Security and reliability

• Make security a core part of architecture and product development.
• Strengthen access management, data protection, infrastructure security, logging, monitoring, and auditability.
• Establish clear incident management, escalation, post-incident review, disaster recovery, and business continuity processes.
• Work closely with Product, Operations, and Compliance in a regulated fintech environment.

Build an AI-native engineering function

• Integrate AI into technical design, coding, code review, testing, documentation, debugging, and incident analysis.
• Automate repetitive engineering and QA workflows.
• Create practical standards for safe and effective AI-assisted development.
• Measure the impact of AI on delivery speed, product quality, defects, and engineering efficiency.

Lead and develop the team

• Set a high technical bar and improve ownership and decision-making across engineering.
• Help developers and QA engineers grow through mentoring, feedback, and strong technical leadership.
• Work closely with Product to turn business priorities into scalable technical solutions.
• Identify capability gaps and help hire strong engineers as the company grows.

What we are looking for

• 10+ years of strong hands-on experience in software architecture and technical leadership.
• Experience building or scaling fintech, payments, banking, payroll, or another transactional product.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, external integrations, infrastructure, security, and reliability.
• Strong ability to perform deep code reviews, challenge architectural decisions, and solve complex production issues.
• Experience working with sensitive financial and personal data.
• Strong knowledge of testing, observability, incident management, and software quality.
• Experience leading and developing engineering teams.
• Practical experience using AI across the software development lifecycle, beyond basic code generation.
• Strong product thinking and the ability to connect technical decisions with business outcomes.
• Ability to introduce structure while keeping the organization fast and pragmatic.

This role is not suitable for a management-only CTO. You should be comfortable going deep into architecture, code, infrastructure, security, and complex production issues.

Why join Kleos

• Own the architecture of a growing global fintech-HRtech product.
• Solve complex challenges across payments, payroll, compliance, and financial infrastructure.
• Have a direct impact on product strategy and company growth.
• Strengthen and shape an established engineering function.
• Build practical AI-native engineering processes with measurable results.
• Combine deep technical work with real business impact.