Chief Technical Officer

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Jobs: Chief Technical Officer

Salary: 7k - 10k euro net, discussing  

Company, location: International Fintech Company, Cyprus 

Employment contract: remote (work from anywhere), fulltime 

Duties:

• Set objectives and strategies for the IT department;
• Select and implement suitable technology to streamline all internal operations and help optimize their strategic benefits;
• Plan the implementation of new systems and provide guidance to IT professionals and other staff within the organization;
• Oversee the technological infrastructure (networks and computer systems) in the organization to ensure optimal performance;
• Monitor changes or advancements in technology to discover ways the company can gain a competitive advantage;
• Analyze the costs, value and risks of information technology to advise management and suggest actions;
• Supervise the overall operational activities of the engineering team;
• Develop team culture by guiding, mentoring, and training all engineers;
• Allocate resources to effectively meet goals, identify team growth needs, or set growth plans;
• Work closely with the C-level and technical leaders to ensure tasks, deadlines, and goals are met;
• Demonstrate and inspire a strong sense of teamwork;
• Demonstrate and inspire integrity, quality, and professionalism;
• Manage engineering’s engagement, retention, and performance;
• Provide professional development, coaching, mentorship, and cultivate emerging leaders for the organization;
• Design processes and build tooling to support multiple products in diverse geographies;
• Engage in architectural discussions, determine tradeoffs, seek to reduce complexity, and drive the discussion towards decisions;
• As part of the leadership team, contribute to strategic decision making and resource allocation on the company level;
• Control and manage the IT budget.

We offer: 

• Remote working from any part of the world to your liking as long as your business hours fit the Cyprus time zone; 
• Excellent international career opportunities;
• LTI program (RSU or Stock option);
• Well-being & Mental Health support program;
• Full tech/equipment set-up, which is relevant to executing tasks;
• A high degree of autonomy, no micromanagement;
• Ownership culture.

Required:

• 5+ years of relevant experience as a CTO;
• Passionate about next-generation finance and blockchain technology;
• Deep understanding understand infrastructure, cryptography, infosec, distributed system, open-source communities, and blockchain governance;
• Deep technical background in open-source, cloud solutions with previous hands-on experience in software engineering and infrastructure within a high-performing technology organization (e.g., Software engineering, Data Science/Analytics, DevOps/DevSecOps);
• Outstanding executive-level verbal and written communication skills;
• Solid analytical and problem-solving skills, with the interpersonal capability to ensure they are implemented;
• Comfort working in high growth, constantly changing environment;
• Experience with diverse technology applications and associated architectures;
• Proactive, strong product/entrepreneurial mindset and previous experience working with cross-functional, product-focused teams;
• Demonstrated experience of attracting, hiring, enabling, and developing stellar talent;
• Excellent collaborative manager of managers, with the ability to mentor and grow senior engineers and engineering managers;
• Previous experience managing change as well as shaping organizational design, incentivization, and communication structures across multiple teams;
• Strong process- and systems thinker with the ability to find transdisciplinary solutions to open-ended business and tech problems by going to a technical first principal level and challenging hidden assumptions;
• An opinion on how things are done correctly and an extremely high frame of reference for yourself and the teams you lead;
• Understanding of cloud-computing and architecture, high-performance computing is strongly preferred;
• Knowledge of the latest technological and regulatory trends in providing IT infrastructure to businesses; financial capital markets experience is strongly preferred;
• Fluency in English.

Interested? Please apply CV (Eng) in telegram @vgrebenyuk