Job: Full Stack Development Manager / CTO (Remote)

This company provides a streaming service dedicated to classical music and jazz. Their mission is to give anybody, at any given point in time, an unforgettable and enriching experience with music and arts. With more than 10 different nationalities working in 7 different countries, they embrace diversity and inclusion, and they are committed to build a welcoming place for all.

What is their product?

Their mobile app and website are designed to foster a musical curiosity with playful, fun and high quality content. It caters to an audience who love to discover new music and it provides them a multimedia experience, offering video, audio, and written content. Their subscription-based service provides several payment options for its customers. These are managed by a CRM built by their in-house development team. They also run a TV application that brings high-definition concerts and curated playlists to the living rooms of their subscribers. They decided to put at the disposal of cultural organisations all its stack and know-how. In order to do so, they are building a proper SaaS platform / “Streaming as a Service” for their partners to provide an exceptional musical and cultural experience to their direct customers.

Summary:

They are searching for a Full Stack Development Manager / CTO to enable their company to reach a new level of growth. In this role, you will lead their Developers in high-level orientations, review code and practices and write code yourself.

What is their stack like?

* AWS infrastructure with millions of audio files to serve

* 2 PHP-Symfony applications: CMS/CRM and Music Metadata. Symfony 5 and PHP 7 or 8, MySQL, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Redis.

* DevOps tools such as BitBucket and Bitrise

* Supporting tools such as Sentry and Browserstack

* A Confluence maintained documentation.

What is their team like?

Their tech team put an effort to document and test their code legacy and upgrade their stack to reduce technical debt. Their team consists of 20 employees including developers, content writers, music curators and product managers spread around the world (France, UK, Vietnam, Lebanon, India), all passionate about creating the best digital platform for classical music and jazz. You will closely collaborate with their Developers, Devops, QA Analyst, Product Manager, CEO, Project/Delivery Manager, Data Analyst and their Content and Music teams.

Key tasks:

* Contribute, track and maintain daily operations in an English-first remote-work environment in order to deliver high-quality code frequently. Scrum meetings, technical writing, diagram writing, technical documentation, code reviewing, technical orienteering, prioritisation.

* Code in PHP, React or React Native (or all).

* Collaborate with product and company leadership (“C-levels”), engineers, designers and other stakeholders to define the tech strategy and roadmap.

* Contribute to hiring new technical team members when necessary.

* Maintain a high-quality level of security practices across their company

Required:

* Experience in a technological leadership role (ideally 2 years+)

* Experience in development in PHP (ideally 5 years+)

* Experience or knowledge in React, React Native, Symfony frameworks

* Experience with developing and contributing technically to a SaaS product

Bonus points for:

* Experience with the streaming industry or musical products

* Experience with subscription-based CRM systems

* Fluency in French

Other Stuff;

* £’s; up to approx. £80k with a stock option plan

* Location; fully remote with flexible working hours (working around European time zones – they are headquartered in France with a UK subsidiary)

NB: for non-UK Citizens: we cannot accept applications from anyone requiring sponsorship (now or in the future) for UK permanent employment status. If you are using a work visa this must allow you to work in the UK unrestricted for at least the next 5 years.

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