What will need to do:
- Grow the team from 45 → 100+ engineers
- Hire, coach, and develop the engineering management layer
- Structure the organization and architect the platform for hypergrowth
- Establish a predictable SDLC
- Partner closely with Product Management to deliver the most impactful business outcomes in priority order
- Set quality standards and SLAs
- Scale production capacity so it never bottlenecks growth
- Own FinOps and vendor management
- Refine career ladders and the hiring process
Requirements:
- 10+ years of engineering management experience
- Experience leading teams of 30+
- Experience with high-scale software development and operations
- Experience leading engineering teams on customer-facing SaaS
- Strong knowledge of agentic systems (even without production experience)
- Strong software architecture skills
- English and Russian at B2+: excellent communication skills, both spoken and written
- Location: Eastern Europe or Armenia
- Startup experience
Additional experience we value:
- A track record of scaling an engineering organization from ~40 to 150 people as a VP of Engineering or CTO
- A background in AI/ML, voice, or real-time systems
- A track record of building high-scale software in a public cloud
- A background in zero-to-one organization building and rapid decision-making.