Chief Technical Officer
Remote - European Region
Management /
Full-time /
Hybrid
CoinsPaid offers ready-to-use crypto payment solutions tailored to business’ every need. Standing at the forefront of mass adoption, our products help businesses gear up for the new era of digital assets. We showed a tremendous growth in terms of transactions and volumes since 2019 and in 2023 were marked by Forbes as the "Best Crypto Payment Gateway for High-Volume Transactions".
Headquartered in Estonia and having 3 international hubs, we are still a remote-first company with employees working from 30+ countries around the world. At CoinsPaid, we are passionate about crypto, fintech and are putting great effort into building a team that will get the world ready for every-day crypto use. If these feel close to you - give us a shout!
Coinspaid’s Engineering Team builds and scales an ecosystem of multiple innovative crypto solutions, working closely with our Product, Revenue, Financial and Operational teams to support the organization’s hyper-growth.
The Chief Technical Officer will develop a compelling vision and strategy for product engineering and innovation at CoinsPaid and will execute it with strong results orientation and focus on building a world class Engineering organization. This role sits on our Executive Team and reports directly to CEO
In this role your primary goals will be:
- Define and communicate a compelling technical vision and roadmap aligned with CoinsPaid’s mission and business objectives
- Bring maturity to the tech organization from a process and people standpoint while balancing technical and product innovation
- Lead, mentor, uplevel, and grow an engineering team, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning
- To drive scalable processes and methods around the product development cycle, to develop and improve metrics and OKRs to measure success and identifying areas for improvement
Your day-to-day projects will involve:
- Making executive decisions on behalf of the company's technological requirements
- Effectively manage the CoinsPaid's technology within established budget
- Set, track, and update core objectives and key results for engineering departments on a global level
- Run engineering initiatives and projects across the team
- Prioritise technical projects and initiatives and align them with global business strategy
- Oversee day-to-day technical operations, projects, and staff to meet business needs and objectives while ensuring system functionality and efficiency
- Facilitate the development and implementation of disaster recovery and IT security failure plans
- Clearly articulate the organization's technical vision and roadmap to key stakeholders, team leaders, and the broader executive leadership team. Present goals, wins, and progress updates regularly
- Work with other executives and senior managers on the Company's strategy, vision, and operations
- Work with other executives, senior managers and department heads on cross-team collaboration and operations to ensure transparent and efficient work process
- Keep track of industry trends and news, analyze external data to identify threats and opportunities, share it with the team
- Ensure best practices of knowledge sharing and implementation, align the team to standard practices
- Calculate, manage, and mitigate risks affecting products development
- Work on team growth and resource allocation; develop and maintain a hiring plan for engineering teams
- Manage, coach, and mentor engineering leaders. Work on the overall growth system for the engineering department
- Manage strategic vendor and technology partner relationships
- Support the company's reputation and organize/ participate in tech events for its brand promotion and translate its vision to the market
Requirements:
- 15+ years of professional experience with at least 5 years in an executive or similar level capacity
- Proven track record in building and leading high performance global engineering teams of 100+ across a portfolio of products or product lines
- Proven experience in a technical leadership role within FinTech/Payment systems environment (Crypto domain knowledge is a perfect match)
- Computer Science or Engineering degree required, MBA is a plus
- Demonstrated ability to translate strategy into action
- Excellent analytical skills and an ability to communicate complex issues in a simple way and to orchestrate plans to resolve issues and mitigate risks
- Ability to see the big picture, develop plans, and lead others to accomplish goals
- Ability to make quick decisions and generate buy-in from leadership team members
- Ability to drive technical direction and execution through teams and enable others
- Seamlessly prioritize multiple projects with limited resources and information
- Problem solver with a hands-on approach and the ability to anticipate adverse scenarios with thoughtful solutions to address them
- Strong cross-functional relationship builder
- Excellent influencing and consultative skills and the ability to proactively identify and resolve issues and opportunities
- Strong conflict management and negotiation skills
- Proficiency in English and Russian, written and verbal
Why should you choose CoinsPaid?
To become a part of this solid team, passionate about their jobs and the crypto industry as a whole. To feel a great team spirit and meet people supporting each other's growth and development. To become a part of a rapidly developing international company and a crypto payments leader. Only in 2023 CoinsPaid was awarded 8 times:
- Forbes - “Best Crypto Payment Gateway for High-Volume Transactions”;
- The Global Brands Magazine - "Leading Cryptocurrency Payment Solutions - Estonia";
- Baltic TECH Awards - “Blockchain: Company of the Year”;
- Global Payment Innovation Awards - “Best Blockchain Payment Initiative“;
- EGR B2B Awards - “Cryptocurrency Services Supplier 2023 ”;
- EiGE Awards - “Best Payment Provider in 2023”;
- MiGEA Excellence Awards - “Best Crypto Payment Provider”;
- SiGMA Balkans - “Crypto Payment Solution of the Year”.
Solid facts about CoinsPaid:
- Private and profitable company, registered and licensed in Estonia;
- Secure business, with regular financial and regulatory audits;
- Over 9 years of experience in the blockchain development;
- Over €700M processed in crypto monthly;
- Over 1M transactions processed monthly;
- Over 800 merchants accounts serviced;
- Over 220 team members across 30+ countries.
By joining CoinsPaid now, you’ll participate in building the world's best crypto payment ecosystem, conquering new markets, and popularising cryptocurrencies.
Sounds good? Well then, we can’t wait to see your resume!
