### **We're on a mission to improve health through nutrition. **
At Simple, we believe that improving health through nutrition is the most
effective way to make a positive impact on the world. There is strong evidence
showing the connection between health behaviors and future diseases. Effective
interventions will allow people to live longer, healthier lives, and Simple is
committed to making this a reality.
Simple is a successful mobile product that has a user base of over 15 million
people and has over 100% year-over-year revenue growth. It helps people
improve their nutritional habits through personalized programs, meal tracking,
and health insights, which allows them to lead healthier and happier lives.
Now, we are taking the next big step and working on a new revolutionary AI
product that helps each person improve their health in a fun and engaging way.
As an innovative visionary, you will lead a great team of 50 engineers, using
the most efficient technology to solve user problems, setting a strong
culture, and having the opportunity to impact the health of hundreds of
millions of people.
Push the pace of innovation and build a future of a healthier world with us!
### **What You’ll Do:**
* Build a highly effective engineering organization that is ready to make revolutionary products and scale them to the top
* Attract, develop, and retain the best people to support our rapid growth and success
* Build healthy agile teams while establishing a strong culture of innovation that is consistent with aggressive growth plans
* Partner cross-functionally to maximize the effectiveness of the technical roadmap for the business and our users
* Empower the engineering team towards innovation and focus on continuously delivering value to our users
* Communicate the company's technology strategy to stakeholders
* Identify roadblocks preventing the success of strategic themes and find resolutions.
* Develop and implement technology strategies - mobile and web apps, backend services, all kinds of integrations with 3rd parties
* Direct engineering processes and manage technology resources
* Balance the creation of new functionality for current and future users’ needs, infrastructure management, and the elimination of technical debt
* Ensure the efficient use of various forms of technology within the company, including the improvement of current technological assets and the implementation of new technologies as necessary.
* Oversee the development and maintenance of technology systems
* Drive innovation in the market through use of machine learning-based technologies and solutions
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### **What We Look For:**
* 5+ years of proven experience as a CTO or similar leadership role, preferably in a mobile B2C high-growth product
* The ability to offer world-class technology guidance on how to utilize technology to achieve short and long-term organizational goals.
* Experience in navigating rapid growth while maintaining both a healthy product and a healthy organization
* Experience working and recruiting in a high-growth environment, scaling an engineering team from 50+ employees.
* Extensive knowledge of people leadership practices, such as change management, recruiting, hiring, people development, performance management, and compensation administration
* Expert understanding of software development processes and lifecycle
* Consistent record of meeting business targets
* Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
* Experience in managing distributed teams
### **Why you might be excited about us:**
* You will help people improve their health and lives through nutrition.
* Preferably relocation to Cyprus
* Open team communication. You can directly influence the product and its metrics;
* A competitive salary package based on your unique expertise, skillset, and impact on the product;
* A stock option plan for every employee. When Simple does well, everyone wins;
* Top technical equipment, health insurance, relocation program, friendly and highly qualified colleagues, and healthy snacks in our office's kitchen (if you are in Cyprus).
**About our values: **
* **Think deeper:** We understand that in order to grow we need to make all our decisions reality-based and change our opinion based on what we learn. We appreciate data coming in various forms – quantitative and qualitative, feedback from users and colleagues, and strong and weak signals.We treat data as the main source for leveraging insights and expect people at every level to have conversations that start with data.
* **Focus on impact:** Results and speed matter _._ When we are competing to become an A-player in the digital health market, we don’t have the luxury of deliberation. We need to make decisions and changes quickly and, swiftly learn from our mistakes.We prioritize what will have the greatest impact and aren’t distracted by anything else. We create products that benefit users while we are meeting our metrics.
* **Take ownership:** We seek to improve all facets of our company even in ways beyond our job description. We seek and take responsibility for our actions and their impact. We value and set high expectations for our own work so that it can add to the overall quality and innovation results of the team. Each one of us is empowered to make this company a success, take the lead to resolve disagreements and systemic issues.
* **Push the limits:** We encourage our team to explore new ideas, challenge conventional thinking, and continuously improve work. This mindset can lead to breakthroughs in product development, improved operational efficiency, and increased competitiveness in the market. We believe that a culture and mindset of constantly striving to exceed existing standards, boundaries, or expectations that include innovation, experimentation, and a willingness to take risks, can bring us success. We don't accept what someone says as truth if we disagree with it, no matter what authority that person has in the company and express ourselves directly, not through back channels. We challenge ideas, from policy to product decisions, and always seek to understand the reason behind what we do.
* **Be a Championship Team:** As a part of the championship team, you must improve your own performance constantly also know your teammates, their talents and skills and be focused on a common goal and how to achieve it together. We hold each other accountable for our contribution to the shared success or failure, and we constantly look for ways to help our colleagues to improve and for us to perform better as a team. We collaborate within the team in order to compete with challengers in the outside world. We build relationships of trust. We provide our teammates with the autonomy and support they need to deliver their part of the goal.
