Job Title: Fractional CTO
Location: Hybrid (UK-based preferred)
Engagement: Fractional
Start Date: ASAP
Sector: Fintech / Pensions
About Compound
Compound is a modern pension platform designed to empower individuals to grow their retirement savings—and help employers and accountants turn pensions from a sunk cost into a valuable benefit. Backed by a strong founding team with deep expertise in finance, compliance, and product, we’re now seeking an experienced Fractional CTO to act as a technical counterbalance and trusted advisor as we scale.
The Role
We’re looking for a no-nonsense, experienced Fractional CTO to be our technical right hand—the person who keeps our tech on track and our developers accountable. We’re not technical founders, and we need someone we trust to bridge the gap between us and our developers, making sure what’s being built is robust, scalable, and aligned with business goals.
This is not a hands-on coding role, but a strategic technical leadership role, acting as the interpreter, translator, and enforcer between the business and the tech.

Responsibilities

• Act as a check and balance between the founding team and our developers.
• Hold our developers accountable—ask the tough questions, review plans, timelines, and implementations, and flag issues early.
• Translate technical decisions into business implications (and vice versa).
• Help us hire and vet future developers and technical partners as we grow.
• Provide oversight and guidance on architecture, dev processes, and infrastructure (but not day-to-day coding).
• Ensure everything being built is secure, scalable, and production-ready.
• Help us stop worrying about whether what’s being built will actually work.

What We’re Looking For

• A seasoned technical leader with prior CTO or senior engineering leadership experience, ideally in early-stage fintech.
• Strong experience working with non-technical founders—you know how to communicate clearly and cut through tech jargon.
• Someone who’s comfortable being direct and decisive, especially when things aren’t up to scratch.
• Experience in compliance-heavy or regulated industries (ideally pensions, investments, or similar).
• Proven ability to vet and manage third-party dev teams, ensuring delivery and code quality.
• Bonus: Experience with pension tech, SIPP platforms, or UK financial infrastructure.

What You Get

• A meaningful part in building a fintech company from the ground up.
• Flexible, remote working setup.
• A collaborative team that values straight-talking and decisive action.
• Equity and/or competitive fractional day rate depending on experience.

Job Type: Part-time
Pay: £60,349.47-£157,350.01 per year
Expected hours: 8 – 16 per week

Benefits:

• Employee stock ownership plan
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Work from home

Work Location: In perso

• Act as a check and balance between the founding team and our developers.
• Hold our developers accountable—ask the tough questions, review plans, timelines, and implementations, and flag issues early.
• Translate technical decisions into business implications (and vice versa).
• Help us hire and vet future developers and technical partners as we grow.
• Provide oversight and guidance on architecture, dev processes, and infrastructure (but not day-to-day coding).
• Ensure everything being built is secure, scalable, and production-ready.
• Help us stop worrying about whether what’s being built will actually work