Head of Engineering / CTO (Partner Company Role)

We're building a company at the intersection of payments infrastructure and data products — combining transaction execution with structured financial data that is enriched, explainable, and ready for both operational and AI-driven workflows.

What You'll Be Working On

You'll own the company's full technical direction: architecture, reliability, delivery, infrastructure, and the people who make it happen
Define and drive architectural strategy, introducing clear engineering governance — RFCs, tech radar, vendor evaluation, and practical risk management — without unnecessary bureaucracy
Lead the evolution of a high-load, event-driven platform with a focus on scalability, resilience, and fault isolation
Own reliability and incident management: observability, SRE practices, incident response, and postmortem culture — with a goal of better uptime, faster detection, and fewer repeated issues
Oversee engineering hiring, performance, and development of tech leads; build a culture of end-to-end ownership and accountability
Manage cybersecurity protocols, disaster recovery, and business continuity in collaboration with DevOps
Drive infrastructure efficiency, cost control, and continuous performance improvement through centralized observability and clear ownership
Act as a bridge between engineering teams and executive stakeholders, ensuring technical decisions align with business goals
Champion automation, AI integration, and engineering process optimization
Design APIs and integration strategies; establish coding, architectural, and infrastructure standards

What You Need To Succeed

Proven experience as a CTO, Head of Engineering, or Principal Architect in a high-load SaaS, fintech, or infrastructure company
Deep expertise in distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and microservices — including how they behave at scale in production
Strong hands-on development background, especially in Go and Python
Track record of improving reliability, delivery speed, and infrastructure efficiency (uptime, MTTR, MTTD, release cadence, cloud cost)
Solid understanding of DevOps, CI/CD, SRE, and incident management at scale
Comprehensive technical background across architecture, cloud platforms, security, and distributed systems, with a focus on scalability, reliability, and strategic technology leadership
Familiar with PCI DSS compliance and secure system design
Skilled at hiring and mentoring strong engineers and tech leads
Comfortable with vendor evaluation, negotiation, and tooling decisions
You understand how engineering decisions affect revenue, risk, and customer trust
English language skills at the B2 level and fluent russian language.

What We Offer

An opportunity to make something great even greater, you can be the reason why we grow, develop, and become the best fintech company on the market!
Career prospects - we are young, we have huge ambitions, and it is important that our employees grow with us
Work with coworkers who are passionate about their business
Compensation that will fully correspond to the competence and knowledge, with yearly performance reviews
Remote work
20 days of vacation time; bank holidays; sick leaves; additional birthday day off

Head of Engineering / CTO (Partner Company Role)

Key Skills

Related Jobs

AI Engineer

Full-stack Growth Engineer (AI-native) | Kaunas

Full-stack Growth Engineer (AI-native)

Related Jobs

AI Engineer

Full-stack Growth Engineer (AI-native) | Kaunas

Full-stack Growth Engineer (AI-native)

Cookie Settings