What's a CTO actually do? We're hiring one at ScraperWiki

[Francis Irving]

Hi all,

Do you know anyone who would make a good CTO for ScraperWiki?

If so please forward this to them!

If you were doing the job, you'd describe it like this...

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I'm <insert your name here>, and my job title is Chief Technology Officer.

I make sure our platform works well.

There are trade-offs between our resources and technical quality. Features,
lack of bugs, performance, security and backups all matter. I pick what matters
most.

I do this by leading technically the platform team. We use Extreme Programming
(XP), and I pair program much of the time. I'm confident with open source Unix
technologies, have used a wide variety at all levels of the stack, and quickly
learn new ones.

I recruit new members of the team, and help them become better programmers by
example and by coaching. I organise any out of hours on-call that we need.

I keep track of technologies, both open source projects and proprietary hosted
services, so I know which are most suitable for ScraperWiki. I advise on
technical aspects of possible acquisitions and partnerships.

I make programmers who use the platform happy by making developer APIs that are
a joy to use.

More broadly in the company, I promote a culture of excellent and professional
software practices. For example, guiding design of libraries and use of tools
amongst data scientists.

I like giving talks and writing technical articles, to communicate what we do.
I'm comfortable in commercial situations, and describe the key benefits of the
technologies we use in ways customers find compelling.

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Full details and application instructions here:
https://scraperwiki.com/jobs/#swjob9

Francis