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<li>Location: Kassel , Germany </li>
<li>Work Policy: Remote-first within Germany; optional office days; not advertised as fully remote internationally   </li>
<li>Work Experience: Several years in a CTO/VP Engineering (or similar) role within FinTech or banking   </li>
<li>Language Requirement: English C1, German C1 </li>
<li>Employment Type: Full-time</li>
<li>Technical Skills Required: Engineering Management, Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), REST/GraphQL APIs, data analytics &amp; AI/ML stacks, banking security &amp; compliance frameworks </li>
<li>Industry: FinTech/Data Analytics for Banking   </li>
<li>Positions Available: 1</li>
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<p>Company Mission</p>
<p>Account transaction data reflects the entirety of a customer's life—we help our partners understand this data quickly, easily, and efficiently, and leverage it profitably.</p>
<p>Core Values</p>
<p>Scope to Shape Your Role:</p>
<p>High level of personal responsibility, open communication, active involvement in shaping the business, and a motivated, success-oriented team</p>
<p>Flexible Work:</p>
<p>Remote-first with hybrid options, flexible working hours, modern equipment, "workation" opportunities—plus time off on December 24th and 31st</p>
<p>Tech &amp; Innovation:</p>
<p>Modern tech stack and AI-driven culture</p>
<p>Attractive Perks:</p>
<p>Annual bonus, gifts for work anniversaries and milestone birthdays, corporate benefits program, discounted mobile phone plans, company pension contributions exceeding statutory requirements, capital-forming benefits, and automatic salary adjustments at fixed intervals</p>
<p>Health &amp; Mobility:</p>
<p>Commuter pass, bike leasing, and discounted fitness &amp; wellness offers in your city (egym)</p>
<h2>Tasks</h2>
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<li>You position the company as a pioneer of data-driven business models in Europe and help define how the financial industry of tomorrow will utilize data</li>
<li>You actively drive the company’s technological vision—ranging from new technologies to entirely new product concepts—while maintaining a consistent customer-centric focus</li>
<li>You independently conduct sales discussions at the C-level, inspiring decision-makers with your technological foresight and a clear understanding of the business value for them</li>
<li>You collaborate with our customers to identify new use cases and develop viable business ideas and models based on our existing capabilities</li>
<li>You own the technology roadmap, prioritizing initiatives clearly and based on data to ensure engineering and product teams focus on the areas that deliver the greatest impact.</li>
<li>You work closely with our founder and executive leadership as a strategic partner, actively shaping fino’s strategic direction</li>
<li>You measure the success of your decisions using clear metrics and consistently derive the next steps from those insights</li>
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<h2>Requirements</h2>
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<li>You bring several years of experience in a CTO, VP of Engineering, or comparable technical leadership role, ideally within the FinTech or banking sector</li>
<li>You possess an entrepreneurial and visionary mindset, a keen sense for emerging technologies, and the ability to independently derive promising business models from them</li>
<li>You are characterized by a strong hands-on mentality and genuinely enjoy championing and advancing your ideas directly in client discussions</li>
<li>You communicate clearly and persuasively with clients, your team, and executive management—including at the decision-maker level</li>
<li>You possess a deep technical understanding of modern cloud architectures, APIs, data analytics, and AI, as well as the security and regulatory requirements of the banking industry</li>
<li>You are fluent in German and English (negotiation level) and—given our ongoing European expansion—ideally possess additional foreign language skills</li>
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<h2>Benefits</h2>
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<li>Key role in positioning the company as a European pioneer of data-driven business models and significantly shaping the tech vision.</li>
<li>Direct collaboration with the founder and CEO offers great strategic scope and quick decisions.</li>
<li>Mixture of technology leadership and customer-centered business development enables high impact right up to your own C-level sales.</li>
<li>Remote-first with 5 home office days, flexible working hours and workation option creates maximum freedom and work-life balance.</li>
<li>Modern cloud, API and AI tech stack as well as strong AI culture promote continuous learning and innovation.</li>
<li>Attractive package: fixed salary, individual annual bonus, 28 vacation days plus December 24th/31st free, job ticket, bike leasing, egym and much more.</li>
<li>Medium-sized, unbureaucratic environment with regular team events and dog-friendly Kassel office strengthens cohesion and ownership.</li>
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<p>Why Work With Them</p>
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<li>Strategic freedom to shape a market-leading FinTech</li>
<li>Direct impact on European expansion</li>
<li>Modern AI-first stack</li>
<li>Remote-first flexibility without corporate red tape</li>
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