CTO of FinTech

Role details

Location: Tokyo, Japan / Hybrid

Role type: Permanent

Language: Business English and above, Conversational Japanese and above

About the role

We are in search of an entrepreneurial CTO to join our founding team that is reshaping the landscape of startup financing. Our fintech platform empowers startups and growth-stage companies to efficiently access, manage, and leverage funds for sustainable growth.

Responsibilities

  • User Empathy: Translating user feedback into tangible, responsive changes in the product. You are obsessed with your customers and have a keen understanding of what they want. You can deconstruct their feedback into product iterations, moving ever closer to the product users need.

  • Agility & Speed: Understanding, deeply, the requisite fidelity of a product at each stage of its development. You are keenly attuned to the importance of gathering user feedback en masse in a product’s early stages, and able to continually iterate and ship MVP versions to gather critical user data.

  • Technical Craft: Designing the technical architecture of the product. You can build a product from scratch and own it through every phase of development and feedback. You know how to make it work well and look good.

  • Product Strategy: Coordinating product development with business. You have a deep understanding of how the product interacts with business goals and can create a long-term vision and roadmap that marries the two.

  • Collaboration Management: Managing interdisciplinary teams to execute well. You understand the complexities of how front-end design interacts with back-end development, and can effectively manage the relationship between teams of designers and developers.

Your Experience

  • Managed and led engineering teams in startups or fast-growing tech firms.

  • Experience in a fintech or similar industry

  • Built product, guided its strategy, and grew it to scale and serve a wide audience

  • Built and led high-performing engineering team(s) with a strong, collaborative team culture. 

  • Decisive and agile; you have strong ideas, but you’re not too proud to change the product based on evidence and feedback

What We Offer

The opportunity to become an owner and builder. You will have a meaningful impact through innovation. We are a people-first culture. You will work with exceptional people providing the opportunity for a steep learning curve. We offer a competitive compensation package and a wide range of benefits.


Key Characteristics for working at WAY include:

  • Relentless optimism. You take setbacks in stride and keep pushing through the challenges of building from scratch.

  • Energy and execution. You outwork and out deliver, contributing to a culture of excellence.

  • Collaboration and respect. You are a team player who works hard for the collective, respects the unique strengths and lived experiences of others, and celebrates victories as shared wins.

  • Being a team player. You work hard so that everyone wins.

  • Growth mindset. You are ready to embrace the unknown rather than be overwhelmed by it. You proactively seek problems and are engineered to build solutions.

  • Grit. You have a deep capacity for focused effort and know how to channel it in the right places.

  • Future focused. You understand where the world is today and want to build businesses that will continue to be relevant in a world 100 years from now.