Chief Technology Officer at BTC Inc
United States
$285k - $329k
<meta><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;"><br></p><h1 style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:36pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:1px;margin-top:24px;margin-bottom:4px;padding-left:0px;"><b><strong style="white-space:pre-wrap;">The Role</strong></b></h1><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">We are seeking a product-minded Chief Technology Officer to architect and build the data platform that powers BTC Inc's next generation of products. You will lead the design and delivery of our core data infrastructure and consumer app architecture, own engineering standards across the company, and build the engineering organization behind them. You will report directly to the CEO and operate as a peer to product leadership, sharing one joint platform roadmap.</span></p><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;"><br></p><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">The ideal candidate has personally built, not just managed, a data platform that powers a revenue product. You are a senior IC at heart who has grown into leadership without losing your hands. You read an engineering plan and immediately want to redline it. You are wary of frameworks, transformation roadmaps, and any first-90-days plan that does not include shipping code. You have built or shepherded a modern data stack (BigQuery or Snowflake, dbt, Fivetran, identity resolution, BI) and shipped data products that customers paid for. You are Bitcoin-literate or genuinely curious. You are comfortable being the first engineering hire and the last call on architecture.</span></p><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;"><br></p><h1 style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:36pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:1px;margin-top:24px;margin-bottom:4px;padding-left:0px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">The Work</span></h1><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;"><b><strong style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Platform Architecture</strong></b></p><ul data-pattern="discCircleSquare" data-depth="1" style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;"><li style="font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Own the technical architecture of our data platform: warehouse, ingestion pipelines, identity resolution, and a unified data model across the business.</span></li><li style="font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Make the early infrastructure calls: ETL tooling, dbt structure, BI layer, orchestration, and data governance posture.</span></li><li style="font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Sequence the platform buildout to ship a working unified dataset within the first few months.</span></li></ul><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;"><b><strong style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Consumer App & Data Connectivity</strong></b></p><ul data-pattern="discCircleSquare" data-depth="1" style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;"><li style="font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Define the technical relationship between our consumer app and our data platform: what gets captured, how identity flows, what gets enriched, and what flows back to the user.</span></li><li style="font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Partner with the app engineering team (initially contractor, transitioning to FTE) on the consumer surface and event credentialing.</span></li><li style="font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Ensure event credentialing is production-grade and survives tens of thousands of users on day one.</span></li></ul><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;"><b><strong style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Engineering Leadership & Standards</strong></b></p><ul data-pattern="discCircleSquare" data-depth="1" style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;"><li style="font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Hire and develop the engineering team. Model constraint before headcount: automate, simplify, and ship before you hire.</span></li><li style="font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Establish the engineering culture: code review, on-call, observability, technical writing, and a high IC bar.</span></li><li style="font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Be the technical interviewer and bar-raiser on every engineering hire.</span></li><li style="font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Set and enforce engineering standards company-wide, favoring shipped reference implementations over policy memos.</span></li><li style="font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Own standards on day one; the broader technology portfolio consolidates under you as systems mature.</span></li><li style="font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Surface technical constraints to the leadership team in plain language, and carry commercial constraints back into engineering planning.</span></li></ul><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;"><b><strong style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Security, Compliance & Data Governance</strong></b></p><ul data-pattern="discCircleSquare" data-depth="1" style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;"><li style="font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Stand up SOC 2 readiness on a timeline that supports enterprise-grade commercial products.</span></li><li style="font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Own GDPR, consent tiering, and right-to-erasure capability across the platform from day one.</span></li><li style="font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Make vendor and tooling decisions that survive audit and scale.</span></li><li style="font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Work with existing technology team to architect and enact future IT infrastructure and steward technical philosophies org wide.</span></li></ul><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;"><br></p><h1 style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:36pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:1px;margin-top:24px;margin-bottom:4px;padding-left:0px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Your Experience</span></h1><ul data-pattern="discCircleSquare" data-depth="1" style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;"><li style="font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">10+ years in software engineering, with at least 3 years as the senior-most technical leader at a startup, data-intelligence company, fintech, or media-intelligence business.</span></li><li style="font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Personally architected and shipped a data platform that powered a revenue product.</span></li><li style="font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Deep, current expertise in a modern data stack: BigQuery or Snowflake, dbt, Fivetran or Airbyte, an orchestrator (Airflow, Dagster), and a BI layer (Looker, Hex, Metabase).</span></li><li style="font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Track record hiring and growing senior ICs in a small, high-trust environment; no preference for command-and-control management styles.</span></li><li style="font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Comfortable making product and commercial trade-offs, not just technical ones; able to push back on commercial leadership when the engineering reality requires it.</span></li><li style="font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Bitcoin-literate, or genuinely curious about Bitcoin as a monetary network, the Bitcoin treasury thesis, and the Lightning/x402 stack.</span></li><li style="font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Strongly preferred: AI native with experience building consumer mobile, agent-facing APIs (MCP, x402), or research/intelligence data products at production scale.</span></li></ul><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;"><br></p><h1 style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:36pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:1px;margin-top:24px;margin-bottom:4px;padding-left:0px;"><b><strong style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Additional Benefits</strong></b></h1><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">In addition to working on a meaningful mission in a challenging environment, we also provide the following:</span></p><ul data-pattern="discCircleSquare" data-depth="1" style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;"><li style="font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Unlimited Vacation</span></li><li style="font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Company MacBook</span></li><li style="font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Health, Dental, and Vision</span></li><li style="font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Remote First / Your Schedule</span></li><li style="font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">100% Paid Life Insurance and Disability</span></li><li style="font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Work alongside a talented, fast-paced team solving complex problems</span></li><li style="font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">The opportunity to connect and network with the Bitcoin industry and leaders in the space.</span></li></ul>
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