Strategic Leadership And Technical Vision (60 Percent)

• Define and execute a comprehensive technical vision for Cambium’s platforms, ensuring alignment with the company’s business goals and growth strategy.
• Architect a scalable, modular technology infrastructure across multiple domains, including instant logistics for wood, chain of custody tracking, fintech integration, inventory management, and customer-facing dashboards.
• Lead the design of systems that effectively integrate hardware and software, optimizing performance for real-time logistics and operational management.
• Establish coding standards, best practices, and processes that ensure high code quality, system reliability, and operational efficiency across all platforms.
• Identify performance bottlenecks and implement optimizations to ensure the tech stack performs efficiently, especially in mission-critical areas like logistics and fintech services.
• Ensure security and scalability of all systems, focusing on cloud-based solutions that are built for long-term growth and flexibility.

Product Development And Innovation & Team Building (25 Percent)

• Oversee the development of robust, secure, and scalable systems, focusing on areas such as hardware-software integration, merchant services, and real-time inventory management.
• Collaborate closely with product management and other stakeholders to ensure technical solutions align with product strategies and deliver superior customer experiences.
• AI/ML will play a role in enhancing platform capabilities, and your primary focus will be on building resilient, scalable systems that support Cambium’s growth while utilizing appropriate AI tooling.
• Build and mentor a world-class engineering team, ensuring that talent acquisition, professional development, and culture are top priorities as the team scales.
• Provide hands-on leadership to the engineering organization, guiding both senior leaders and individual contributors to deliver high-impact solutions.
• Drive team expansion efforts, scaling an engineering team to meet the evolving demands of the platform and business.
• Regularly communicate progress, technical vision, and key milestones to the CTO and other leadership team members, ensuring transparency and alignment across the organization.

Collaboration And Team Building (15 Percent)

• Partner closely with product, design, and business teams to ensure seamless alignment between technical strategy and business objectives.
• Regularly communicate progress, technical vision, and key milestones to the CTO and other leadership team members, ensuring transparency and alignment across the organization.
• Support customer-facing initiatives by ensuring that our technology enhances user experience, data transparency, and operational functionality.
• Partner closely with product, design, and business teams to ensure seamless alignment between technical strategy and business objectives.
• Support customer-facing initiatives by ensuring that our technology enhances user experience, data transparency, and operational functionality.

About You (Required)

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, Masters degree preferred, additional certificates of continuous learning encouraged.
• 15+ years of experience leading large-scale engineering teams with deep expertise in architecting and scaling complex, multi-faceted platforms. Preference will be given to candidates with start-up and scale-up experience.
• Proven experience in leading the design and development of complex software architectures, ensuring they align with both scalability demands and business objectives.
• Excel in defining and articulating technical visions and strategies, particularly focusing on scalability, security, and performance to drive forward the company’s goals.
• Expertise in hardware-software integration, fintech platforms, logistics systems, and customer-facing dashboards, with hands-on experience in technical execution.
• Strong ability to balance long-term strategic planning with the need for agile, iterative development to meet business goals.
• Expertise in architecting modular systems and making strategic decisions regarding technology selection, data storage solutions, API design, and integration approaches.
• Strong desire and ability to foster collaboration across various teams, translating complex business requirements into practical technical solutions that align with the product roadmap and customer expectations.
• A passion for mentorship with a track record of building and leading engineering teams, cultivating a culture of innovation, learning, and collaboration within the organization.
• Deep understanding of coding standards, architectural guidelines, and best practices, with a commitment to maintaining high-quality, scalable, and reliable software solutions.
• You constantly find yourself learning about emerging technologies, tools, and trends, and can evaluate their impact on existing and future platform capabilities.
• Top-notch analytical skills, capable of identifying performance bottlenecks and implementing optimizations that enhance system efficiency and responsiveness.
• Dedicated to the continuous improvement of processes, advocating for automation, and enhancing tooling to streamline development workflows and boost productivity.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a keen attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities, with the capacity to work effectively in a team environment.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment and manage multiple tasks concurrently.

Preferred Qualification

Experience as a database architect, senior engineer, and engineering manager, with a desire to serve as both “player-coach,” meaning you like getting your hands dirty in code and systems and you have the experience and know-how to switch from the keyboard to the whiteboard to build a system that is stable, scalable, maintainable.

Skills

software architecture, fintech platforms, hardware-software integration, reporting, logistics systems, cloud solutions, process improvement, scalability, agile development, performance optimization, mentorship, customer-facing dashboards, analytical skills, database architect, ai/ml, team leadership, engineering manager, coding standards, customer, integration, collaboration, software, design, management