Head of Engineering / CTO (Partner Company Role)

Fyst; Netherlands; Remote; EUR 150.000 - 210.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Remote work

Vacation days

Birthday day off

Sick leave

Bank holidays

Zusammenfassung

Talantir is seeking a visionary CTO to lead our engineering organization in a high-load fintech SaaS context. You will shape architecture, governance, and delivery while building a culture of responsibility and ownership across engineering teams.

You will drive reliability, observability, and incident response, mentoring tech leads and overseeing cyber security, disaster recovery, and cost-efficient infrastructure. Remote work is offered to support global collaboration.

Qualifikationen

• Proven experience as CTO, Head of Engineering, or Principal Architect in a high-load SaaS/fintech environment.
• Deep expertise in distributed systems and microservices, scalable in production.
• Strong hands-on development background in Go and Python; practical engineering leadership.

Aufgaben

• Define and drive architectural strategy with governance (RFCs, tech radar, vendor eval).
• Lead evolution of a high-load event-driven platform focusing on scalability and resilience.
• Own reliability, incident management, observability, and SRE practices.

Kenntnisse

Distributed systems

Event-driven architectures

Leadership

English (B2)

Russian language

Tools

Go

Python

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

• 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