Conditions:

• Salary: 10.000 azn
• Location: Remote (UTC+0 to UTC+4)
• Type: Full-time

About the Role:

We are hiring a Head of Engineering — the first engineering leader who will take full ownership of executing AlemX's technical strategy.

This is an execution-focused leadership role. Your mandate is to turn the existing architecture and team into a machine that consistently ships. You will remove operational engineering overhead from the CEO and uphold the quality, security, and delivery velocity that a fintech product handling real financial flows demands.

Responsibilities:

Engineering Delivery

• Full ownership of the roadmap and sprints: planning, prioritization, shipping
• Leading the current team and scaling it to 8-12 engineers over the next 12 months
• Establishing processes: code review, CI/CD, incident response, on-call rotation
• Weekly engineering reports to the CEO and board

Security & Compliance

• Closing critical findings from the recent technical audit
• Operational ownership of the SOC 2 Type I process alongside the Compliance Lead
• Security hygiene: secrets management, access control, dependency audits

Hiring & Team

• Screening, hiring, and onboarding new engineers
• Performance management, 1-on-1s, career development
• Shaping the engineering culture: accountability, ownership, code quality

Vendor & Partnerships

• Technical stewardship of relationships with infrastructure and payment partners
• Due diligence on new technical partners

Communication

• Representing engineering in investor conversations
• Aligning with product, compliance, marketing, and other functions

Requirements:

Must-have

• 8+ years in engineering, including 3+ years in a management role (Engineering Manager / Head of Engineering / VP)
• Experience leading teams of 5-15 engineers in a product company
• Shipping experience in fintech, payments, or a similarly regulated environment
• Strong operational discipline: processes, metrics, delivery predictability
• Readiness to operate in an early-stage startup: hands-on, no corporate comfort, multiple context switches per day
• Fluent English (written and spoken); Russian is a welcome bonus but not required

Nice-to-have:

• Experience passing SOC 2, PCI DSS, or similar audits
• Experience with mobile-first products built on React Native
• Experience with distributed / remote teams across different time zones

Personal Fit:

• Ownership mindset: you take a problem and drive it to completion rather than handing it off
• Low ego: comfortable operating within an already-established architecture rather than rewriting it to match your preferences
• Doer, not a slide-maker: your output is working product in production, not PowerPoint
• Communication: able to explain technical decisions to non-technical stakeholders (investors, legal, compliance)

What We Offer:

• Compensation: market-rate base salary (finalized after screening)
• Equity: meaningful equity package from the Employee Option Pool (4-year vesting, 1-year cliff)
• Impact: the #1 engineering role with a direct reporting line to the CEO and a seat at the table for all key decisions
• Ownership: full autonomy over engineering; you are the final authority on all technical processes
• Remote-first with periodic visits to Baku (team, offsites)

Hiring Process:

• Screening call (30 min, with CEO) — mutual introduction, fit check
• Technical deep dive (90 min, with CEO + Lead Developer) — architecture discussion, past projects, problem-solving
• Case study (async, 3-5 hours) — a practical scenario based on real AlemX engineering challenges
• Cultural + reference round (60 min + references) — final check
• Offer

The full process takes 2-3 weeks from the first call to an offer.

How to Apply:

Send a brief message to the e-mail address in the Apply for job button including:

• Why AlemX and why this role specifically
• The most significant engineering project you have led (stack, team size, outcome)
• A link to your LinkedIn / GitHub
• Your earliest possible start date

An NDA is signed before the technical deep dive. Architecture and product details are not disclosed without a signed NDA.