Head of Engineering / CTO (Partner Company Role)

FYST; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 150.000 - 200.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Remote work

20 days vacation + holidays

Zusammenfassung

FYST is building a cutting-edge payments infrastructure and data platform. We seek a CTO/Head of Engineering who will own the technical direction, runtime excellence, and governance, guiding a high-load, event-driven stack.

You will mentor tech leads, shape security posture, and partner with executives to align engineering with business goals. You will bring hands-on experience in distributed systems, Go and Python, and a deep commitment to reliability, incident response, and cost-efficient

Qualifikationen

• Senior-level technical leadership with a track record as CTO/Head of Engineering or Principal Architect.
• Expertise in distributed systems, event-driven architectures, microservices, and scalability.
• Hands-on coding background in Go and Python.
• Strong DevOps, CI/CD, SRE practices and incident management experience.
• Understanding of PCI DSS and secure system design.

Aufgaben

• Define and own the company's technical direction, architecture, and governance.
• Lead high-load platform scalability, reliability, and fault isolation.
• Oversee hiring, performance management, and development of tech leads.
• Manage security, disaster recovery, and business continuity with DevOps alignment.
• Drive automation, AI integration, and engineering process optimization.
• Design APIs and establish coding, architectural, and infrastructure standards.

Kenntnisse

CTO experience

Go

Python

Distributed systems

SRE

Leadership

Ausbildung

Bachelor's in CS/Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS

CI/CD

Jobbeschreibung

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

• 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.