# Artur Malev

**Engineering Manager**  
Nicosia, Cyprus

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## Summary

I'm an engineering manager and backend engineer with 10+ years in software, mostly in fintech, payments, ride-hailing, and ed-tech. I started as a Ruby/Rails developer and moved into engineering leadership while staying close to backend architecture and delivery.

## Experience

### Engineering Manager, FinTech / MoneyHub at inDrive
**Mar 2025 to Present**

- Lead the FinTech / MoneyHub engineering team working on payments and checkout for several product verticals.
- Work on PSP integrations, Apple Pay, saved cards, payouts, fiscalization, and partner APIs and SDKs from architecture through delivery.
- Build the team and coordinate delivery and technical decisions when payment work spans several product groups.

### Engineering Manager / Backend Engineer at Wheely
**May 2021 to Feb 2025**

- Led a cross-functional engineering team responsible for payment and platform work.
- Integrated payment providers and Apple Pay, built payment currency conversion, automated partner payouts, and worked on fraud prevention.
- Set up planning and retrospective processes and stayed involved in backend architecture.

### Backend Team Lead / Senior Ruby Developer at Mail.ru Group
**Sep 2020 to May 2021**

- Joined as a senior Ruby developer and later led backend development for an ed-tech product.
- Managed the backend team and ran regular 1:1s.
- Dockerized the development environment and started removing unused code from a large Rails monolith.

### Technical Lead / Ruby Developer at Cashwagon
**2018 to 2020**

- Led development on a fintech lending platform, with responsibility for code quality and delivery.
- Improved test coverage, fixed production issues, and sped up background jobs.
- Built a geocoding service and a facial-recognition integration using Azure Cognitive Services.

### Software Developer at ICOyard
**2018 to 2018**

- Worked on a Rails-based ICO platform with Sidekiq, Redis, PostgreSQL, and dry-rb.
- Improved test coverage and moved business logic into service objects.

## Skills

- Engineering management
- System architecture
- Payments and fintech
- Ruby / Ruby on Rails
- Backend engineering
- Team building and mentoring