Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Chief Technology Officer

What You'll Own

Technical Strategy

• Set technical vision for a hybrid financial system spanning PSPs, ledgers, reconciliation, custody, on-chain actions, bridges.
• Define architectures and guardrails for auth, data pipelines, orchestration, observability, multi-tenant admin.
• Make build/buy decisions balancing speed, reliability, regulation.

Product Delivery

• Translate goals into sequenced delivery plans with milestones and risks.
• Own audit-ready underwriting & reconciliation pipelines.
• Uphold high standards for design docs, PRs, CI/CD, releases.

Data & Financial Systems

• Lead ingestion, normalization, schemas, reconciliation flows.
• Implement payment patterns, wallet infra, key management.

Security & Reliability

• Own security posture & SOC2 readiness: controls, evidence, logging, access reviews.
• Define SLIs/SLOs, observability, alerting, CI/test/security gates.

Org Leadership

• Build backend, data, infra, blockchain teams with clear ownership.
• Hire/mentor EMs, TLs, principal ICs; run on-call & post-incident processes.

Stakeholder Management

• Partner with Product on roadmaps & trade-offs; clearly communicate risks.
• Lead integrations with PSPs, custodians, and external partners.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ yrs engineering, 5+ yrs leading multi-team fintech/payments orgs.
• Built & shipped payment/fintech systems from zero.
• Architected financial systems across traditional + crypto/DeFi.
• Experience with SLIs/SLOs, incidents, observability, CI/CD, security automation.
• Strong systems/data architecture: schemas, reconciliation, lineage, risk models.
• Executive-level communication & stakeholder alignment.
• Ability to attract, develop, retain top engineering talent.
• Conviction in the creator economy’s future.

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS, Terraform.
• Hands-on: TypeScript/Node, Python, or Go.
• Payments/PSP integrations, ledgers, SOC2 Type II.
• Web3 familiarity: EVM, custody, bridge/DEX risks.
• Data platforms: CDC, warehouses, dbt, OTel/Datadog/Prometheus.