Advisory board/ Consultant CTO(Chief Technology Officer)

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.

 

1. 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:

1. Review existing SDO processes - do an Audit, discuss with the Head, and provide recommendations;
2. Work on demand on reported issues from Projects in terms of operational part;
3. 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:

1. We have stable and highly-functioning processes – everyone has their own role and clear responsibilities, so decisions are made quickly and without unnecessary approvals. 
2. You will have enough independence to make decisions that can affect not only the project but also the work of the company.
3. We are a team of like-minded experts who create interesting products during working hours, and enjoy spending free time together.
4. 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.
5. Do you want an individual development plan? We will form one especially for you + you can count on mentoring from our seniors and leaders.
6. Do you have a friend who is currently looking for new job opportunities? Recommend them to us and get a bonus.
7. And what if you want to relax? Then we have 21 working days off.
8. What if you are feeling bad? You can take 5 sick leaves a year.
9. 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.
10. 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!