Chief Technical Officer
First seen by Alion on Oct 21, 2026.
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 GitHub Actions;
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: “Oh, yeah, I’m good at everything and I want to do cool things together!”, then we are already looking forward to your resume and portfolio!
Send them as soon as possible! 🚀