About OneDayOnlyOneDayOnly.co.za is a fast-paced, high-volume e-commerce business at the forefront of daily deals and flash sales in South Africa. We delight millions of customers with compelling offers, and we are now entering an era of scaled innovation. This role is critical to unlocking the next wave of customer experience, data sophistication, and platform growth.CTO VisionAfter 15 years of strong growth, we are at a pivotal moment. Our business was built on grit, sharp execution, and home grown systems, but the next chapter demands more. As our roadmap grows more complex and our ambitions more bold, we are looking for a CTO who can help us scale into the future. We need a system strategist who can assess our legacy tech, lead us toward a modern AI first architecture, and build the structures, tools, and teams that power innovation. A leader who thrives at the intersection of code and commerce, who can drive speed, resilience, and growth, and who plays a strategic role across the entire business not just tech.We have built something special a uniquely South African platform that created its own market for deal based savings. We have a fantastic development team who continue to achieve great things. But the space is shifting. New players are entering with agility, playfulness, and scale. To stay ahead, we need to evolve faster, think bolder, and lead smarter. This role is not only about keeping things running it is about reimagining what comes next.Who you areWe are seeking a visionary hands on CTO who will architect our future. This is not a maintenance role; this is for someone who thinks like a founder, codes like a craftsman, and builds like a systems engineer. Your job is to define and deliver a technology strategy that sets our e commerce business up for a decade of scale, speed, and intelligence. You are a builder, strategist, and coach. You think in systems. You thrive under pressure and are as comfortable debugging an issue as you are whiteboarding the next 12 60 month tech roadmap. You are ready to make a measurable impact and love driving innovation speed and reliability through technology.We are seeking a strategic thinker with deep technical expertise and strong commercial acumen. A strategic thinker with deep technical expertise and strong commercial acumen.Comfortable operating across board level strategy and hands-on technical leadership.Driven by innovation, optimisation, and creating 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.ResponsibilitiesDefine 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 with modern stacks and tooling.Partner with the Directors and potentially serve on the board as a technology advisor and visionary.Mentor the Head of Development and establish clear development processes, engineering culture, and performance expectations.Drive innovation from AI personalisation to big data platforms to serve customer experience and business insights.Make build vs buy vs partner decisions with commercial ROI in mind.What Youll DoTechnology and Platform StrategyDefine and execute a modern, AI first technical strategy that scales with growth and enhances the customer experience.Assess and re architect systems for modular, API first scalability while managing risk and technical debt.Lead front end, back end, data, and DevOps teams ensuring performance, security, and rapid iteration.Customer and Commerce ExperienceSet the strategic direction for all user facing systems, ensuring a fast, beautiful, and consistent UI across mobile and desktop.Drive UX UI initiatives and align with product and design teams.Implement features like intelligent search, recommendation engines, and personalisation.Champion a culture of experimentation (A B testing, conversion funnel optimisation).Infrastructure, Security and ScalabilityArchitect scalable, secure back end services for high transaction volumes.Oversee all cloud, server, and deployment strategies for performance and reliability.Lead DevOps best practices to enable rapid deployment and rollback.Integrate robust fintech and third party systems including ERP, WMS, CRM, and payment platforms.Data and AIDefine the companys data strategy from pipelines to dashboards to real time insights.Guide predictive modelling, AI driven personalisation, and forecasting initiatives.Empower all teams with self serve analytics and foster data literacy organisation wide.Core Competencies and SkillsKey SKillsArchitectural 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.Demonstrated ability to lead cross functional initiatives with product, marketing, finance and ops.Hands on coding ability still writes and reviews code in modern frameworks.Business minded Thinks in cost to scale, margin impact, data ROI.Inspires technical teams, earns the respect of senior developers.Technical SkillsFront End React ReactNativeBack End PHP Laravel Next JS NodeJSInfrastructure AWS GCP AzureArchitecture MySQL Redis CloudFlareDevOps Azure Devops BitBucket GitHub CI PipelinesData and ReportingBigQuery Snowflake MySQLBI tools PowerBI TableauAnalytics tools GA4 FirebaseLeadership and StrategyProven leadership of technical teams engineering DevOps dataStrategic alignment of tech to commercial OKRsBoard level communication and planningDeep experience in platform innovation and AI integrationRequirementsBSc/MSc in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field10+ years of technical experience, with 5+ years at senior leadership levelProven track record scaling high traffic e commerce or tech platformsKnowledge of the South African market is preferred but not essentialWhat Success Looks LikeSecure, scalable systems with 99.95 uptime and rapid feature deliveryReal-time, actionable insights across business unitsClear alignment between tech roadmaps and company strategyA high performance engineering culture built on speed, learning, and excellence
