Head of Engineering / CTO (Partner Company Role)

<p>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.</p><p><b>What You'll Be Working On</b></p><ul><li>You'll own the company's full technical direction: architecture, reliability, delivery, infrastructure, and the people who make it happen.</li><li>Define and drive architectural strategy, introducing clear engineering governance — RFCs, tech radar, vendor evaluation, and practical risk management — without unnecessary bureaucracy.</li><li>Lead the evolution of a high-load, event-driven platform with a focus on scalability, resilience, and fault isolation.</li><li>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.</li><li>Oversee engineering hiring, performance, and development of tech leads; build a culture of end-to-end ownership and accountability.</li><li>Manage cybersecurity protocols, disaster recovery, and business continuity in collaboration with DevOps.</li><li>Drive infrastructure efficiency, cost control, and continuous performance improvement through centralized observability and clear ownership.</li><li>Act as a bridge between engineering teams and executive stakeholders, ensuring technical decisions align with business goals.</li><li>Champion automation, AI integration, and engineering process optimization.</li><li>Design APIs and integration strategies; establish coding, architectural, and infrastructure standards.</li></ul><p><b>What You Need to Succeed</b></p><ul><li>Proven experience as a CTO, Head of Engineering, or Principal Architect in a <b>high-load SaaS, fintech, or infrastructure company.</b></li><li>Deep expertise in distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and microservices — including how they behave at scale in production.</li><li>Strong hands-on development background, especially in <b>Go and Python</b></li><li>Track record of improving reliability, delivery speed, and <b>infrastructure efficiency</b> (uptime, MTTR, MTTD, release cadence, cloud cost).</li><li><b>Solid understanding of DevOps, CI/CD, SRE, and incident management at scale.</b></li><li>Comprehensive technical background across architecture, cloud platforms, security, and distributed systems, with a focus on scalability, reliability, and strategic technology leadership.</li><li>Familiar with PCI DSS compliance and secure system design.</li><li>Skilled at hiring and mentoring strong engineers and tech leads.</li><li>Comfortable with vendor evaluation, negotiation, and tooling decisions.</li><li>You understand how engineering decisions affect revenue, risk, and customer trust.</li><li>English language skills at the B2 level and fluent russian language. </li></ul><p><strong>What we offer </strong></p><ul><li>An opportunity to make something great even greater, you can be the reason why we grow, develop, and become <strong>the best fintech company on the market!</strong></li><li>Career prospects - we are young, we have huge ambitions, and it is important that our employees grow with us</li><li>Work with coworkers who are passionate about their business</li><li>Compensation that will fully correspond to the competence and knowledge, with yearly performance reviews</li><li>The opportunity to attend conferences, courses, and professional development at the company's expense - we favor the continuous development of our employees</li><li>Private health insurance coverage</li><li>Remote work</li><li>20 days of vacation time; bank holidays; sick leaves; additional birthday day off</li></ul>