Chief Technology Officer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California, +2 more states.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the technical architecture for our data platform, including the warehouse, ingestion pipelines, identity resolution, and a cohesive data model throughout the organization.

• Make foundational infrastructure decisions regarding ETL tools, dbt structure, BI layer, orchestration, and data governance strategies.

• Plan the sequence of platform development to deliver a functional unified dataset within the initial months.

• Define the technical interaction between our consumer application and the data platform, focusing on captured data, identity flow, enrichments, and data returned to users.

• Collaborate with the app engineering team (initially a contractor, transitioning to a full-time employee) on consumer interfaces and event credentialing.

• Ensure that event credentialing is robust enough to handle tens of thousands of users from day one.

• Recruit and nurture the engineering team, emphasizing the importance of automation, simplicity, and delivery before expanding headcount.

• Cultivate an engineering culture that prioritizes code reviews, on-call responsibilities, observability, technical documentation, and maintains a high individual contributor standard.

• Serve as the technical interviewer and bar-raiser for all engineering hires.

• Set and uphold engineering standards across the company, prioritizing practical reference implementations over policy documents.

• Assume responsibility for standards from day one, with a broader technology portfolio consolidating under your leadership as systems evolve.

• Communicate technical constraints to the leadership team in straightforward terms and relay commercial limitations back into engineering planning.

• Establish SOC 2 readiness within a timeline that supports enterprise-grade commercial product offerings.

• Manage GDPR compliance, consent tiering, and right-to-erasure capabilities across the platform from the outset.

• Make vendor and tooling selections that withstand audits and can scale effectively.

• Collaborate with the existing technology team to design and implement future IT infrastructure and promote technical philosophies throughout the organization.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience in software engineering, with a minimum of 3 years serving as the senior-most technical leader at a startup, data-intelligence company, fintech, or media-intelligence organization.

• Demonstrated experience in personally architecting and delivering a data platform that supports a revenue-generating product.

• In-depth, up-to-date knowledge of a modern data stack, including BigQuery or Snowflake, dbt, Fivetran or Airbyte, an orchestrator (such as Airflow or Dagster), and a BI layer (like Looker, Hex, or Metabase).

• Proven track record of hiring and mentoring senior individual contributors in a small, high-trust environment, with no preference for command-and-control management styles.

• Ability to make product and commercial trade-offs, not just technical ones; capable of challenging commercial leadership when necessary due to engineering realities.

• Knowledgeable about Bitcoin or genuinely interested in Bitcoin as a monetary network, the Bitcoin treasury thesis, and the Lightning/x402 stack.

• Strongly preferred: AI native with experience in building consumer mobile applications, agent-facing APIs (MCP, x402), or research/intelligence data products at scale.

🏝️ Benefits

• Unlimited Vacation

• Company MacBook

• Health, Dental, and Vision coverage

• Remote-first work environment with flexible scheduling

• 100% paid Life Insurance and Disability coverage

• Collaborate with a talented and dynamic team to tackle complex challenges

• Opportunity to connect and network within the Bitcoin industry and engage with leaders in the field.