Your responsibilities

📍Team Leadership: lead and mentor the engineering team, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and accountability. 📍Hiring: lead the hiring, onboarding, and mentoring process to bring new engineers on board with access to help from Swan’s recruiting and HR practice. 📍Strategy and Roadmap: Develop and implement a cohesive technology strategy and roadmap to achieve a highly compliant financial institution, integrating industry best practices. Oversee the development and maintenance of our technology infrastructure, ensuring robustness, scalability, and compliance with regulatory standards. 📍Custody integrations: Ensure the seamless integration of Bitcoin asset management platforms, cold storage HSMs, and similar. 📍Vision: Stay abreast of emerging trends and technologies in the Bitcoin and financial sectors, and work closely with our talented team of Bitcoin core developers, security engineers, and product managers to develop a vision for multi-institutional custody, inheritance management, and other Bitcoin native implementations. 📍Risk Management: Work closely with the management team and board to mitigate risks to the company, ensuring our systems are resilient against digital threats and aligned with industry best practices, in partnership with the CSO/CISO. 📍Incident Response Leadership: Develop, oversee, and periodically refine the company's SRE and incident response strategy in partnership with the security team. Drive regular training sessions for team members, ensuring a cohesive and effective response to incidents. 📍External Relations Management: Lead the company’s engagement strategy with vendors and partners. Assess vendor suitability for implementation. Engage with CTO and product/engineering counterparts at partners. Business Continuity: Develop, implement, and regularly exercise a cohesive backup and disaster recovery strategy. 📍Executive Briefings and Consultation: Serve as the company’s senior staff on technology matters. Periodically provide insights, recommend strategies, and emphasize best practices to the management team and/or board.

Skills and experience that will help you succeed

📍Proven experience as a CTO or in a similar leadership role, with a history ranging from startups to regulated financial environments. Department level leadership at larger institutions may be acceptable. 📍Hands-on experience leading engineering teams and developing tech strategies. 📍Heavy experience in cloud-based infrastructure (Azure, AWS, GCP). 📍Strong background in a regulated financial setting such as a trust company, bank, or other financial institution. 📍Deep understanding of Bitcoin and digital asset management infrastructure. 📍Excellent leadership and team-building skills. 📍Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities. 📍Excellent communication skills, capable of effectively articulating technology strategy to a diverse range of stakeholders. 📍Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. 📍This is a USA-based W-2 employment role.