HeadofMachineLearning

OUR MISSION AND VISION At Solidgate, our mission is clear: to empower outstanding entrepreneurs to build exceptional internet companies. We exist to fuel the builders — the ones shaping the digital economy — with the financial infrastructure they deserve. We’re building the #1 payment orchestrator in the world — and the names behind us prove it. Clients include Bolt, Ajax, Nova Post, MEGOGO. Trusted by giants like J.P. Morgan. Ranked #2 in the “Employer of the Year 2026” award by Forbes Ukraine. ABOUT THE TEAM AND ROLE This is the first dedicated ML leadership role at Solidgate — you won't inherit a function, you'll create one. You'll stand up the ML/AI direction from scratch — the vision, the architecture, and the team — on top of 20M+ orders and 100M+ transactions a month. The next big step is a recommendation engine and a real-time system that decides which acquiring bank routes each transaction. That's the gap you're here to fill. WHAT YOU WILL OWN — The vision, architecture, and roadmap for ML/AI at Solidgate — a true greenfield direction, not a maintenance handover — Building and leading the team, combining new hires with engineers who already carry a deep payments context — A real-time ML decisioning system with direct revenue impact — A recommendation engine and other ML-driven features that lift merchant conversion and revenue — Integrations of cutting-edge AI technologies to drive innovation — Partnership with Product, Engineering, and the Data Platform team (who handle ML Ops) to solve hard modelling problems and build orchestrated training and analytics pipelines — Clear communication of complex results to audiences from engineers to executives OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE — 5+ years in ML — Proven experience building and scaling an ML function — you've done founding-level work before, not just contributed to an existing one — Strong data science fundamentals, a master's or PhD in a quantitative discipline — Hands-on experience designing and running experiments,