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Head of Engineering / CTO (Partner Company Role)

London
Posted about 20 hours ago
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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

  • 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.

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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.

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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.

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