Chief Technology Officer

At Trading Space, we support and grow two CS2 skins marketplaces and a B2B service that enables payments with in-game items. We’re looking for someone who can build scalable systems, lead all of our engineers, and align technology with business ambitions.

💪 YOUR QUEST-LINE:

• Define and own technical strategy, aligning it constantly with business goals and controlling technical debt. Overview the implementation within team plans;
• Collaborate with CPO and stakeholders to prepare and implement product roadmaps;
• Improve our engineering culture: establish architecture principles, engineering standards and clear roles, cultivate ownership and autonomy among engineers;
• Refine main architectural decisions to ensure they suit our context in the best possible way;
• Improve delivery by changing the processes from planning to deployment;
• Adopt new tools and manage resources pragmatically: to keep our systems reliable and efficient;

• Provide infrastructure and access management so analysts have timely data in secure, self-serve tooling.

   

👨‍🚀  YOUR IN-GAME SKIN:

• 5+ years in senior technical leadership roles: CTO, Head or VP of Engineering, Engineering Director or Manager;
• Led organizations of 40+ engineers and scaled at least one team by 2× (from ~15+ engineers);
• Worked in product companies, aligning needs of multiple products or business areas;
• Has a strong technical background. We use Vue, Laravel and AWS, but experience with any modern web development and infra stack will do;
• Demonstrates initiative: examples of proactively identifying problems, suggesting ideas, developing and implementing solutions that affect tens of employees across different functions;
• Worked directly with business representatives, c-level executives;
• Acts like modern manager who leads by coaching, empowerment, and building strong teams.
   

🧜‍♀️ WILL BE YOUR BOOST:

• Familiarity with the Steam trade system, skins market, or gaming experience (CS2, Dota2, Rust);
• Hands-on skills in Vue, Laravel or Gitlab CI;
• Experience setting up reliability practices (SLI/SLOs, incident management and post-mortems) or observability (metrics/logs/traces) from scratch;

• Domain experience in high-load e-commerce, Fintech, or iGaming projects.

   

🥷 YOUR POWER-UPS SOURCE:

• Spontaneous weekend from the CEO;
• Support for professional development, including events (we went on a MAJOR trip to Copenhagen, for example), certifications, and educational materials;
• Start working at a time that’s comfortable for you;
• People Partner who will always support you in word and deed;
• Anniversary and performance bonuses;
• Input on project direction in a bureaucracy-free environment;
• Regular performance reviews and personal feedback sessions;
• 20 paid vacation days and 7 sick leave days;
• Assisting with the accounting and tax management for individual entrepreneurs;
• English language and Well-being benefit — so that you can improve your mental health the way you want;
• No time tracking;
• We purchase CHARGING STATIONS for our spacers;
• We help Ukraine: every month the company supports AFU and transfers donations for ammunition and supplies.

If you read everything carefully and exclaimed: «Oh, yeah, I'm good at everything and I want to do cool things together!», then we are already looking forward to your resume and portfolio! 

Send them as soon as possible! 🚀