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Head of Development

Other • Director • Remote • Full-time • Malta Malta

A hands-on Head of Development is sought to lead the technical direction, reliability and evolution of a financial technology platform covering banking, payments, investment services and order management. The role combines engineering leadership with production ownership.

Responsibilities

  • ▹Own the technical direction and engineering standards of the core platform
  • ▹Provide hands-on guidance, mentoring and constructive challenge to engineers across multiple services and repositories
  • ▹Review architectural decisions and production changes affecting financial integrity, performance, resilience and recovery
  • ▹Translate business priorities into a practical technical roadmap
  • ▹Lead the investigation of complex production incidents across ledger, order-management, matching and payment services
  • ▹Trace transactions and failures across process boundaries using logs, traces, data and network evidence
  • ▹Improve observability, incident response and recovery procedures
  • ▹Define operational controls for stateful services
  • ▹Protect the reliability and integrity of the ledger, order-management and matching capabilities
  • ▹Develop the team through mentoring and code and design reviews

Requirements

  • ▹Hands-on technical leadership experience with financial systems
  • ▹Experience with concurrency, binary protocols, clustered services, deterministic processing, replay and recovery
  • ▹Confident work across Linux, Kubernetes and event-driven infrastructure, including safe operation of stateful workloads
  • ▹Evidence-led decision making and understanding of production systems

Soft skills

MentoringConstructive technical discussionOwnership of production issues

About the company

R77 Global is a talent advisory partner connecting professionals with organisations across iGaming, fintech, payments, financial services, technology and Web3. The posting is on behalf of a client.

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