Remote CTO - FinTech Platform (On-Chain Mortgages & Lending)

Strategic Employment Partners (SEP); New York (NY); Remote; USD 250,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

Strategic Employment Partners (SEP) is recruiting a CTO for a growing fintech that is putting mortgage and private credit on-chain. You will lead the technical integration of a traditional lending business onto the platform and then own engineering and product going forward. This is a build‑phase seat with real ownership, not a maintenance role.

Location: Fully remote in the U.S. Compensation: $250K–$350K base + equity + milestone-based bonus + benefits including employer-paid health coverage

Qualifications

• Must-have: player-coach who still writes code and reviews architecture while leading a team.
• Mortgage or lending technology background (servicing, origination, vendor ecosystem).
• Blockchain fluency to direct and review the work; not required to author smart contracts.
• Experience leading a technical integration after an acquisition.
• Comfortable working with legal and compliance in a regulated environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical integration of a traditional lending business onto the platform.
• Own engineering and product going forward; build-phase ownership.
• Mentor and scale engineering and product teams through growth.

Skills

Hands-on coding

Architecture review

Team leadership

Lending tech

Blockchain fluency

Integration leadership

Tools

Solidity

EVM

Job description

Strategic Employment Partners (SEP) is recruiting a CTO for a growing fintech that is putting mortgage and private credit on-chain. You will lead the technical integration of a traditional lending business onto the platform and then own engineering and product going forward. This is a build‑phase seat with real ownership, not a maintenance role.

Location: Fully remote in the U.S. Compensation: $250K–$350K base + equity + milestone-based bonus + benefits including employer-paid health coverage