Head of Engineering / CTO - Payments & Data Infrastructure
New
CanadaFull-TimeExecutive
Salary not disclosed
Apply NowOpens the employer's application page
Job Details
- Languages
- English, Russian
- Required Skills
- PythonGoCI/CDDevOpsMicroservicesDistributed Systems
Requirements
- Proven experience as CTO, Head of Engineering, or Principal Architect in a high-scale SaaS, fintech, or infrastructure-driven organization
- Strong expertise in distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven architectures operating at production scale
- Hands-on engineering background with strong proficiency in Go and Python
- Deep understanding of DevOps, CI/CD, SRE principles, and large-scale incident management
- Demonstrated success in improving system reliability, uptime, deployment frequency, MTTR, MTTD, and infrastructure efficiency
- Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure, system design, security principles, and scalable architecture patterns
- Familiarity with PCI DSS compliance and secure financial system design
- Proven leadership in hiring, mentoring, and scaling high-performing engineering teams
- Experience in vendor selection, negotiation, and technology evaluation
- Strong business acumen with ability to connect engineering decisions to revenue, risk, and customer trust
- English proficiency at B2 level and fluent Russian language skills
Responsibilities
- Define and lead the overall engineering and architecture strategy, ensuring scalability, resilience, and long-term technical vision for the platform
- Oversee design and evolution of a high-load, event-driven distributed system with strong focus on reliability and fault isolation
- Establish engineering governance frameworks including RFCs, tech standards, vendor evaluation, and pragmatic risk management practices
- Own reliability engineering, including observability, incident response, SRE practices, postmortems, and continuous system improvement
- Lead engineering organization development, including hiring, mentoring, and performance management of engineers and tech leads
- Drive DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure optimization, cost efficiency, cybersecurity, and disaster recovery strategies
- Partner with executive stakeholders to align technical priorities with business goals, product direction, and revenue impact
- Champion automation, AI adoption, and continuous engineering process improvements across teams
- Define API strategies, integration standards, and system-wide engineering best practices
View Full Description & ApplyYou'll be redirected to the employer's site
