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