At Trading Space, we support and grow two CS2 skins marketplaces and a B2B service that enables payments with in-game items. We’re looking for someone who can build scalable systems, lead all of our engineers, and align technology with business ambitions.
YOUR QUEST-LINE: * Define and own technical strategy, aligning it constantly with business goals and controlling technical debt. Overview the implementation within team plans; * Collaborate with CPO and stakeholders to prepare and implement product roadmaps; * Improve our engineering culture: establish architecture principles, engineering standards and clear roles, cultivate ownership and autonomy among engineers; * Refine main architectural decisions to ensure they suit our context in the best possible way; * Improve delivery by changing the processes from planning to deployment; * Adopt new tools and manage resources pragmatically: to keep our systems reliable and efficient; * Provide infrastructure and access management so analysts have timely data in secure, self-serve tooling.
YOUR IN-GAME SKIN: * 5+ years in senior technical leadership roles: CTO, Head or VP of Engineering, Engineering Director or Manager; * Led organizations of 40+ engineers and scaled at least one team by 2× (from ~15+ engineers); * Worked in product companies, aligning needs of multiple products or business areas; * Has a strong technical background. We use Vue, Laravel, and AWS, but experience with any modern web development and infra stack will do; * Demonstrates initiative: examples of proactively identifying problems, suggesting ideas, and developing and implementing solutions that affect tens of employees across different functions; * Worked directly with business representatives and C-level executives; * Acts like a modern manager who leads by coaching, empowerment, and building strong teams;
WILL BE YOUR BOOST: * Familiarity with the Steam trade system, skins market, or gaming experience (CS2, Dota2, Rust); * Hands-on skills in Vue, Laravel, or GitLab CI; * Experience setting up reliability practices (SLI/SLOs, incident management, and post-mortems) or observability (metrics/logs/traces) from scratch; * Domain experience in high-load e-commerce, Fintech, or iGaming projects.
YOUR POWER-UPS SOURCE: * Spontaneous weekend from the CEO; * Support for professional development, including events (we went on a MAJOR trip to Copenhagen, for example), certifications, and educational materials; * Start working at a time that’s comfortable for you; * People Partner who will always support you in word and deed; * Anniversary and performance bonuses; * Input on project direction in a bureaucracy-free environment; * Regular performance reviews and personal feedback sessions; * 20 paid vacation days and 7 sick leave days; * Assisting with the accounting and tax management for individual entrepreneurs; * English language and Well-being benefit — so that you can improve your mental health the way you want; * No time tracking; * We purchase CHARGING STATIONS for our spacers; * We help Ukraine: every month the company supports AFU and transfers donations for ammunition and supplies.
If you read everything carefully and exclaimed, then we are already looking forward to your resume and portfolio!
