CTO/ Chief Technology Officer (Fintech, Banking, Financial, Start-ups)

TITLE: CTO/ Chief Technology Officer

LOCATION CHOICES: #1 NYC. #2 Dallas, TX - Hybrid

Type: Fulltime

What We Are Looking For

• A proven scaling track record. You have 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. This is the single most important qualification.
• Breadth beyond one specialty. You have owned full engineering scope - application and product engineering, infrastructure, security, and reliability - not just one layer of the stack.
• An Al transformation leader. You have led an Al transformation of both product and organization - shipped Al-powered capabilities that clients actually use and changed how an engineering team builds software with Al. You can distinguish durable Al advantage from demos, and you know how to do this safely in a regulated, money-moving context.
• A builder of hiring systems. You have personally constructed hiring pipelines and talent brands, rather than relying on a large company's recruiting machinery.
• Leadership through others. You develop managers, delegate real ownership, retain senior talent, and hold a high-performance bar- and you 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 be writing production code.
• Business fluency. Comfort 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.

TECHNOLOGY ENVIRONMENT

The platform runs on C#, Python and Angular with Azure SQL, deployed on Microsoft Azure with Azure DevOps. Our client is pragmatic about technology: we optimize for what the team can execute and evolve the stack deliberately as we scale. You should be opinionated about engineering excellence and unreligious about tools.