Chief Technical Officer, Forest Admin
Universal data administration interface
Open for applications
Universal data administration interface
21-100 employees
Open for applications
21-100 employees
Company mission
To improve the efficiency of businesses of all sizes.
Role
Who you are
- Leadership: Proven experience (5+ years) leading and scaling engineering teams, ideally in a SaaS B2B series A/B startup environment
- Technical Expertise: Strong background in software development, architecture, and cloud technologies. Deep knowledge of modern development frameworks (Node.js in particular), languages, and tools (Git in particular)
- SaaS: Hands-on experience building and scaling SaaS platforms, understanding of multi-tenant architectures, subscription models, and integration with third-party APIs
- Product Lover: you live for well-designed UX and always focus on customer needs
- Startup Mindset: Thrives in a dynamic, hands-on, fast-paced environment. “Tomorrow” is not part of your vocabulary. You get sh*t done and hate procrastination!
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Experience working closely with product, design, and other business units to align technical efforts with business goals
- Execution Focused: Track record of delivering projects on time and within scope. Able to prioritize competing demands and balance short-term and long-term objectives
- Hiring & Mentorship: Experience in recruiting, hiring, and nurturing engineering talent, building high-performing teams, and fostering a positive team culture
- Scalability: Knowledge of scaling both systems and teams in a rapidly growing startup, with a focus on reliability, performance, and security
- English: Good command of our work language and strong communication skills
What the job involves
- We're looking for a strong VP of Engineering to lead our tech team in the race to uniquely position our product in the fast-growing internal tools market we pioneered in 2017
- You’ll play a pivotal role in shaping our technical strategy, ensuring scalability, and delivering a competitive product that delights our customers
- As a key leader in the company, you'll collaborate closely with the CEO, product, and design teams to set priorities, identify opportunities, and turn ideas into reality
- You’ll manage and mentor a talented group of engineers, fostering a culture of fast delivery, accountability, and continuous improvement
- Your hands-on approach will help us scale the platform while maintaining agility and product quality
- You’ll own the technical roadmap, balancing long-term architecture decisions with the immediate needs of a rapidly growing startup
- If you're someone who thrives in a high-impact role and loves the challenge of scaling engineering teams and technology, this is the opportunity for you!
- Leading and growing a talented engineering team, managing both people and processes
- Shaping and executing the company’s engineering vision and technical strategy
- Owning the technical roadmap, ensuring alignment with business goals
- Collaborating with product and design teams to deliver features on time and within scope
- Driving engineering excellence, from code quality to system architecture, security, and performance
- Ensuring high availability and reliability of the platform, minimizing downtime
- Recruiting top engineering talent and building an innovative, inclusive team culture
- Overseeing budgets and resource allocation to maximize team productivity and impact
- Interview with our CEO (30min)
- Interview with our CTO (60min)
- Technical deep dive with our CTO (60min)
- Leadership interviews with key tech team members (~2 hours)
- Interview with the Executive team (30min)
- Ref checks & offer communication
Our take
French-founded Forest Admin is an admin panel solution that integrates with its customer’s database and third-party services, such as Stripe and Google Analytics, in order to centralize all their data onto one internal tool.
Unlike some competitors, Forest Admin is focused on handling customer data in a sensitive and safe way. Despite being a SaaS company, it doesn’t pull users’ data from their servers, instead it asks them to install a plugin so that Forest Admin can communicate with their servers directly.
An initial round of Series A funding, led by Notion Capital and Runa Capital, was said to be invested into working with more APIs and integrating with more third-party SaaS tools, which was actualised with Laravel, NestJS and MariaDB.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Nov 2019
$7m
SERIES A
Jan 2018
$3.2m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $10.7m
Company HQ
Union Square, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Sandro Munda
(CEO)Previously served as a Software Engineer for eFounders, Tevizz, ComodIT, PCSol, EPIC Agency, Manex.
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