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Need a Tech cofounder for a travel startup

Ankit Maloo , Mumbai · linkedin.com/in/ankitmaloo · Partner for a venture · Programming

Description:
A technical cofounder's main role is to execute the company's business mission successfully through development and deployment of the company's technological infrastructure - front end, business logic and backend. This requires envisioning the company’s service offerings as a web-based business, leading implementation of web applications, and planning for risk and growth.

Job Responsibilities:
Strategy and Planning:
- In partnership with company's founders, identify the opportunities and risks and assessment of technical hurdles and marketplace obstacles to the business success
- Creating, managing and executing the technical and product roadmap for the success of the business.
- Identify technology trends and evolving social behavior that may support or impede the success of the business.
- Evaluate and identify appropriate technology platforms (including web application frameworks and the deployment stack) for delivering the company’s services.
- Lead strategic planning to achieve business goals by identifying and prioritizing development initiatives and setting timetables for the evaluation, development, and deployment of all web-based services.
- Collaborate with the appropriate departments to assess and recommend technologies that support company organizational needs.
- Communicate the company’s technology strategy to investors, management, staff, partners, customers, and stakeholders.

Implementation and Deployment:
- Collaborate with the founders and potential customers to develop use cases (or user stories) and specifications that describe the implementation of the company’s services
- Collaborate with a User Experience Designer and potential customers to prepare wireframes or mockups of a prototype of the company’s web application.
- Select or define the company’s software development methodology.
- Establish a specification conformance and testing regimen based on user stories and the User Experience design.
- Promulgate coding conventions and documentation standards.
- Review current best practices for the selected web framework and establish the initial architecture for the application.
- Evaluate and select web application hosting providers.
- Establish an application deployment process and supervise deployment to staging and production servers.
- Monitor application performance and review any application failures in staging or production.
- Establish and monitor a web analytics tool that measures site traffic and application usage relative to business goals.
- Support the marketing process by providing implementation of technical requirements for Internet marketing and search engine optimization.

Operations:
- Ensure that technology standards and best practices are maintained across the organization.
- Share knowledge, mentor, and educate the organization’s investors, management, staff, partners, customers, and stakeholders with regard to the company’s technological vision, opportunities, and challenges.
- Ensure company technical problems are resolved in a timely and cost-effective manner.
- Develop, track, and control the development and deployment annual operating and capital budgets for purchasing, staffing, and operations.
- Supervise recruitment, training, retention, and organization of all development staff in accordance with the company hiring process, personnel policies, and budget requirements.
- Contribute to open source software development, standardization of technologies, and evolution of best practices by collaborating with peers outside the company, releasing code, presenting at conferences, and writing for publication (online or offline).

You are or you have
- Demonstrated ability to envision web-based services that meet consumer needs or solve business problems at another company or opensource ( a github profile would be nice)
- Passion and enthusiasm to build things just for the fun of it.
- Rigour and demonstrated examples to break the existing systems and found loopholes in existing products or technologies.
- An understanding of the intersection of business and technology decisions. This is important since the technical decisions often have a profound impact on overall health of the startup. So it is expected that you will be able to access the business impact of the technical decisions.
- An expertise in one of these languages/frameworks: Python, ROR, react or any of the other emerging technologies
- Ability to prioritize, an ability to meet deadlines without compromising the quality, and an ability to keep things organised.
- Superior analytical, evaluative and problem solving abilities.

If this sounds like you, drop a mail with your resume/github profile and lets have a chat.

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