GrantWatch Hands-on CTO
Overview
GrantWatch is a family of websites which provides a directory of grants and funding opportunities available to businesses in the United States. GrantWatch is looking for a new hands-on CTO to take leadership of the technology side of the business, reporting directly to the CEO.
This is a full-time, remote, role.
Person Specification
GrantWatch is looking for a person who is:
- An excellent communicator, both written and verbally
- Trustworthy and dependable
- A big-picture thinker
- Curious and able to challenge the status quo
- Will grow into the role and grow with the business
Responsibilities
o Technology Lead
- Overall responsibility for the availability, performance and security of the technology stack
- Setting technical direction for the organization
- Lead projects to improve and rebuild parts of the stack
- Manage team members and third parties to deliver technology excellence
o Senior Developer
- Hands-on development of website optimizations and changes
- Investigate and troubleshoot errors
- Build integrations with third-party APIs
o Support
- Provide second-line support
- Where necessary, interface with hosting providers, third parties etc. to investigate and resolve issue
o Sysadmin
- Interface with hosting provider to manage website hosting
- Some DBA activities in conjunction with hosting provider
Requirements
The candidate must:
- Be a native English speaker or with excellent business English
- Be able to work US (east coast) hours with some overlap with team in Middle East
- Have proven experience with the technology stack:
- PHP
- One or more of: Zend, CodeIgnitor, another MVC framework
- Wordpress
- Linux
- MySQL
- Payment providers such as Stripe and PayPal
- Familiarity with SEO a plus
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