MANDATE TA-2418·RETAINED·CONFIDENTIAL·POSTED 2 DAYS AGO
Chief Technology Officer
Stealth-mode fintech
LOCATION
Mumbai · Hybrid
EXPERIENCE
12+ years
TEAM SIZE
60 → 200
REPORTS TO
CEO & Board
NOTICE PERIOD
Up to 90 days
About the role
A Series-B fintech operating in the cross-border payments and treasury management space is hiring its first dedicated Chief Technology Officer. The company is currently led by a technical founder who will transition to the CEO role full-time. The CTO will inherit a 60-person engineering organisation and scale it to 200 over the next 24 months while migrating the platform from a monolithic Ruby/Postgres stack to an event-driven, polyglot architecture.
Own the multi-year technical roadmap, including migration from a monolithic Ruby/Postgres stack to an event-driven, polyglot architecture.:
Carry 99.99% SLA commitments to enterprise customers; partner with the CFO and Head of Risk on RBI, PCI-DSS, and ISO 27001 compliance.:
Own the build-vs-buy framework for core infrastructure and the company's relationship with cloud, observability, and security vendors.:
Represent technology at the board level and in investor diligence; partner with the CEO on the company's technical positioning to enterprise customers and prospective acquirers.:
What we're looking for
12+ years in software engineering with a minimum of 5 years leading 50+ engineer organisations at a high-growth product company.
Demonstrated experience scaling an engineering function through a Series-B to Series-D inflection.
Deep technical credibility — you can still read code and architect systems, even if you no longer ship them.
Prior exposure to regulated environments — payments, banking, or a comparable regulated B2B SaaS context.
Excellent written communication. The board reads, the company reads, and you will be the technical voice.