Head of Development | Software Development.

We are a rapidly growing payment technology company delivering cutting-edge solutions to global partners. To support our expansion and strengthen client relationships, we are seeking a Head of Development who will strategically lead the entire engineering organization, overseeing multiple product lines, development teams, and team leaders. This role combines high-level technical leadership, strategic planning, and team scaling with the ability to influence product and business outcomes.

The ideal candidate comes from a payments or white-label payment platform background, has deep hands-on expertise in Java and Oracle, and a proven record of building, structuring, and scaling engineering teams in complex, high-volume environments.
 

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and support all team leaders and engineers across backend, frontend, and integration areas.
• Actively participate in the hiring process, helping identify, assess, and onboard top technical talent.
• Build, structure, and scale high-performance development teams, fostering collaboration and technical excellence.
• Establish and oversee company-wide engineering processes, standards and development guidelines across all tech teams to increase velocity.
• Ensure cross-team alignment on architecture, code quality, security, and non-functional requirements.
• Collaborate with Product, DevOps, and PMO teams to ensure technical delivery meets business and quality targets.
• Align and coordinate QA specialists across all teams, ensuring consistent testing approaches, shared methodologies, and unified quality metrics.
• Support the CTO in long-term technical strategy, scalability initiatives, and architectural consistency.
• Act as the primary escalation point for complex cross-product engineering issues requiring architectural or operational oversight.
• Champion a culture of ownership, innovation, and continuous improvement across all teams.

• 5+ years of hands-on software development experience in the payments industry or white-label payment platforms.
• Proven track record of building and leading high-performing engineering teams (30+ engineers) in fintech or SaaS environments.
• Strong technical background with significant hands-on experience in Java ecosystem and Oracle/DB in high-volume transactional systems.
• Experience managing multi-team engineering organizations with mixed technology stacks.
• Demonstrated experience in technical hiring, team structuring, and talent development.
• Deep understanding of payment flows, transaction processing, orchestration layers, and API integrations.
• Solid experience in optimizing engineering processes, CI/CD pipelines, and quality assurance frameworks.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Fluent in Russian and English (mandatory for daily internal and external communication).

• Experience with AWS or other large-scale cloud environments.
• Knowledge of PCI DSS and other payment-related compliance and security standards.
• Hands-on experience implementing and promoting AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, CodeWhisperer) to improve team efficiency and code quality.