# Head of Engineering / CTO
You'll own the company's full technical direction: architecture, reliability, delivery, infrastructure, and the people who make it happen.
## Key Responsibilities
- Define and drive architectural strategy, introducing clear engineering governance (RFCs, tech radar, vendor evaluation, and practical risk management)
- 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
- 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
- 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
## Requirements
- 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 at production scale
- 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
- 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
- Understanding of how engineering decisions affect revenue, risk, and customer trust
- English language skills at B2 level and fluent Russian language
## What We Offer
- Remote work
- 20 days vacation, bank holidays, sick leaves, additional birthday day off
- Compensation corresponding to competence and knowledge with yearly performance reviews
- Career growth opportunities in a young, ambitious fintech company