CTO at Pay Global Payment Service
Pay Global payment service is looking for a CTO to take over the company's technological platform at the scaling stage. This is a strategic role reporting directly to the CEO: you will be responsible for the architecture, reliability, and development of the payment infrastructure, and simultaneously grow the development team in Moscow.
Pay Global is a fintech solution that allows instant issuance of virtual cards for paying for foreign services and purchases abroad. Users can pay for subscriptions, make online purchases, travel, and manage their finances without restrictions.
Responsibilities:
- Formulate the company's technical strategy and platform architectural principles, considering the growth of load, transaction volume, and geography.
- Be responsible for the reliability, availability, and performance of the payment platform — SLA, 24/7 uptime, recovery time after incidents.
- Make decisions on the technology stack, infrastructure, and providers; oversee integrations with payment systems, partner banks, and external services.
- Balance the speed of feature releases with system stability, consciously manage technical debt.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements (Central Bank of the Russian Federation), payment card data protection standards (PCI DSS), and personal data legislation; build anti-fraud and cybersecurity systems.
- Grow the development team: organizational structure, grading, hiring, engineer development. Delegate operational management to team leads, retaining architectural and strategic decisions.
- Implement and maintain development processes (code review, CI/CD, testing, monitoring) that improve the predictability and quality of releases.
- Work closely with the CDO and CPO on the roadmap, assessment of technical feasibility, and priorities.
- Support the launch of the company's AI initiatives (from support bots to back-office automation) in terms of infrastructure and product integration.
Candidate Expectations:
- 5+ years in the role of CTO / Head of Engineering / VP Engineering in a fintech company.
- Experience in scaling a development team (staff growth x2–x3) and infrastructure to accommodate load growth.
- Experience with high-load transactional systems (payments, banking, e-commerce).
- Architectural expertise in distributed systems and microservices.
- Practical experience in building fault-tolerant infrastructure.
- Understanding of payment system security principles.
- Experience in building development processes from scratch or significantly transforming them.
- English language proficiency at C1+ level for free communication with international partners.
- Ability to articulate your position, think strategically, and work under uncertainty.
Will be a plus:
- Experience working in a regulated environment (banking/payment compliance, PCI DSS).
- Experience implementing AI/ML solutions into a product.
- Experience presenting technical strategy to investors / board of directors.
The company offers:
- Modern office in the center of Moscow.
- Flexible start to the workday.
- Apple equipment and access to AI tools.
- Voluntary medical insurance with dental coverage after the probationary period.
- Budget for training, conferences, and expertise development.
- Corporate English lessons
