How many career-defining roles have you seen in the last few weeks? Not many, I bet.

What about roles with a clear pathway to CTO in two to three years while building a startup that will transform the future of air cargo?

‘But 60% of startups fail in the first three years, right?’

Yes, but this startup is fully funded, already has two massive clients, and many more are queuing up. 

They have big goals, such as a second product, many more clients, and breaking into the US or Canadian market in 2025. They’ve identified multiple routes to make money, so the typical startup risks shouldn’t be a problem.

It also has no competition in a £10 billion market that traditionally uses email, text, spreadsheets and carrier pigeons to do business, which means you’re free to innovate and shape the future of managing air cargo.

Like Uber, Netflix and Amazon, who didn’t just create products, they reimagined whole industries.

When we order a product online and get a delivery date, we don’t think about it again unless it’s late!

We don’t realise how vital logistics is and how global events like wars, port strikes, and pandemics can affect it. 

Cargo charters deliver relief in extreme conditions, natural disasters, or aid relief where normal modes of transport can’t reach in time. Without transparency and real-time data, it’s difficult for all parties to make informed decisions quickly, which can sometimes be the difference between life and death.

You’d join as the technical lead at their London hub, working closely with the product team to become the ‘brain’ of the operation, with smaller teams in other time zones.

You’ll spend 20% of your time managing and mentoring the team while the interim CTO will coach and support you to prepare you for the CTO role in 18 months to three years.

40% will be R&D, where you research and devise solutions to problems and decide what to build. This includes examining how data is collected and used, integrating AI and machine learning into the products, adding layers of depth to the data, and prototyping and experimenting.

The rest of your time will be spent hands-on coding and helping build an enterprise-level approach to IT security and compliance. (Bonus points if you have experience in this area)

• Headline Benefits – 35 contracted hours, 35 days holiday (Inc public holidays), discretionary bonus, £1,000 annual personal development budget, regular European meetups.
• Work Location – Hybrid – 2-3 days a week in the London office.

You are a senior or lead full-stack React developer with some management experience and the ambition to get to CTO level.

You have worked in a startup, understand the challenges and want to climb the mountain.

You’ll have experience with AWS services; they use Amplify (AppSync and DataStore), Cognito, DynamoDB, and Lambda, so bonus points if you have experience with any of those, particularly Amplify.

Full Stack

• Core Technologies: TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js
• Front-End Libraries and Frameworks: mui/material, Emotion
• Product & UX: Figma
• State Management: DataStore, GQL, Redux
• Testing and Linting: ESLint, Prettier
• Dev Tools and Build Tools: Amplify CLI, npm, nx
• Version Control: Git
• Back-End and Authentication: AWS (Amplify (AppSync and DataStore), Cognito, DynamoDB, Lambda)
• Security: Soc-2