WHAT YOU'LL BE WORKING ON
- Define and execute a high-level structure of systems and software solutions that support the business and product goals.
- Ensure architectural decisions and solutions to support scalability, performance, security, and maintainability.
- Evaluate and adopt appropriate technologies, frameworks, platforms, and tools.
- Ensure best engineering practices and design patterns.
- Ensure architectural and infrastructure decisions support scalability, security, and performance.
- Lead, mentor, and develop (through performance reviews) tech leads.
- Oversee the engineer and the engineer lead hiring/firing.
- Manage cybersecurity protocols in collaboration with DevOps, disaster recovery, and business continuity planning.
- Evaluate and negotiate with external vendors, suppliers, and service providers on IT tooling, subscriptions, etc.
- Act as a bridge between engineering teams and executive/business stakeholders.
- Manage helpdesk/support operations and internal IT services.
- Ensure uptime, reliability, and efficient incident response.
- Encourage technical experimentation and innovation across teams.
- Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies.
- Drive initiatives around automation, AI, and engineering process optimisation
- Design APIs and integration strategies between systems/services.
- Ensure smooth data flow across platforms.
- Establish coding, architectural, and infrastructure standards.
- Build and validate proof-of-concepts for new technologies or architectures.
- Mentor developers on architectural principles and practices.
WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED IN THIS ROLE
- Proven experience as an engineering leader or lead architect over the past several years, preferably in a SaaS company.
- Wide technical expertise: algorithms, data structures, Linux, networking, security, SQL/NoSQL databases, and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).
- Deep understanding of distributed systems and microservice architectures, including inter-service protocols and distributed transactions.
- Familiar with PCI DSS compliance requirements and secure system design practices.
- Strong hands-on development background, especially with Go and other modern languages.
- Expert in architectural design for scalable, secure, and maintainable systems.
- Skilled in technology selection, tooling, and platform integration.
- Strong grasp of software engineering best practices and architectural design patterns.
- Knowledge of DevOps, CI/CD, and incident response best practices.
- Effective communication and leadership skills, with the ability to mentor senior engineers and tech leads.
WHAT WE OFFER
- An opportunity to make something great even greater, you can be the reason why we grow, develop, and become the best fintech company on the market
- Career prospects - we are young, we have huge ambitions, and it is important that our employees grow with us
- Work with coworkers who are passionate about their business;
- Compensation that will fully correspond to the competence and knowledge, with yearly performance reviews
- Hybrid type of work ( if you choose);
- 20 days of vacation time; Bank holidays; Sick leaves; Additional birthday day off;
Top Skills
What We Do
FYST [faist] is a one-stop tech, payments and technology consultancy for eCommerce and FinTech businesses. It empowers entrepreneurs with a unique mix of agile technical payments capabilities, payment technologies guidance, regulatory compliance, and AML advisory services from its team of payment and banking industry leaders. Focused on technological excellence FYST offers clients a full scope of integration and software advisory, complemented by in-house payment gateways development. Designed to help businesses navigate the fast-growing cross-border eCommerce market, FYST brings together leading fintech innovators under one brand, combining unparalleled technical ingenuity, and tailored advice to help fledgling businesses successfully scale up, and receive access to more than 70 global payment methods via the network of partners.
