CTO

About us:

• Fintech company based in London
• The company was founded in 2011
• Worldwide market

Team:

• 70 people, with a target of at least 2x growth
• Direct team: 5 Head of units (Development, QA, DevOps, TechSup, SysAdmin)
• Location: Kazan, Saint-Petersburg, and remote/distributed team

Position level: COO (Board Member) - 1

Responsibilities:

• Develop technical aspects of the company’s strategy to ensure alignment with its business goals.
• Lead and influence technology strategy and design in a fast-paced environment, provide technical leadership, encouraging accountability and innovation.
• Define the problem, vision, and solution for the business and cultural change required to drive technology transformation and introduce new processes and procedures to ensure technology change is achieved.
• Lead and manage a team of highly experienced technology professionals, incorporating our teams of Developers, Engineers, QA and TechSup.
• Identify the right skills, team structure and resources to grow the technology teams.
• Discover and implement new technologies that yield a competitive advantage and help other departments use technology profitably.
• Supervise system infrastructure to ensure functionality and efficiency.
• Monitor KPIs and IT budgets to assess technological performance.
• Use stakeholders’ feedback to inform necessary improvements and adjustments to technology.
• Guide the business on all Technology related matters, able to build cross-functional relationships with distributed technology teams.
• Establish governance over technology assets and investments to manage the levels of risk.

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience building technical software products; with at least 3 of those years as a manager of an engineering team.
• CTO or Senior Technology Leadership experience gained within a FinTech or banks (must)
• Experience in critically reviewing high-level business requirements combined with the ability to formulate and articulate technical strategy across the organization.
• A history of scaling tech teams and products with a passion for mentoring your direct reports in both technical achievement and career growth.
• Strong experience in leading teams in an agile environment.
• Have led a company through growth and/or worked in a scale-up that has overseen rapid growth.
• BSc/BA in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field; MBA or other relevant graduate degree is a plus
• Knowledge of foreign languages: English - С1, C2 (must)

We offer:

• The compensation package is not strictly limited. We are ready to discuss your expectations (fix + share)
• Remote or office in Spb. Relocation to London can be discussed later.
• Business trips to London