About the 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
Originally posted on Himalayas