Chief Technical Officer (CTO)

Leaf Trade is the leading B2B marketplace between licensed wholesalers of cannabis products and dispensaries in the highly regulated cannabis markets. Leaf Trade streamlines order management and fulfillment by providing a CRM, essential integrations, and other enterprise tools that save time and help grow cannabis businesses.

LeafTrade is looking for a savvy individual who will work directly with our CEO/CRO overseeing all aspects of the firm's technology operations.

The Chief Technology Officer will provide leadership to Leaf Trade's' technology efforts and will be responsible for overseeing all technical aspects of the firm. The CTO will spearhead product delivery and implementation. The successful candidate will be technologically capable, highly motivated, and experienced in developing team members to their fullest potential.

The CTO must have a proven background leading, managing and holding accountable large teams with diverse skillsets. Beyond the day to day management of the technology unit, this role will also include strategic planning, increasing productivity and optimization, cost optimization and special projects.

Specific Responsibilities
• Provide infrastructure architecture and strategy leadership across multiple projects and teams to drive the definition and realization of the global technology strategy, as well as define innovative forward-looking solutions.
• Leverage experience and strong communication skills to effectively collaborate with all internal and external stakeholders.
• Build complex, highly scalable and low latency applications.
• Lead technical requirements gathering sessions and produce technical requirements and design documents.
• Ensure tight collaboration across various programs and functions to drive strategic initiatives, including understanding of the alignment between the technology strategy and various technology road maps.
• Manage the technical delivery of integrations, security and application customization.
• Provide hands on expert level assistance to developers for technical issues.
• Suggest alternative technical solutions to meet client requirements efficiently, and/or with greater re-usability, and/or longer life.
• Promote and coordinate technical knowledge harvesting within the organization. Define, communicate and enforce design/coding standards.
• Identify reusable code required for our code library and ensure the high-quality creation of the code.
• Track and identify new technologies to solve business problems.
• Manage global IT resource allocation, goal setting and performance measurements.
• Effectively cultivate a culture of teamwork and innovation among the staff.

Requirements
• Master's in Computer Science or related field.
• 10+ years of solid experience managing  teams.
• Experience between infrastructure and application development in a Marketplace services environment is a MUST.
• Prior experience scaling existing technology and achieving an ultra-low latency environment.
• Experience with concurrent programming (e.g. multi-threaded, reactor).
• Experience with a scripting or dynamic language (e.g. Python, Ruby, Perl).
• Remote work is possible for the right candidate


Benefits 
  • Competitive salary and meaningful equity 
  • Health insurance 
  • Vacation days, sick days, and corporate holidays 
  • Complimentary gym membership 
  • Fast growth environment 
  • Vibrant company culture within a casual environment

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