Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
An early-stage digital trust and fraud prevention venture is seeking a hands-on CTO to own its technical and security foundations. The role combines architecture, implementation, engineering leadership, and customer-facing technical engagement, with a potential path to co-founder status based on fit
Обязанности
- Own the end-to-end system and security architecture
- Design authentication, verification, identity, attestation, and key-management mechanisms
- Lead threat modeling and adversarial design for sophisticated attackers
- Make architectural and implementation decisions to mature the product into a production-grade platform
- Lead the existing development team while remaining hands-on in critical technical work
- Represent the technology with customers, design partners, external stakeholders, partners, and investors
- Translate customer feedback into product and architecture decisions
- Build security, privacy, and enterprise readiness into the product
- Make technical decisions shaped by mobile, messaging, and telecom constraints
- Own the technical roadmap and company technical narrative
Требования
- Deep practical experience in applied security or cybersecurity
- Strong knowledge of cryptography, authentication systems, secure protocol design, and threat modeling
- Proven experience architecting and building secure backend or distributed systems
- Hands-on coding and implementation experience in critical technical areas
- Strong architectural judgment and the ability to make consequential decisions in ambiguous environments
- Experience leading a small, high-quality development team with speed and minimal bureaucracy
- Ability to engage senior fraud, security, and technology stakeholders, explain complex architecture clearly, and defend technical decisions
- Comfort working in an early-stage environment with rapid iteration and significant ownership
Будет плюсом
- Experience in fraud prevention, anti-abuse, identity fraud, impersonation, transaction risk, or trust infrastructure
- Experience with telecom infrastructure, messaging platforms, SIP, SMS, CPaaS, carrier signaling, or STIR/SHAKEN
- Mobile security and knowledge of iOS or Android platform constraints
- Experience with identity and authentication infrastructure
- Experience building products for regulated or security-sensitive enterprises
- Experience with banks, financial institutions, security reviews, privacy, GDPR, SOC 2, or related compliance frameworks
Условия и преимущества
- Opportunity to shape the technical foundations of a pre-seed, pre-funding company
- Meaningful ownership of product, architecture, and technical direction
- Potential path to Co-Founder status based on contribution, milestones, and long-term fit
- Work with an experienced founding team in a growing digital trust and fraud prevention market