CTO

About QSentia

QSentia is building an AI powered investment intelligence platform that helps family offices, wealth advisors, hedge funds, and institutional investors deploy institutional grade artificial intelligence through proprietary reinforcement learning, adaptive portfolio risk management, and explainable AI. Our vision is to become the trusted AI infrastructure powering the future of investment management.

About the Role

We are seeking a founding Chief Technology Officer to lead the technical vision and execution of QSentia as we scale from private beta to institutional adoption. You will own our engineering strategy, cloud architecture, platform scalability, security, and technical hiring while partnering closely with the Founder and CEO to build a category defining fintech company.

Responsibilities
Define and execute the long term technology strategy.
Build and lead a world class engineering organization.
Design scalable cloud native infrastructure.
Oversee backend, frontend, APIs, infrastructure, and platform security.
Drive AI platform scalability, reliability, and observability.
Build integrations with brokerages, custodians, and financial institutions.
Recruit and mentor exceptional engineering talent.
Represent QSentia with investors, partners, and enterprise customers.

Qualifications
Ten or more years building enterprise software.
Experience leading engineering organizations.
Strong cloud architecture experience with AWS.
Experience building financial technology, trading systems, or quantitative platforms.
Experience with distributed systems, APIs, Kubernetes, Docker, and modern software architecture.
Experience scaling SaaS products from early stage to production.
Previous startup experience preferred.

Nice to Have
Quantitative finance experience.
AI or machine learning platform experience.
Capital markets, brokerage, or institutional investing experience.

This is an equity only role.