Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Chama is a game-changing technology scale-up. Millions of people benefit from the company’s disruptive business model. Chama’s app enables households to order home-delivered gas cylinders with their smartphones. The new Chief Technology Officer (CTO) scales Chama’s engineering and product teams to grow the business in Brazil and beyond.

UBER FOR RESIDENTIAL GAS DELIVERY

Most households in Brazil rely on bottled gas for cooking and hot water use. For cylinder replacement, they depend on a nontransparent market with high prices, slow delivery and dangerously installed bottles by clandestine dealers. Chama brings much-needed price and quality transparency. They make ordering gas cheaper, faster and safer.

Chama’s app gives consumers an overview of all accredited resellers delivering in their area, including prices, delivery times and user ratings. The company currently serves 1.4 million households in Sao Paolo, Porto Alegre, Belo Horizonte, and Curitiba.

Chama grows with 10 to 20 percent month-over-month, and has secured a substantial long-term investment to continue its extraordinary growth trajectory. First focus is conquering Brazil. Next step is entering other major markets in Latin and South America, Africa and Asia.

“The CTO is key in realizing our growth ambitions. As a company that revolves around technology, maturing our product eco-system and DevOps organization is critical for our future success.” – Marijn van de Ven, Founder and CEO

CTO: MANAGING TECH AND PRODUCT

The CTO leads the central tech and product teams. He/she reports to the CEO and has 4 Tech Chapter Leads and the Head of Product as direct reports. The CTO has five main responsibilities.

Technical strategy and architecture

He/she formulates the technical strategy to handle the increasing user, dealer and driver base and establishes development and deployment practices to match growing volumes.

Team development

The CTO manages 30 to 40 people in total (tech and product). He/she doubles the size of the teams in two years’ time. Scaling up requires e.g. evolving recruitment and professionalizing work methods.

Product planning

The CTO develops the product roadmap. He/she allocates resources between technology and product development, managing business priorities.

Development practices

The CTO enables regular high-quality releases. He/she empowers engineers to rapidly test and deploy their ideas and builds a culture of measurement, accountability, and quality.

Operations and security

The CTO ensures robustness, performance, and availability of the platform. He/she makes sure customers, dealers and drivers are well protected in using Chama’s technology.

Candidate profile

EXPERIENCE

• MSc in Computer Science and 10+ years of work experience
• Managed a large (ideally 80+, but at least 30) team of engineers, designers, and PMs
• Significant experience with a globally scaled mobile application
• Technical expertise in platform scaling, app performance, analytics and API platforms

PERSONALITY

• People manager
• Influencer
• Problem solver
• Flexibility to work in Dutch / European and Latin American culture