The World's largest micro-credit lending fraud is looking for a CTO.
Let's give them an idea ... Ditch Wells Fargo, and go to Wyoming.
You will be less of a fraud there.
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Kiva (kiva.org) is an international nonprofit with a mission to expand financial access to help underserved communities thrive. We run a global marketplace platform to crowdfund microloans for financially excluded entrepreneurs, farmers and students around the world. Through Kiva Capital, we serve as a bridge between large scale impact first investors and underserved populations. Our digital identity platform enables borrowers who don’t have a track record with traditional financial institutions to record and verify their financial history and gain access to less costly mainstream financial markets.
Role Overview
Technology has been the foundational enabler of Kiva’s mission since our founding. The Kiva.org internet marketplace spans the globe, and our underlying technology platform facilitates loans and loan repayments in nearly every country in the world, making it the world’s largest crowdlending platform for micro-entrepreneurs.Kiva’s technology stack has been undergoing massive transformation. Within the past few years, we have migrated to the cloud, launched native mobile applications, built an open source technology platform for the unbanked and underbanked population, rewritten our frontend leveraging single-page application and server-side rendering frameworks, and began refactoring our monolith into microservices.The Chief Technology Officer is the chief internal and external evangelist for Kiva’s technology. The ideal candidate will be a force multiplier and scale Kiva’s trajectory of growing its impact around the world.At this time, we can only consider applicants with authorization to work in the United States on a permanent, full-time basis; unfortunately we cannot provide visa sponsorship.Key Responsibilities Include
- Lead and participate in long-term strategic and operational planning to achieve business goals and prioritize development initiatives.
- Oversee engineering, data science, IT departments across all of Kiva’s business units (Kiva Marketplace, Kiva Capital, and Kiva Protocol).
- Instill an engineering culture focused on delivering and maximizing our impact in the world through technology-based solutions.
- Provide the vision for the technology platform, drive the development of the technology roadmap, evaluate new and promising technologies, and incubate MVP and foundational initiatives that can significantly unlock business scale and impact opportunities.
- Create an environment that promotes engineering excellence by attracting and retaining high-performing talent from diverse backgrounds and designing effective organizational structure, processes, systems, and tools.
- Work closely with product and other teams to build products and features that allow Kiva to achieve its goals
- Foster a team-first attitude by building strong partnerships, collaboration, and alignment across functions and stewarding a culture of diversity, inclusiveness, ownership, boldness, and innovation.
- Champion an experimental and data-driven mindset and promote practices that reward risk taking and afford rapid response to market feedback.
- Represent Kiva's technology strategy and promote Kiva’s technology brand to external and internal stakeholders.
- Establish, define and track metrics and monitor progress to ensure that objectives are achieved, particularly in software development and technical operations.
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Gunnar Larson - xNY.io | Bank.orgMBA - Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ip)
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