have a referral bonus system. So if you have a friend who likes our job opening, you can give us their telegram contact, and we in turn will thank you with a bonus if we start working with them!
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