Head of Development / CTO (Equity Opportunity) - Glasgow

Captura Search's client is an innovative & ground breaking FinTech. This opportunity will take on the technical lead role and report directly in to the CEO & Founder. You'll continue the rapid advancement of their portfolio of solutions covering execution, custody, banking and clearing. Our client has a flat structure and 2020 will be a year of extensive growth for their business. There is the opportunity to earn equity as this is a critical position for their business.

To be seriously considered you'll need at least 15+ years’ experience in the #FinTech sector with strong management and technical capability. Knowledge of the financial sector including the regulatory framework, products and services will be a significant advantage.

Infrastructure

Kubernetes

• Monitoring with Prometheus
• Service mesh through ISTIO with egress gateways configured and pinned to Pods for whitelisted egress traffic
• Continual deployment, rolling deployments and canary through Flagger, istio virtual services + traffic shadowing, and helm charts
• Hashicorp Vault for secrets storage

Programming

• Golang & Python3 communicating over gRPC with proto (load balancing and request routing to instances of a service through istio) for immediate calls
• Postgres for data storage
• Kafka for non-immediate task queuing
• Redis for distributed locking and KV passing

If you want to work with advanced development techniques in combination with joining a FinTech, this offers an exceptional chance to be part of a high growth business.