Chief Technology Officer

Job description

The Role 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. 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. The Work Platform Architecture Own the technical architecture of our data platform: warehouse, ingestion pipelines, identity resolution, and a unified data model across the business. Make the early infrastructure calls: ETL tooling, dbt structure, BI layer, orchestration, and data governance posture. Sequence the platform buildout to ship a working unified dataset within the first few months. Consumer App & Data Connectivity 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. Partner with the app engineering team (initially contractor, transitioning to FTE) on the consumer surface and event credentialing. Ensure event credentialing is production-grade and survives tens of thousands of users on day one. Engineering Leadership & Standards Hire and develop the engineering team. Model constraint before headcount: automate, simplify, and ship before you hire. Establish the engineering culture: code review, on-call, observability, technical writing, and a high IC bar. Be the technical interviewer and bar-raiser on every engineering hire. Set and enforce engineering standards company-wide, favoring shipped reference implementations over policy memos. Own standards on day one; the broader technology portfolio consolidates under you as systems mature. Surface technical constraints to the leadership team in plain language, and carry commercial constraints back into engineering planning. Security, Compliance & Data Governance Stand up SOC 2 readiness on a timeline that supports enterprise-grade commercial products. Own GDPR, consent tiering, and right-to-erasure capability across the platform from day one. Make vendor and tooling decisions that survive audit and scale. Work with existing technology team to architect and enact future IT infrastructure and steward technical philosophies org wide. Your Experience 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. Personally architected and shipped a data platform that powered a revenue product. 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). Track record hiring and growing senior ICs in a small, high-trust environment; no preference for command-and-control management styles. Comfortable making product and commercial trade-offs, not just technical ones; able to push back on commercial leadership when the engineering reality requires it. Bitcoin-literate, or genuinely curious about Bitcoin as a monetary network, the Bitcoin treasury thesis, and the Lightning/x402 stack. Strongly preferred: AI native with experience building consumer mobile, agent-facing APIs (MCP, x402), or research/intelligence data products at production scale. Additional Benefits In addition to working on a meaningful mission in a challenging environment, we also provide the following: Unlimited Vacation Company MacBook Health, Dental, and Vision Remote First / Your Schedule 100% Paid Life Insurance and Disability Work alongside a talented, fast-paced team solving complex problems The opportunity to connect and network with the Bitcoin industry and leaders in the space. About Us BTC Inc. is the parent company of Bitcoin Magazine, The Bitcoin Conference, and Bitcoin for Corporations. Our mission is Hyperbitcoinization , the global adoption of Bitcoin as the world's preferred monetary network. We believe Bitcoin opens the door to a global monetary network free from poor incentives, censorship, and government manipulation. Our journey to success involves decades of complex problem-solving, product development, and service creation in order to onboard billions of people into a future where money is more accessible, borderless, and inclusive. If you enjoy working on challenging problems, fast-paced sprints, and navigating ambiguity, you'll find our mission and type of work inspiring and rewarding.