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Job Description About the Company We are a venture-backed startup at the intersection of consumer finance, small-business lending, and real estate. Our mission is to build a modern platform for automated underwriting and commercial mortgage products—making access to capital simpler, faster, and more transparent. With experienced leadership, strong legal foundations in place, and a significant runway secured, we're poised to bring a transformative product to market. The Role We are seeking a Founding CTO to join as a true partner. This is a hands-on builder role where you will architect and develop the underwriting engine and consumer-facing platform while helping set product strategy, working with investors, and scaling the technical team. You should be just as comfortable shipping code as you are shaping boardroom strategy. What You'll Do * Build & Architect: Lead development of our automated underwriting engine and lending platform, with Python as the core foundation. * Hands-on Development: Write production-level code—you'll be the most technically skilled person in the room early on. * Product Development: Partner with business leadership to design and launch consumer-facing apps and SMB financial tools. * Fundraising & Investor Relations: Leverage your experience supporting $10M+ raises to partner with the CEO in securing and managing capital. * Team Growth: Hire and mentor engineers and product talent as we scale from ~12 to 20+. * Strategy & Execution: Translate a massive market opportunity into a scalable, secure technical vision. What We're Looking For * Python Expert: Deep hands-on experience building production systems in Python (Django, Flask, or FastAPI). * FinTech Experience: Background in consumer finance, small-business lending, or real estate finance. * Underwriting Systems: Familiarity with automated underwriting, credit modeling, and risk scoring. * Startup Leadership: Proven track record as an early engineer, CTO, or technical founder in a high-growth startup. * Capital Raising: Has directly supported or led fundraising efforts of at least $10M. * Product Launch: Experience bringing new products to market in regulated or finance-adjacent spaces. * Investor-Ready: Skilled at working directly with investors, boards, and external stakeholders. * Culture Builder: Ability to create and sustain a high-performance engineering and product culture. Why Join * Partner-Level Role: Equity and leadership that reflect your role as a co-builder. * Big Market Opportunity: Commercial mortgages are primed for disruption. * Endless Runway: Secure financial foundation and leadership team already in place. * Impact: Your work defines the future of the product, the company, and a key segment of the finance industry. Current / Recommended Tech Stack * Backend: Python (Django / Flask / FastAPI) * Front-end: React (or similar modern JS framework) * Data / Underwriting Models: Python ML/AI libraries (Pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, PyTorch/TensorFlow for credit modeling & risk) * Database: PostgreSQL (primary), Redis (caching) * Infrastructure: AWS / GCP (cloud-native, containerized with Docker/Kubernetes) * APIs: REST & GraphQL microservices, third-party integrations (credit, KYC/AML, financial data providers) * Compliance & Security: CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, SOC2/PCI-ready frameworks

Job DescriptionCompany Description BHFT is a proprietary algorithmic trading firm. Our team manages the full trading cycle, from software development to creating and coding strategies and algorithms. Our trading operations cover key exchanges. The firm trades across a broad range of asset classes, including equities, equity derivatives, options, commodity futures, rates futures, etc. We employ a diverse and growing array of algorithmic trading strategies, utilizing both High-Frequency Trading (HFT) and Medium-Frequency Trading (MFT) approaches. Looking ahead, we are expanding into new markets and products. As a dynamic company, we continuously experiment with new markets, tools, and technologies. We’ve got a team of 200+ professionals, with a strong emphasis on technology—70% are technical specialists in development, infrastructure, testing, and analytics spheres. The remaining part of the team supports our business operations, such as Risks, Compliance, Legal, Operations and more. Our employees are located all around the world, from the United States to Hong Kong. Although we maintain office spaces, we currently operate as a 100% remote organization. At BHFT, clarity and transparency are at the core of our culture: we value open communication, ensuring that our processes are straightforward. Job Description We are seeking an experienced ML-driven Alpha Researcher / Feature Engineer who thrives at the intersection of fast-paced markets, data science, and collaboration. This role is ideal for someone who can move quickly from idea to execution—transforming complex datasets into predictive trading signals that capture short-term market opportunities. You’ll work alongside a highly skilled modeling and execution team, ensuring that your research ideas don’t stay in theory but turn into real, monetized strategies. Key Responsibilities: • Perform rigorous, time-sensitive applied research across diverse data sources—including high-frequency market data and alternative datasets—to uncover systematic anomalies., • Design and engineer predictive features that can be rapidly tested and deployed into production strategies., • Lead and contribute to end-to-end signal research workflows: data sourcing, cleaning, feature engineering, signal generation, backtesting, and validation., • Partner closely with modeling and execution teams to ensure signals are integrated, stress-tested, and monetized efficiently. Qualifications • Bachelor, Master’s or PhD in Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Engineering, Financial Engineering, Computer Science, or related field from a top-tier institution., • 5+ years of quantitative research experience with systematic strategies in liquid markets (equities, futures, options); intraday trading expertise is strongly preferred., • Proven ability to deliver alpha: signals that translate to real trading profits, not just backtest curves., • Expert-level Python skills (Pandas, SciPy, NumPy, Polars); ability to write clean, efficient, and scalable code., • Strong collaborative mindset: thrives in team environments, communicates clearly, and moves fast without compromising rigor., • High sense of ownership, urgency, and accountability. Additional Information What we offer: • Experience a modern international technology company without the burden of bureaucracy., • Collaborate with industry-leading professionals, including former employees of Tower, DRW, Broadridge, Credit Suisse, and more., • Enjoy excellent opportunities for professional growth and self-realization., • Work remotely from anywhere in the world with a flexible schedule., • Receive compensation for health insurance, sports activities, and non-professional training.