Head of Engineering

We are looking for an experienced and pragmatic Head of Engineering to lead and scale our engineering department, with a laser focus on delivery excellence, process efficiency, and engineering leadership. This is a mission-critical role that ensures stable, predictable, and fast delivery across three engineering teams building core parts of our crypto payment infrastructure.

This role is well fitted for those, who likes working in fast-paced environments, balances business and technical perspectives and builds high-accountability teams

Responsibilities:

Leadership & People Management

• Manage and develop Engineering Managers and Tech Leads, building a strong second line of leadership and identifying successors for your own role

• Provide structured performance feedback and career guidance (PDPs), aligning individual growth with team and business goals

• Promote a high-trust engineering culture focused on ownership and cross-functional collaboration

• Champion company values and ensure high engagement and clarity of direction across the engineering teams

Delivery Process Ownership

• Review existing and propose improvements in delivery processes that optimise time to market, minimise waste and improve flow efficiency (lead time, plan-fact, defect rate)

• Drive data-informed decision-making by implementing and using delivery metrics (velocity, WIP, incidents rate, stakeholder feedback)

• Ensure consistent execution of cross-team projects, manage delivery risk and enable effective escalation paths

• Follow and contribute to improve our operational rituals: quarterly planning, OKRs, retrospective feedback loops and delivery health reviews

Team Structuring & Resourcing

• Own organisational design of the department: team structures, headcount planning, growth forecasting

• Make decisions on hiring priorities, team composition, and when to split, merge, or sunset teams

• Manage capacity allocation and drive resource flexibility in a highly paced environment

Process & Platform Governance

• Lead the adoption of engineering standards, reliability targets, and quality metrics in collaboration with Tech Leads

• Ensure best practices in incident response, cost management and DevOps tooling are followed consistently across teams

• Promote knowledge sharing via tech sessions and hackathons to reduce silos and enable innovation

Stakeholder & Business Alignment

• Translate technical strategy into engineering execution plans, working closely with Product, Compliance, and Finance

• Provide regular visibility into delivery status, risks, and goals to stakeholders

• Participate in company-wide planning, contributing engineering perspective to product strategy and long-term roadmap

Requirements:

• 3+ years of proven experience in managing multiple engineering teams through Engineering Managers and Tech Leads

• Track record of improving delivery processes (Lean/Agile) based on metrics approach

• Understanding of organisational scaling, cross-team coordination, and metrics-driven leadership

• Experience setting up or improving secure SDLC processes

• Strong communicator with the ability to build alignment, influence up/down/across

• Experience defining and implementing delivery KPIs and using them to identify process bottlenecks and waste

• Ability to balance speed and quality in a high-stakes product environment (financial systems, crypto, payments)

• Good level of spoken and written English (at least B2) and Russian

Nice to have:

• Background indevelopment

• Experience mentoring Engineering Managers

• Experience in fintech or highly regulated environments

• Budgeting experience

• Hands-on experience creating dashboards or tracking frameworks for engineering org health

• Previous experience in crypto, payments, or financial automation platforms

• Understanding of security and platform reliability in crypto/fintech domains