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Founding CTO (Fintech and AI Platform)

Remote-first Full-time Now hiring

We are a unified platform that helps businesses easily build and operationalize intelligence to solve business problems. We focus on enabling financial services, fintechs, and insurers to become fully intelligent enterprises where workflows become intelligent systems. We are building the core infrastructure layer that connects data, models, decisions, and execution into one platform. We are looking for a CTO who can own the technical vision, move with speed, and help turn the vision into a durable, scalable platform.

What You'll Do

Platform & Architecture

  • Own the end-to-end technical architecture of the the platform
  • Enhance MVP for scalability, security, reliability, and extensibility
  • Translate the product vision into clear technical systems and roadmaps

Engineering Leadership

  • Lead and mentor a distributed engineering team
  • Establish engineering standards, rituals, and delivery cadence
  • Build a culture of ownership, clarity, and technical excellence
  • Balance speed with quality in a fast-moving startup environment

Product Enablement

  • Partner closely with Product and GTM to align delivery with market needs
  • Ensure engineering builds the right things at the right depth
  • Help shape the platform toward workflows, intelligence, simplicity, and compounding value

Risk & Stability

  • Identify and reduce technical risk
  • Prevent unnecessary rewrites, fragility, or over-engineering
  • Ensure reliability, observability, and security are embedded in the platform

External Credibility

  • Represent the technical vision to customers, partners, and investors
  • Support enterprise sales, security reviews, and technical diligence
  • Build confidence that our company is a long-term, enterprise-ready platform

Who You Are

  • 5+ years in engineering with experience building or scaling real platforms
  • Experience as a founder, early CTO, principal engineer, or senior platform lead
  • Have built or scaled real AI-enabled or data-intensive platforms in production
  • Have deep comfort with distributed systems, data pipelines, and applied ML
  • Comfortable operating with ambiguity, ownership, and speed
  • Deeply values simplicity, clarity, and good technical judgment
  • Strong communicator who can translate technical ideas into business impact
  • Motivated by mission, impact, and ownership

Bonus

  • Experience in fintech, financial services, insurance, or enterprise SaaS
  • Prior experience supporting early-stage fundraising or technical diligence

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