Chief Technology Officer

Client: A large international company in the online sports and entertainment industry, one of the market leaders with many years of experience and millions of active users worldwide. We are constantly growing and implementing cutting-edge technologies to enhance customer engagement and experience.
Key Responsibilities:
Technology Strategy & Execution:
- Define and evolve the long-term technology vision in alignment with business goals.
- Translate strategy into actionable engineering roadmaps.
- Oversee architectural decisions, ensure scalability, security, and technical excellence.
- Promote adoption of modern tools, frameworks, and best practices.

Organizational Leadership:
- Lead, mentor, and inspire a distributed engineering organization through Development Managers and senior technical leaders.
- Foster a high-performance, collaborative, and inclusive engineering culture.
- Ensure clear communication of goals, expectations, and progress across all levels.

Operational Oversight:
- Own execution of the product and engineering roadmap.
- Balance delivery speed, quality, and scalability.
- Set and monitor performance metrics (velocity, reliability, incident response).

Cross-functional Collaboration:
- Work closely with Product, Business, and Design to align technical solutions with market needs.
- Contribute to customer-centric innovation that drives revenue growth and user retention.

Risk, Security & Compliance:
- Ensure robust data protection, platform security, and compliance with relevant regulations.
- Lead crisis and incident management with structured postmortem practices.
- Implement disaster recovery and business continuity plans.

Innovation & R&D:
- Drive continuous improvement and experimentation across engineering.
- Oversee development of proof-of-concept projects to validate new technologies.
- Encourage innovation through internal initiatives (hackathons, tech labs, etc.).

Your Background:
- 10+ years in software engineering with at least 5 years in senior technology leadership.
- Deep expertise in backend development (PHP, Node.js, or Go) and system design.
- Hands-on experience with highload architectures and distributed systems.
- Proven success building scalable cloud-native applications (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes).
- Strong leadership track record with remote, multicultural teams.
- Familiarity with technical and regulatory specifics of the online gambling industry is a strong plus.