Fractional CTO

About Forward

Forward is a consulting firm that works exclusively with independent consultants to help startups build their engineering organizations.

About the Work

Company Stage: Seed

Keywords: Shopify, React, Mobile

Term: 2 weeks, with possibility of extension to 3-6 months

Hours per week: 10

Budget: $175-$200/hour

Timeline: Immediate

Timezone Constraints: 5 hours overlap with ET

Geographic Constraints: U.S./Canada based folks strongly preferred

Context:

We’re working with a company that just raised a ~$6M round and has the same business model as peloton but in the pilates space. They have an ecommerce site built on shopify that faciliates purchases of their ~$3,000 device and then a react native app that runs on the device itself on a tablet. They’re looking for someone who can come in and help them evaluate their current technical infrastructure and understand whether any gaps exist within their existing team.

About You

Roughly in order of importance:

  • You have mobile experience
  • You have react experience
  • You have experience building teams at early stage startups
  • You have shopify experience
  • You have 10+ years experience

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