Role- CTO Mexico

Location – Mexico City, Mexico

Position type- Fulltime

Start - ASAP

Job Description:

The ideal candidate should have a payments or related Fintech experience, either from the service

provider or online merchant payment perspective.

The CTO will be a key member of the senior management team, reporting directly to the COO, and

leading a growing team of engineers with responsibility for the vision, leadership, and

implementation of overall technology strategy.

The role will require a passionate, business-oriented technology leader who can provide leadership

and management in the design and development of the major technical initiatives that support

strategic business programs and facilitate revenue growth.

Along with senior management team, the CTO will play a critical role in the development of

the company's business strategy (customer acquisition and retention, product roadmap

development, infrastructure and platform development), and then lead the development and

implementation of technology that aligns with this business strategy.

Your Responsibilities:

• Provide strong leadership and management to technology teams, including

recruitment, employee training and development, and performance management.

• Define, architect, and execute the organizational and infrastructure plan required to fulfill

the company's business and technology strategies.

• Supervise all functional areas of technology including software design and development,

enterprise architecture, quality assurance and testing, production operations and technical

support, network and systems administration, and information security management.

• Grow and scale the team by recruiting world-class technical talent as needed. Create and

foster an environment conducive to innovation, high productivity, and high quality.

• Provide high-level leadership to development projects that improve the functionality,

reliability, scalability, and security of the company's applications and systems.

• Drive a software development lifecycle process and culture that ensures the appropriate

balance in which quality products are produced in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

• Ensure sound architectural designs are employed and advocate for best practices and

processes.

• Create a strong internal culture to manage technology projects with accurate time

estimates, adherence to deadlines, and strong communication to stakeholders.

• Oversee the technology organization's information security, disaster recovery, and business

continuity efforts.

• Work in partnership with internal functional teams as a technology partner in forwarding

business capabilities.

• Provide input to annual budget exercises and manage organizational spending to set

budgets.

• Assist the senior management team in crafting the Company's growth and organizational

management strategies.

• Deliver the highest level of service to both internal and external constituents.

Qualifications:

• Proven dynamic leader of a high-growth technology organization. Payments experience a

major plus.

• 10+ years' experience in software design and development, preferably in a SaaS or web[1]based environment.

• 5+ years' management of technical teams, including responsibilities for hiring,

management, resource allocation, and budgeting.

• Hands on technical experience with AWS architecture, cloud services, microservice, API,

mobile integration, security, data protection, DevOps, CD/CI

• Deep knowledge of major AWS services, Java, Spring, .NET, javascript, reactjs, python,

REST, json, SQL Server, mySQL, redis, git and related technologies.

• Strong familiarity with information security, risk management, and payments industry

compliance requirements.

• Experience with security, compliance, business continuity audit.

• Experience with payments (cards, e-wallets, bank transfers, digital tokens, etc.), fintech,

blockchain

• Willing to work in a dynamic, rapidly changing environment and interact with partners and

customers directly.

• Exceptionally self-motivated and directed, with top-notch interpersonal and

communication skills.

• Proven ability to motivate in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.

• Superior analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving abilities.

• Exceptional service orientation.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related discipline.

Master's degree in one of these fields is a plus