Chief Technology Officer (Cape Town)

CyberPro Consulting Ltd; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 600 000 - 750 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology consulting firm in Cape Town is looking for a Chief Technology Officer to lead their transition to an AI-first architecture and drive innovation. This strategic role requires a blend of technical expertise and business acumen to shape the company's tech vision and culture. With a competitive salary range of R120,000 to R170,000 gross per month, this position offers a unique chance to make a significant impact in a fast-paced e-commerce environment.

Benefits

Dynamic work environment

Staff discounts

Qualifications

• 10+ years of technical experience, with 5+ at senior leadership level.
• Proven track record scaling high-traffic e-commerce or tech platforms.
• Comfortable operating across board-level strategy and hands-on technical leadership.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the long-term technical strategy and system architecture.
• Lead front-end, back-end, and data platform direction using modern stacks and tools.
• Drive innovation across AI personalisation, big data platforms, and customer experience.

Skills

Architectural knowledge across modern cloud platforms

Deep understanding of large-scale e-commerce platforms

Hands-on coding ability in modern frameworks

Business-minded: cost-to-scale, margin impact

Inspirational leader

Education

BSc/MSc in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

React

PHP

AWS

PowerBI

Job description

Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Location: Cape Town HQ (in-office) Reports to: CEO / Executive Team

About the Role

We’re at a pivotal moment. After years of strong growth, our business is ready to scale into its next chapter. We’re seeking a visionary Chief Technology Officer to assess our legacy systems, lead the transition to a modern, AI-first architecture, and build the tools, structures, and teams that power innovation.

This is a strategic, hands‑on leadership role for someone who thrives at the intersection of technology and business. You’ll shape the tech vision, drive speed, resilience, and growth, and play a key role across the entire organisation. This isn’t just about keeping systems running—it’s about reimagining what comes next.

We have a strong development team and a uniquely South African platform, but the market is evolving rapidly. To stay ahead, we need a CTO who can drive transformation, innovation, and scale. Preferably from within the E‑Commerce environment, but not essential; it’s a massive nice to have.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and own the long‑term technical strategy and system architecture.
• Rebuild or replatform legacy systems into scalable, modular, API‑first architectures.
• Lead front‑end, back‑end, and data platform direction using modern stacks and tools.
• Collaborate with directors and potentially serve as a technology advisor at board level.
• Mentor the Head of Development, establish development processes, engineering culture, and performance expectations.
• Drive innovation across AI personalisation, big data platforms, and customer experience.
• Make build vs buy vs partner decisions with commercial ROI in mind.

Who You Are

• A strategic thinker with deep technical expertise and commercial acumen.
• Comfortable operating across board‑level strategy and hands‑on technical leadership.
• Driven by innovation, optimisation, and measurable business impact.
• Adept at building and mentoring high‑performing, multidisciplinary teams.
• Excited by scale, complexity, and transformation in a fast‑moving e‑commerce environment.
• You think like a founder, code like a craftsman, and build like a systems engineer. You thrive under pressure, can switch from whiteboarding a 5‑year roadmap to debugging production issues, and love driving innovation, speed, and reliability through technology.

What Success Looks Like

• Secure, scalable systems with 99.95% uptime.
• Rapid feature delivery and innovation.
• Real‑time insights across business units.
• Alignment between tech roadmap and business strategy.
• High‑performance engineering culture focused on speed, learning, and excellence.

Key Skills & Experience

• Architectural knowledge across modern cloud platforms, microservices, containerisation, and event‑driven systems.
• Deep understanding of large‑scale e‑commerce platforms (multi‑tenant, multi‑country, high concurrency).
• Proven ability to lead cross‑functional initiatives with product, marketing, finance, and operations.
• Hands‑on coding ability in modern frameworks.
• Business‑minded: cost‑to‑scale, margin impact, data ROI.
• Inspirational leader, respected by senior developers and teams.

Requirements

• BSc/MSc in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 10+ years of technical experience, 5+ at senior leadership level.
• Proven track record scaling high‑traffic e‑commerce or tech platforms.
• South African market knowledge preferred but not essential.

Core Competencies

Technical:

• Front‑End: React, ReactNative
• Back‑End: PHP, Laravel, NextJS, NodeJS
• Infrastructure: AWS, GCP, Azure
• Architecture: MySQL, Redis, CloudFlare
• DevOps: Azure DevOps, BitBucket, GitHub, CI/CD pipelines

Data & Reporting:

• BigQuery, Snowflake, MySQL
• BI tools: PowerBI, Tableau
• Analytics: GA4, Firebase

Leadership & Strategy:

• Leading engineering, DevOps, and data teams
• Aligning technology to commercial OKRs
• Board-level communication and planning
• Platform innovation and AI integration

Benefits

Get the chance to be part of a dynamic fast growing company where no two days are the same—literally. My Client is South Africa’s original daily deals site. Started with a small handful of employees and no offices to three offices and over 300 employees.

You now get to make real impact in where the business is going and determine their strategic direction allowing them to scale up, expand and grow even further.

You get to be part of a team where your idea is potentially our next best‑selling deal. Also, the staff discounts are great.

Salary R120 000.00 - R170 000.00 GROSS Per Month, no benefits.