COMPANY DESCRIPTION

Multi-award winning EdTech Gaming studio, Brainspark Games is building Free, culturally inclusive, AI-powered, Augmented Reality educational mobile games aligned with the UK national curriculum, for 7-13yos and GCSEs students. We condense 12 weeks term time learning into a few hours of fun, fast game play.

Having won numerous awards and grants including; 8 x Innovate UK grant winners, Top European Tech Startup To ‘AWE XR Watch Auggie Award 2023,’ ASU+GSV Elite 200 (world’s top 200 most innovative EdTech companies), Top 30 Global Winner of GSV & Unity ‘EdTech Creator Challenge’ and selected for Creative Industries Councils ‘100 Ones to Watch 2021’, featured in UK TechNews as “One of London’s Most Diverse Tech Startups”, Brainspark Games is one of the UK’s most innovate, EdTech Gaming startups in the UK.

JOB DESCRIPTION

We are seeking a mission-driven, highly-skilled Tech Lead/Interim CTO with a passion for education and video games! This role provides an opportunity to not only develop the company’s technological backbone but to influence the culture of a multi-award winning, fast growing Edtech gaming startup.

The Tech Lead/Interim CTO will be incentivised, and tasked with making executive technology decisions on behalf of the company, including managing a technology budget and leading hiring. If you’re a hands-on strategic thinker, an effective communicator, delivery focused expert in innovative technological development across Web3 and immersive mobile games, then we’d like to hear from you. Working with the CEO, you will act as both a technology and business expert, making decisions that will impact the current and future growth of the company.

RESPONSBILITIES

• Technical Innovation; Design and manage platform architecture, innovation and improvements
• Strategy; Develop long-term vision for, and research/producing documentation to support, Brainparks’s technical strategy
• Tech architecture; Execute tech strategy/framework for resource allocation aligned with ambitions for global expansion and localisation
• Knowledge transfer; Cultivate and coach technology leaders and team leaders that may not be tech inclined
• Leadership; Lead and mentor engineers enabling them to realise their full potential
• Methodologies; Define processes and methodologies for effective execution by teams, meeting tight budget and project lead times adopting a strong project management approach
• Team; Partner with other teams aligning to achieve company goals and highest quality product
• Efficient; Ensure technologies are used innovatively, efficiently, profitably, and securely
• Budgets: Manage budgets and resources
• Hiring: create hiring plans and support recruitment through crafting accurate JDs, interviewing and onboarding
• Investment: supporting/attending investment pitches with the Founder where necessary
• Set OKRs/ Goals; Establish goals and OKRs based on high standard for success, drawing on strengths of, and inspiring/motivating team

REQUIREMENTS

• Experience in a Tech Lead, VP of Technology, Principal Architect position, and/or CTO ideally having experience with building and running a SaaS in a start up / scale up and across some of the following: Video Content, Social, Commerce, Community, Games, Edtech etc.
• Ability to think strategically and anticipate technology needs 6-12+ months down the road
• Capable of driving complex technology shifts, including the ability to break down complex innovation processes and projects into clear, ambitious, and realistic strategies for execution so they can be built rapidly and tested prototypes prior to deployment
• Track record with front-end (React, Unity, WebGL, Android, iOS, React), back-end (Kotlin, REST, AWS, PHP8/Symfony4, AWS/Azure), AI, ML, web
• Past experience as a hands-on software engineer, ideally on back and front end systems and Unity client
• Ability to take concepts from vision to technical solutions working with business, technical, management, and subject matter experts to deliver products or platform capabilities
• Experience with AI and applying machine learning solutions to real world problems, ideally around natural language processing
• Proven track record of building and leading high-performance technology teams, and an ability to attract and retain talented individuals
• An inspirational leader, capable of motivating a team towards both innovation and implementation, and motivating peers and leadership towards a comprehensive strategy and vision
• Ability to form partnerships with external and internal stakeholders to drive technology roadmap
• Ability to understand and communicate the behaviour of complex software systems by reading the code, exploring the data, and observing the metrics
• Ability to perform under pressure