CTO / Head of Engineering
- Role
- Engineering Management
- Experience
- C-Level
- Employment
- Full-time
- Company size
- Startup
Open to ES, PT, RS, AM, GE, GB only · Prefers Armenia, Spain, United Kingdom +3. Set where you work from to check your eligibility.
The listing prefers candidates in Armenia, Spain, United Kingdom, Georgia, Portugal, and Serbia.
No BS summary
CTO / Head of Engineering for a fintech payments infrastructure company. Needs strong .NET/C# engineering background, distributed systems architecture, regulated-industry experience, team hiring/leadership, and business-level English. Remote from Spain, Portugal, Serbia, Armenia, or Georgia preferred, with future relocation to London.
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CTO / Head of Engineering (FinTech)
Location: Remote (Spain, Portugal, Serbia, Armenia, Georgia preferred) → relocation to London in the future
Salary: €7,000–12,000/month + Equity
Type: Full-time
Kanzum is building the infrastructure for international business payments.
We help companies move money globally through local payment rails, virtual accounts, FX and treasury infrastructure. Our clients operate across Africa, MENA, Europe and Asia, and we are building financial infrastructure that removes friction from international commerce.
We're now entering the next stage of growth. To get there, we need to bring engineering fully in-house and build a world-class product organization.
This is an opportunity to rebuild engineering, own the technical vision, and become one of the key leaders shaping the company's future.
Technical Leadership
- Define and own the technical vision of the platform
- Lead architecture decisions across the entire system
- Improve scalability, reliability and maintainability
Engineering Organization
- Build and lead the internal engineering team
- Hire senior engineers through your own network and active recruiting
- Create a strong engineering culture focused on ownership and execution
Product Partnership
- Work closely with Founder and Product to prioritize initiatives
- Translate customer needs into technical solutions
- Balance speed with technical excellence
- Help shape product strategy through technical insight
Security & Infrastructure
- Improve platform security and operational resilience
- Drive implementation of engineering standards and secure development practices
- Own reliability, monitoring and incident response
- Help prepare the company for future compliance requirements (ISO 27001 and similar standards)
Delivery
- Build predictable engineering processes
- Introduce modern AI-assisted engineering workflows where they create measurable value
Must-have
- Strong software engineering background with hands-on experience in .NET / C#
- Experience building or significantly rebuilding complex software platforms
- Background in fintech, banking, payments or another highly regulated industry
- Experience designing scalable distributed systems
- Strong understanding of software architecture
- Experience hiring and leading engineering teams
- Excellent communication skills
- Business-level English
Strong advantages
- Experience with payment infrastructure, financial systems or cloud-native architectures
- Experience implementing ISO 27001 or similar security frameworks
- Experience building APIs used by external partners
- Experience scaling engineering organizations from startup to growth stage
- Experience working directly with enterprise customers
Who succeeds here
We're looking for someone who naturally combines engineering excellence with business thinking.
You don't just build software—you solve customer problems.
You enjoy ownership, making decisions with incomplete information, and creating structure where none exists.
What we offer
- High ownership from day one
- Opportunity to build engineering almost from scratch
- Equity package
- Remote-first environment
- Future relocation opportunity to London
- Ability to shape both technology and company culture
- Work on infrastructure used in global financial services
What you'll do
- Define and own the technical vision of the platform
- Lead architecture decisions across the entire system
- Improve scalability, reliability, and maintainability
- Build and lead the internal engineering team
- Hire senior engineers through personal network and active recruiting
- Create an engineering culture focused on ownership and execution
- Work with Founder and Product to prioritize initiatives
- Translate customer needs into technical solutions
- Shape product strategy through technical insight
- Improve platform security and operational resilience
- Drive engineering standards and secure development practices
- Own reliability, monitoring, and incident response
- Prepare the company for future compliance requirements
- Build predictable engineering processes
- Introduce AI-assisted engineering workflows where they create measurable value
What they require
- Strong software engineering background with hands-on experience in .NET / C#
- Experience building or significantly rebuilding complex software platforms
- Background in fintech, banking, payments, or another highly regulated industry
- Experience designing scalable distributed systems
- Strong understanding of software architecture
- Experience hiring and leading engineering teams
- Excellent communication skills
- Business-level English
Benefits
- High ownership from day one
- Opportunity to build engineering almost from scratch
- Equity package
- Remote-first environment
- Future relocation opportunity to London
- Ability to shape technology and company culture
- Work on infrastructure used in global financial services
Kanzum is building infrastructure for international business payments, helping companies move money globally through local payment rails, virtual accounts, FX, and treasury infrastructure.