CTO (Europe)

About us:

• International fintech company based in London
• The company was founded in 2011
• Worldwide market

Engineering team:

• 70 people, with a target of at least 2x growth
• Distributed team + 2 offices in Russia (Kazan, Saint-Petersburg)
• In direct charge of 5 Head of units (Development, QA, DevOps, TechSuppport, SysAdmin)
• Position level: COO (Board Member) - 1

Responsibilities:

• Developing technical aspects of the company’s strategy to ensure alignment with its business goals
• Leading and influencing technology strategy and design in a fast-paced environment, providing technical leadership, encouraging accountability and innovation.
• Defining the problem, vision, and solution for the business and cultural change required to drive technology transformation and introducing new processes and procedures to ensure technology change is achieved
• Leading and managing a team of highly experienced technology professionals, incorporating our teams of Developers, Engineers, QA and TechSupport.
• Identifying the right skills, team structure, and resources to grow the technology teams
• Discovering and implementing new technologies that yield competitive advantage and helping other departments use technology profitably
• Supervising system infrastructure to ensure functionality and efficiency
• Monitoring KPIs and IT budgets to assess technological performance
• Using stakeholders’ feedback to inform necessary improvements and adjustments to technology
• Guiding the business on all technology-related matters, building cross-functional relationships with distributed technology teams
• Establishing 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 as a manager of an engineering team
• CTO or Senior Technology Leadership experience gained within both - FinTech/banks and foreign corporations (must be)
• 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 the passion for mentoring your direct reports in both technical achievement and career growth.
• Strong experience in leading teams in an agile environment
• Having 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 languages: English - С1, C2 (must), Russian - Native Speaker
• Location of the candidate: any EU country (remote work, further relocation to the UK is possible)

We offer:

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