Head of Engineering / CTO (Partner Company Role)

About this 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