Strike careers: remote jobs, culture and where they hire

Strike has raised about $83.5M in equity. A $3.5M seed closed in April 2020 with Morgan Creek Digital, CMT Digital and Anthony Pompliano, after the company had been bootstrapped by the Mallers family, and an $80M Series B closed in September 2022 led by Ten31 and joined by Washington University in St. Louis, the University of Wyoming and existing investors; aggregators put the post-money at roughly $300M, which Strike never confirmed. The company says it has been profitable since at least April 2024, when Mallers told Fortune it was growing 100% month over month and sweeping part of its profits into bitcoin; the corporate treasury stood at about 1,500 bitcoin in May 2025, and in a July 2026 letter to investors Mallers wrote that Strike had "remained profitable, expanded our products and global footprint, and built a Bitcoin treasury worth over $100M, even with bitcoin trading roughly 50% below its highs." Strike has also secured a $2.1 billion credit facility to fund its loan book, and in July 2026 confirmed it would remain a standalone business after a proposed combination with Twenty One Capital fell through.

Strike is a Bitcoin-only financial app. Customers buy and sell bitcoin, send money across borders over the Lightning Network, pay bills such as utilities, credit cards and mortgages from a bitcoin balance, route up to 100% of a paycheck into bitcoin by direct deposit, and borrow dollars against their holdings. Businesses get treasury, custody, payments and a REST API through Strike Business, which describes thousands of companies adding bitcoin to their corporate treasury. The app is available in more than 100 countries and territories across the United States, Europe, Latin America and Africa, a footprint Strike says reaches over 3 billion people.

The product grew out of Zap, a non-custodial Lightning wallet started in 2017, and launched as Strike in public beta in July 2020. Strike was the settlement layer behind El Salvador's 2021 move to make bitcoin legal tender, expanded from three countries to 65 in May 2023, launched in Europe in April 2024 and the UK in June 2024, added USDT deposits in nine emerging markets in December 2024, and added Virtual USD Accounts in 60+ countries and the Australian dollar in 2025. Bitcoin-backed loans launched in May 2025: ten months later Strike said thousands of customers across 27 countries had borrowed hundreds of millions of dollars, and a line of credit followed in March 2026, reaching 46 US states for businesses by April.

Jack Mallers, Founder and CEO. Born in Chicago in 1994 into a trading family: his grandfather William Mallers Sr. chaired the Chicago Board of Trade and his father Bill Mallers Jr. founded and sold one of Chicago's largest futures brokerages and introduced him to bitcoin in 2013. He spent a year at St. John's University in New York, dropped out for the Starter School coding bootcamp in Chicago, was a nationally ranked chess player as a teenager, and founded Zap Solutions in 2017 to build a non-custodial Lightning wallet before launching Strike in 2020; Forbes named him to its 30 Under 30 list for 2021. He co-founded Twenty One Capital with Tether and SoftBank in April 2025 and ran it as CEO through its December 2025 NYSE listing while staying Strike's CEO, then stepped down in July 2026 to return to Strike full time.

Strike is one of the few Bitcoin-only companies operating at consumer scale with a regulated footprint: a New York BitLicense and money transmitter license granted in March 2026 completed its expansion to all 50 US states, its Europe entity holds a MiCA license as of June 2026, and it describes itself as one of the most regulated Bitcoin companies in the world. Customer bitcoin and cash balances are held one-to-one and never lent out, and Strike built proof-of-reserves for its lending book so borrowers can verify their collateral sits in segregated on-chain addresses.

The team is small for what it runs, so scope is wide. The Head of Marketing posting says outright that Strike built one of the leading brands in Bitcoin "without building a traditional marketing organization" and that the hire will build one from the ground up, reporting to the CEO; the Trust Designer owns security, identity and KYC experiences across iOS, Android and web as the only designer on the team; backend engineers work on the payment orchestration that Strike calls "one of top engineering teams in the Bitcoin and fintech space." Product velocity is visible from the outside: loans were reworked within three weeks of launch from a $75,000 minimum to $10,000 with no maximum, and the line of credit went from idea to live product in four months.

Strike judges everything against bitcoin. In a 2024 talk the company published on its own LinkedIn page, Mallers described the internal rule for any new initiative: "If some employee of mine wants to start a project or go off and invest in some new idea, the question internally at the company is are you gonna beat Bitcoin?" He called profitability "almost like a moral obligation," said Strike is "not reliant on venture," and noted that over 80% of the balance sheet is held in bitcoin.

Credentials do not count. Every posting ends with the same block: "We do not make hiring decisions based on educational history whatsoever. Our Founder is a college dropout. We employ high school dropouts, PHD candidates and everything in-between. We do not hire credentials." Postings ask for a "team-first approach in a remote work environment."

It is a founder-run company and Mallers says so plainly. In an April 2025 video to staff, filed with the SEC, he told employees: "I remain the founder, the CEO, the largest shareholder, the controller of the board of Strike," and described a leadership bench that had just been promoted into president, finance, general counsel and engineering roles. He communicates through recorded videos and town halls, and when he left Twenty One in July 2026 he wrote: "My life's work remains Bitcoin. My Bitcoin company is Strike. The work continues."

Strike publishes no interview stages; applications go through Greenhouse and postings screen for a demonstrated interest in Bitcoin, self-direction and comfort working across product, engineering and operations in a remote team. The compliance roles ask for hands-on investigative experience plus openness to the AI tooling Strike uses internally, with prior experience explicitly not required.

If nothing fits, there is a standing Open Application: submit once to join the talent network and Strike says it will contact you for future openings. Mallers made the same offer publicly in 2021: "If you don't see your dream job listed, let us know your story and how you can help Strike and #Bitcoin at jobs@strike.me. I hire talented people that work hard and fight for what they believe in. Nothing more, nothing less."