Head of Development (e-Sim)

Come aboard with Saily, our new eSIM service designed for travelers and explorers! We’re bringing our expertise in cybersecurity to an essential product that makes travel effortless and more sustainable while cutting out surprise roaming costs.

And we’re already making waves, earning praise from trusted travel experts and tech reviewers: Lonely Planet has named Saily, their go-to eSIM for travelers, and PCMag.com has rated it an “Excellent” product! Join the Saily crew to build technology that connects the world while gaining global recognition.

Main Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership: Define and execute the engineering roadmap to support product scaling, global expansion, and enhanced user experience.
• Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with product, marketing, and business teams to align engineering initiatives with company goals.
• Technical Excellence: Oversee the design, development, and deployment of the eSIM platform, ensuring scalability, security, and reliability. 
• Product Scaling: Design and implement scalable system architectures to support millions of users with high throughput and low latency. Develop frameworks for seamless integration. 
• Infrastructure Optimization: Build and optimize cloud-based infrastructures with redundancy, failover mechanisms, and robust disaster recovery plans.
• Automation and Efficiency: Implement automated provisioning, CI/CD pipelines, and self-healing systems to enhance operational scalability.
• Security and Privacy: Scale encryption and security protocols to ensure data integrity and compliance with privacy regulations globally.
• Team Development: scale and lead a high-performing engineering team. Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Core Requirements

• Experience in software engineering leadership roles, ideally within telecom, IoT, or SaaS industries.
• Strong technical expertise in areas such as eSIM, telecommunications protocols, embedded systems, or mobile technologies.
• Deep understanding of scalability challenges and distributed system design.
• Experience working with global teams and managing cross-functional collaboration.
• Strong project management skills, with a track record of delivering complex projects on time and within budget.
• Check out our Key qualities and behaviors of a successful leader at Nord Security

Salary range

• Starting salary from - 7600 Eur/Gross per month.

About Us

Nord Security is a global leader in internet privacy and security solutions and Lithuania’s second tech unicorn. Established in 2012, Nord Security now has more than 1400 employees and serves millions of users worldwide. Our team has a global mission to shape a more secure and peaceful online future for people everywhere. With that in mind, we built several advanced cybersecurity solutions: NordVPN, NordLayer, NordLocker, NordPass, NordProtect, NordStellar, and Saily.

And we’re always looking to expand our team of:

• Future shapers

• Restless achievers

• Self-movers

• Honest communicators

• Team players

What We Offer

• Access to Nord Security products. We build solutions used by millions of users worldwide, and you’ll get to experience our products firsthand;

• Professional growth. Internal and external events, online training, conferences, books - everything you need to reach full potential;

• Health benefits. Private health insurance, online and on-site workouts, consultations to feel and be your best;

• Mental wellbeing. Access to mental health tools like Calm, Headspace, and Mindletic. Options for therapy to keep your emotional wellbeing in check;

• Team spirit. Team buildings and parties with games, shows, tastings, food coupons, gifts, and it’s on us;

• More free time. Stay with us and additional vacation days will be added to your calendar;

• Additional paid leave. Additional days are covered by us in cases of illness or special occasions;

• Flexibility. Flexible working time arrangement.

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