Head of Platform

Location: Cyprus, Georgia, Poland, Spain, Serbia, Latvia

Department: IT

Workplace: remote

Employment Type: full

Description

The Platform team is the foundation of GoMining’s ecosystem. It owns the services that every product depends on — custody, KYC, compliance, core application components, and platform reliability.

As Head of Platform, you will own this domain end-to-end. You will define the platform strategy, lead a cross-functional engineering organization, establish engineering standards, and ensure the platform remains secure, scalable, and highly available.

This is a hands-on leadership role requiring a combination of technical expertise, product ownership, and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

Platform Ownership

• Own the Platform domain as an internal product serving multiple product teams.
• Define the platform strategy, roadmap, priorities, and success metrics.
• Drive platform scalability, reliability, and engineering excellence.

Custody & Financial Infrastructure

• Own custody infrastructure, including Fireblocks, Uphold, and similar providers.
• Ensure secure asset storage, withdrawals, deposits, and fund movements.
• Improve operational reliability across wallet infrastructure.

Compliance Platform

• Own KYC, Travel Rule, and compliance-related platform capabilities.
• Work closely with Legal and Compliance teams to ensure regulatory readiness, including MiCA requirements.
• Improve verification flows and customer onboarding performance.

Platform Reliability

• Define and maintain platform SLA and uptime targets.
• Establish incident management, monitoring, and operational excellence processes.
• Improve deployment reliability and platform resilience.

Engineering Leadership

• Lead a cross-functional platform team.
• Mentor engineers and technical leads.
• Drive architectural decisions and engineering standards.
• Build a strong engineering culture focused on quality and ownership.

Cross-functional Collaboration

• Work closely with Product, Engineering, Security, Compliance, and Operations teams.
• Introduce and scale inner-source engineering practices across product teams.
• Support strategic platform initiatives and future technology migrations.

Success Metrics

• Platform uptime and SLA.
• KYC pass rate.
• Time-to-deposit.
• Time-to-withdraw.
• Platform stability and incident reduction.
• Engineering velocity and platform adoption across product teams.

Requirements

• 3+ years leading platform, infrastructure, or core engineering teams.
• Experience owning shared platform services used by multiple product teams.
• Strong experience in fintech, payments, digital banking, crypto, or financial infrastructure.
• Practical experience with custody platforms such as Fireblocks or similar solutions.
• Deep understanding of KYC providers, Travel Rule, AML, and regulatory compliance.
• Experience defining and managing platform reliability, SLA, uptime, and incident management processes.
• Strong Node.js background with the ability to review architecture and production code.
• Experience building and scaling engineering organizations.
• Experience owning platform budgets, roadmaps, and business priorities.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

Technology Stack

• Node.js
• TypeScript
• PostgreSQL
• Redis
• RabbitMQ
• Kubernetes
• GitLab CI/CD
• Docker
• REST APIs
• Fireblocks
• Uphold
• AI-powered engineering tools (Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or similar)

Nice to Have

• Experience with MiCA implementation.
• Experience in Bitcoin, crypto, or Web3 infrastructure.
• Experience implementing inner-source engineering practices.
• Experience leading platform migrations or large-scale architectural transformations.
• Familiarity with Flutter architecture and mobile platform development.

Benefits

• Professional growth: support for courses, conferences, and English learning (up to 100% coverage).
• Work-life fit: remote or hybrid format with flexible hours across international teams.
• Paid leave: up to 20 vacation days + 8 company holidays + 5 personal days per year
• Recognition programs: structured performance reviews and team awards.
• Team culture: retreats in international locations (for example, company apartments in Cyprus).