Fractional CTO

Role Description

As a Netguru freelancer, you can choose what works well for you. You decide when, where, and how you work on projects and tasks.

• We match you with work that fits your skills.
• Access to various opportunities across different industries and companies.
• Gain more experience and develop various skills.
• Benefit from full-time collaboration and be a part of the team.

Are you ready to make an impact? Join Netguru, and let's build beautiful software together.

• Salary range: up to 85 USD/h (negotiable)
• Engagement: 0.7
• Working Hours: ET
• Start date: end of September 2026
• Project duration: 4 months

Qualifications

• Proven experience architecting TypeScript monorepos (Nx or Turborepo) at production scale.
• Deep experience with Next.js and Node.js service design.
• Strong PostgreSQL data modeling experience, ideally with financial or ledger-style data (transactional integrity, auditability, state machines).
• Hands-on experience designing security and compliance into an architecture — RBAC/MFA, immutable audit trails, data residency/segregation.
• Working familiarity with SOC 2 Type II and/or the EU Data Act (or comparable regulatory frameworks).
• Demonstrated ability to design data isolation/segregation architectures for systems that combine sensitive persisted data with AI or third-party processing.

Requirements

• Prior architecture experience in fintech or another regulated domain (healthtech, insurtech, etc.) - Nice to have.
• Cloud-agnostic Infrastructure-as-Code fluency (Terraform or similar) to keep a three-environment setup vendor-neutral.
• Experience working alongside a security-focused PM or compliance function from the Discovery phase onward.

Benefits

• 100% remote, flexible work.
• Work with an experienced team of developers and continuous development of your hard and soft skills.
• Dev-friendly processes such as Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Code Review and bug bashes.
• Long-term collaboration on challenging products (FinTech, B2B software, E-commerce and more).

Company Description

At Netguru, we're committed to creating an inclusive environment for everyone. If you require any disability-related adaptations during the recruitment process, please let us know. We're here to help!