Chief Technology Officer

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for section headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections if posting has real specific content. We must not repeat job title as heading. Must not include Job ID etc. Must preserve all substantive info, remove boilerplate, navigation, legal, EEO, etc. Also remove application instructions and Q&A parts (the parts asking for applicant info). So we need to extract the job description content: company description, role overview, responsibilities, what you will own, what we are looking for, technology environment, location, salary, etc. We need to decide sections: maybe About the role (overview), Responsibilities (what you will own), Requirements/Qualifications (what we are looking for), Skills (maybe technology environment), Benefits (maybe total comp?), Pay (salary range), Schedule (hybrid/remote). Must only include if content present. Let's parse: - Title: CTO/Chief Technology Officer (not heading) - Location choices: #1 NYC, #2 Dallas, TX. In office policy if local: Hybrid terms to be discussed. Remote-friendly within the U.S., with travel for leadership and client engagement as needed (for the right candidate). - Salary: $250-$400 DOE (open for discussion) - Total Comp: To be discussed. Salary, bonus and options - Hierarchy: Report to CEO - Sizes of staff to manage: none at first, but proven experience mentoring and building a development team - Industry: Fintech, Banking, Financial Services Platforms, Start-ups - Private Company - # of Employees: /, no markdown. We'll use

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  About the role

  This is a leadership role as the first Chief Technology Officer for a proven fintech serving 140+ institutional clients, with a workflow platform expanding into payments, data, and AI. The company is a private fintech with under 200 employees, growing fast, and operates in the financial services, banking, and startup space. The CTO will report directly to the CEO and work as a true thought partner to the founding team on product strategy, commercial commitments, and company direction. The position is hybrid‑remote: headquarters in NYC or Dallas, TX, with hybrid terms to be discussed, remote‑friendly within the U.S., and travel required for leadership and client engagement as needed. Citizenship requirement: must be a U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident (Green Card). Education: bachelor’s degree or higher.

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  Responsibilities

  • Scale the organization: design and build the engineering org for the next stage – team structure, management layer, career paths, and operating rhythm.
  • Build the hiring engine: create the recruiting system itself – pipeline, assessment standards, and an employer story that attracts senior engineers.
  • Own delivery and reliability: manage pace and quality of execution across the platform – shipping at startup cadence with the security, uptime, and auditability financial institutions demand.
  • Drive AI transformation – product and organization: set and execute the AI roadmap across products (document intelligence, spend analytics, agentic workflows) and drive AI adoption inside engineering – tooling, standards, and measurable productivity gains – with the governance a payments platform requires.
  • Provide technical judgment through others: set architecture direction and catch risk early via architecture reviews, incident reviews, and staying close to ground truth without writing production code.
  • Champion security and trust: uphold the security posture and compliance readiness expected by hedge funds, private equity firms, and family offices moving real money on the rails.
  • Act as a management partnership: translate between business and technology, shape the roadmap with commercial reality in mind, and give the co‑founders an honest view of engineering capacity and risk.
  Requirements: What We Are Looking For list.

  Requirements

  • Proven scaling track record: taken an engineering organization through the messy middle – growing a strained, fast‑moving team into a structured org (not merely inherited a large, well‑resourced one).
  • Breadth beyond one specialty: owned full engineering scope – application and product engineering, infrastructure, security, and reliability.
  • AI transformation leader: led AI transformation of both product and organization – shipped AI‑powered capabilities that clients actually use and changed how the engineering team builds software with AI; able to distinguish durable AI advantage from demos and implement safely in a regulated, money‑moving context.
  • Builder of hiring systems: personally constructed hiring pipelines and talent brands, rather than relying on a large company's recruiting machinery.
  • Leadership through others: develop managers, delegate real ownership, retain senior talent, hold a high‑performance bar, and earn engineers’ respect without re‑inserting yourself as lead engineer.
  • Technical credibility: deep enough technical grounding that senior engineers trust your judgment, even though you will not write production code.
  • Business fluency: comfortable operating with a commercial lens – pricing, client commitments, partnerships – and communicating with financially sophisticated clients and partners.
  • Experience in fintech, payments, or financial services infrastructure is a strong plus; experience serving institutional or capital‑markets clients is even more so.
  Qualifications: Education/Degrees/Certifications required: Bachelors+. Also maybe mention none at first staff to manage? But that's more about responsibilities. We'll include education.

  Qualifications

  Bachelor’s degree or higher required.

  Skills: Technology Environment.

  Skills

  The platform runs on C#, Python, and Angular with Azure SQL, deployed on Microsoft Azure using Azure DevOps. The team values engineering excellence and is pragmatic about tooling – you should be opinionated about best practices but unreligious about specific technologies.

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. Pay: Salary range.

Pay

Salary range: $250,000 – $400,000 DOE (open for discussion). Total compensation includes bonus and equity options, to be discussed. Actually we should not include Benefits section; but we can mention total comp in Pay? The rule: only include Pay if posting actually states them. It does state salary range. So we can include Pay section with salary. Mentioning total comp maybe okay as it's part of compensation but not a separate Benefits section. We'll keep it brief. Schedule: Hybrid/Remote.

Schedule

Hybrid‑remote arrangement: positions based in NYC or Dallas, TX with hybrid terms to be discussed; remote‑friendly within the U.S.; travel required for leadership and client engagement as needed.

We must ensure we didn't include any boilerplate like application instructions, Q&A, etc. We removed those. Check for any repeated content: we included location in About the role and Schedule; that's okay but not duplicate? It's okay to mention location in both but we might want to avoid duplication. However the rule says preserve ALL substantive information; duplication is not prohibited but we could keep it once. Perhaps better to keep location only in