Chief Technology Officer (CTO) – Fintech AI Startup

Total Compensation (Salary + Equity): ~$200k

We're a fast-growing fintech startup on a mission to transform Finance. With strong early traction and paying customers, we're looking for a Chief Technology Officer to own our technology vision, scale our engineering team, and help build category-defining AI products.

What You'll Do

• Lead architecture, development, and deployment of our fintech platform.
• Build and optimize enterprise-scale LLM integrations, industry-specific AI pipelines, RAG architectures, and prompt engineering frameworks.
• Oversee the full stack
• Establish engineering best practices, security, and scalability standards.
• Collaborate closely with the CEO and product team to align tech roadmap with business goals.

What We're Looking For

• Proven experience leading high-performing engineering teams in fintech or startup environments.
• Deep hands-on software engineering expertise, now augmented with tools like Cursor.
• Strong understanding of enterprise AI/LLM integrations, retrieval-augmented generation, and prompt engineering.
• Ability to architect scalable, secure, and resilient cloud-based systems.
• A balance of strategic leadership and willingness to roll up your sleeves.

Why Join Us?

• 3-4 days in office Downtown, Toronto
• Early leadership role with significant influence on product and company direction.
• Competitive total compensation: ~$200k (salary + equity) with large equity upside.
• Backed by early customers and strong market demand.

Company DescriptionMust have a computer science degree (or drop out) from a top Canadian or US University
Must have technology and/or startup experienceCompany DescriptionMust have a computer science degree (or drop out) from a top Canadian or US University Must have technology and/or startup experience