Social Discovery Group
1001 - 5000 employees
Founded 20 years
🌍 Social Impact
📱 Media
Social Impact • Media • Entertainment
Social Discovery Group is the world's largest group of social discovery companies, focused on solving the problems of loneliness, isolation, and disconnection through digital reality. With 500 million users across 150 countries, the group boasts over 60 global communication and entertainment platforms. Employing a team of 1200 professionals, the company organizes events that unite a global community of professionals and provides career opportunities for individuals seeking ambitious challenges.
Deputy CTO, AI Product
🔥 7 minutes ago
📊 Check your resume score for this job
Improve your chances of getting an interview by checking your resume score before you apply.
Social Discovery Group
1001 - 5000 employees
Founded 20 years
🌍 Social Impact
📱 Media
Social Impact • Media • Entertainment
Social Discovery Group is the world's largest group of social discovery companies, focused on solving the problems of loneliness, isolation, and disconnection through digital reality. With 500 million users across 150 countries, the group boasts over 60 global communication and entertainment platforms. Employing a team of 1200 professionals, the company organizes events that unite a global community of professionals and provides career opportunities for individuals seeking ambitious challenges.
📋 Description
• Act as the CTO's second-in-command across backend and ML teams, able to represent technical leadership in the CTO's absence • Own architecture and technical decision-making for products and features end-to-end • Stay hands-on — dive into the code and ship features yourself, prototype functionality when needed • Translate business problems into technical solutions: take a small team (5–10 people) and a business need, and drive it to a working result • Lead people: hiring, offboarding, compensation and resourcing decisions, team syncs • Own cross-team alignment and synchronization with peers at CTO / CDO level • Manage infrastructure, architecture, and the operational/administrative side without treating it as beneath you • Drive execution in an environment where priorities shift constantly
🎯 Requirements
• Strong backend engineering background — you think in architecture and can build systems in your head (C# / Python preferred; strong Java or other backend experience also welcome) • Genuinely hands-on: still writing code and able to deliver a feature yourself • Solid business understanding and the ability to connect technical and business goals • Real people-management experience (hiring, team leadership, resourcing) • Comfortable across the full spread: architecture, delivery, infrastructure, and operational work • A startup mindset — you operate in a small, flat team and lead by example • Curiosity that hasn't faded — even after years in the industry, you still want to try new things • Clear, structured thinking and communication: you answer the question you're actually asked, and when you're uncertain, you can articulate exactly what you're uncertain about • Senior-level experience (8+ years), including hands-on development and a technical leadership / management role
🏖️ Benefits
• REMOTE OPPORTUNITY to work full-time • Vacation 28 calendar days per year • 7 wellness days per year (time off) that can be used to deal with household issues, to lie down and recover without taking sick leave • Bonuses up to $5000 for recommending successful applicants for positions in the company • 50% payment for professional training, international conferences, and meetings • Corporate discount for English lessons • Health benefits. According to the paychecks, if you are not eligible for corporate medical insurance, the company will compensate you with up to $ 1,000 gross per year per employee. This can be spent on self-purchase of health insurance or on doctor’s fees for yourself and close relatives (spouse, children) • Workplace organization. The company provides all employees with an equipped workplace and all the necessary equipment (table, armchair, wifi, etc.) in our offices or co-working locations. • In the other locations, the company provides reimbursement of workplace costs up to $ 1000 gross once every 3 years, according to the paychecks. This money can be spent on the rent of the co-working room, on equipping the working place at home (desk, chair, Internet, etc.) during those 3 years • Internal gamified gratitude system: receive bonuses from colleagues and exchange them for our merchandise, team building activities, massage certificates, etc.
Apply Now
