CTO / Tech Lead - Personal Finance Fintech Start-up equity opportunity

Job Description

Our client is a pioneering fintech start-up helping millennials re-define their relationship with money, with the UKs first ever app built for their area of personal finance / investing. The company is 2 years into their journey, secured an initial roundof funding and launched a Beta product working closely with early adopters to further iterate, receiving some great feedback and traction in the process. 2022 will be an exciting year as they go through their next round of funding in Q1 and a full-scale UKroll out, before expansion into the USA in 2023. Theyve also attracted some high profile fintech non-execs and struck a partnership with a top 10 global asset manager, all of which is testament to the pioneering nature of their app - so everything is comingtogether nicely for them! The product has been built and technical environment managed by a technology consultancy, but its time to appoint a CTO who can take full technical ownership and join the founder on the coming high growth journey. The CTO is a keyhire, taking full responsibility for the technical environment from the consultancy, bringing the technical stack in house (front end react native, back end firebase). Whilst its expected youll get hands on with development of the platform, the CTO willalso build the technology team from the ground up to further develop, test, release and support the platform. Owning the product / service architecture strategy and technological roadmap, you will have complete autonomy to ensure the platform scales efficientlyby driving rapid, agile execution of the product roadmap. As you can appreciate its a critical hire for the company as they continue to build a winning product, attract further investment and adopt more users, so looking for the following in the CTO: - Firstlyyou dont need to have held the CTO role in a company, so happy to consider applicants in a team lead role ready to take on the technology leadership role in a small but rapidly growing fintech. - Experience architecting technology solutions from the groundup with the ability to build a world class system architecture that is reliable, secure and scales. - Full stack app development (consumer, personal finance or investing app experience would be ideal). - Experience with automated testing. - An interest infinance would be a bonus. The founder of this validated personal finance fintech has a unique business proposition which is destined for great success with the right team around him, and he appreciates the value of someone joining with the technical playbookin an influential role at this stage in development of the company. So for the right person with the requisite entrepreneurial spirit this really could represent a "once in a lifetime" opportunity to reap both the career and financial rewards of being partof an exciting fintech business venture as the CTO.The role would currently be remote, either in the London area where the founder is, or anywhere in the UK.Keywords: CTO, chief technology officer, technical lead, head of software engineering, head of technology,IT director, chief architect, head of architecture, team lead, fintech, wealthtech. personal finance, consumer finance, open banking.