Five Jars is looking for a Chief Technical Officer to manage the company’s technologies, engineers, IT support, and tech partners and conduct due diligence operations.

If you are an ambitious person ready to take on a new challenge and know how to manage and support software development teams, we have a great opportunity for you!

Day-to-day responsibilities
Responsibilities that candidates will have daily.

Strategy & Leadership (30%)

• Build a technological vision for the company for 1, 3, 5 years;
• Build Development/Support/QA team OKRs and strategy;
• Ensuring tech strategy is aligned with business targets;
• Build relationships with technology partners (like Platform.sh). Lead and oversee the certification process;
• Continuously research and build a roadmap for CMSs, frameworks, and technologies we use and will use;
• Verify all technological practices adhere to regulatory standards and compliance;
• Identify and implement innovative technologies that yield competitive advantage;
• Grow the technical culture in the company
• Be the product owner of the internal technical services, identify problems and create new technical decisions to solve it;
• Build a learning and education roadmap for the development team (overall and individually) to grow professionally (courses, new technologies, new approaches);
• Participate in performance reviews and help tech team members grow.

Pre-Sales (30%)

• Attend pre-sales meetings and perform clients interview for technical direction;
• Build architecture and estimates for new projects;
• Preparing proposals in collaboration with the sales team;
• Analyze the requirements and propose technical solutions;
• Estimate projects and provide estimate reviews;
• Present proposals to the client and represent the team from the technical standpoint;
• Hand over won projects to delivery teams and ensure that all findings and expectations of the pre-sales phase are captured and understood;
• Unify process of estimations;
• Improving the quality of project estimation (understanding competitors, analyzing previous results, improving tools);

Delivery (30%)

• Consult team and work closely on the architecture and approach with Tech Leads and Solutions Architect;
• Consult team and work closely on the strategy and roadmap of the QA team;
• Consult prospective and existing clients on technical solutions;
• Serve as a bridge between sales and delivery teams;
• Provide project delivery management and help in hiring proper people;
• Improving the projects’ quality (implementation of processes for technical mentoring, supervision, code review, etc.);
• Maintaining the price-quality resource balance (hiring talented juniors and helping them to grow, cooperating with the recruitment department to find high-experienced candidates for complex tasks);
• Reducing the price of the project by reusing our experience on other projects

Marketing (10%) - non-billable

• Build relationships and be an active technology community member (Drupal, WordPress, Symfony, etc.)
• Build relationships and be an active member of industry-specific communities (Tessitura, YMCA and etc.)
• Participate in marketing activities, like doing research, recording videos, and providing information for blog posts
• Represent the company from the technical standpoint on conferences and events

Professional skills.

Required professional skills for being successful with goals and responsibilities.

Hard skills

• Experience in a team lead, lead developer, or similar position that includes pre-sales, architecture, and technical delivery;
• Knowledge of PHP, Drupal, Symfony, or Laravel;
• Knowledge of JavaScript frameworks;
• Knowledge of DevOps tools and processes;
• Excellent English;
• Pre-sales/Sales experience.

Soft-skills

• Responsibility and leadership by example;
• Pro-activity and ability to find solutions to project challenges;
• Easy to communicate ;

As a plus:

• Open source contributions;
• Someone from the Drupal Ukraine Community or another country Drupal community; 
• Speaking at events and conferences.

We Propose

• 100% remote work;
• Fair compensation;
• Benefits such as vacation, sick leave, a day off during official national holidays;
• Flexible schedule and 7-hour working day;
• Regular Friday Open Microphones about different tech things from other team members;
• Help with learning new things (courses, books, etc.);
• Support in participating in conferences;
• Warm and friendly working environment;
• Flexibility in making decisions, no micromanagement;
• Respect and support with all activities;
• Team building and other sorts of online/offline team activities.

Who we are

At Claravine we help large organizations solve difficult data consistency and accuracy problems, often within their marketing groups. We do this through a web SaaS product that enables customers to set their own data standards and provides a way for their teams to validate their data.

This may be your first time hearing about Claravine, but you have definitely seen ads that used Claravine as part of their creation. Claravine helps several Fortune 500 companies that operate on a global scale.

About Us

We are a team of people who solve difficult problems through web SaaS, which is why we are more interested in smart problem-solvers than experts with specific languages or frameworks. We work in small cross-functional teams that are truly empowered to make a large impact on the entire company.

We work with a lot of data and integrate with other platforms. We currently accomplish this through a tech stack of Kotlin (Spring), PHP (Laravel), React, Node (Typescript), MySQL, AWS, Kubernetes, and remote development environments.

What You Will Do

• Bring up your ideas to help us improve
• Recharge when you need it, not only when you have enough PTO accrued
• Solve complex technical problems through creative solutions
• Directly impact the entire SaaS company through your contributions
• Wear multiple hats and own part of a startup (e.g., code, testing, deployments, etc.)

Job Requirements

• You live within 4 hours time zone of Mountain Standard Time (UTC-7)
• You are looking for full-time (no time-bound contracts, part-time hours, etc.)
• You are fluent in English for both speaking and writing
• You have professional experience running applications in the cloud
• You are interested in working with several different technologies
• You like communicating with others
• You can work on problems without being given instructions for each step

Our Ideal Candidate

• Has 2+ years of experience with core AWS services (RDS, EKS, S3, IAM)
• Has 2+ years of experience with Version Control managed CI/CD configuration (CircleCI, Gitlab, Github Actions, etc.)
• Has at least 1 year of experience working with Kubernetes
• Has at least 1 year of experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform preferred)
• Has experience with infrastructure & service monitoring
• Has familiarity with the concepts of CDNs and data geo-replication
• Has experience running SOC 2 compliant infrastructure
• Has an interest in wearing multiple hats (e.g., potentially writing some code, assisting with QA automation, etc.)

What We Offer You

• A virtual-first, distributed team model; this role can be performed remotely or in-person from our office in Lehi, Utah
• Opportunity to be a central player in building a high performance partner program
• Upwardly-mobile role in a fast-growing enterprise SaaS company
• Competitive salary and compensation
• Health, dental and vision benefits package, and 401(k) matching program
• Family leave program (Maternity, Paternity) and unlimited PTO
• Regularly planned team outings and company events
• Investment in the tools and technologies you need to succeed 
• Opportunity to work with a fun, collaborative, values-driven team

Our Recruiting Process

• Intro with recruitment
• Meet the Director of Engineering
• Technical and cultural interview with the Engineering team

Starting Salary Range: $105,000 - $115,000

Claravine believes in equal opportunity for all. All applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status. No agency, please.