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Deputy Chief Technology Officer
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Deputy CTO
Location: Global Hubs (London, Madrid, Brussels, Singapore, New York, Paris) / Remote
Funding: Series C
About The Company
Since 2017, The Company has grown into a leading digital asset market maker and infrastructure provider. Today, our team of 200+ professionals across 42 nationalities powers trading on 80+ exchanges. Operating across Capital Markets and Asset & Wealth Management divisions, we combine algorithmic trading innovation (pioneering Rust in Web3) with institutional-grade financial services. Backed by our recent Series C, we are actively building the future of digital assets through organic innovation and strategic M&A.
Role Overview
The Deputy CTO partners with the CTO to lead the day-to-day operations of The Company’s global engineering organization. You will hold near-executive authority over engineering delivery, operational resilience, organizational health, and budget across all divisions. By connecting business strategy to world-class technical execution, you will ensure our high-frequency trading and asset management platforms scale reliably, freeing the CTO to focus on long-range AI transformation and external representation.
What Success Looks Like (12–18 Months)
- Operational Excellence: A unified engineering cadence (OKRs, KPIs, delivery flow) is consistently adopted across divisions, enabling VPs to operate with high autonomy.
- Platform Modernization: The multi-year trading platform consolidation transitions successfully from design to MVP with clear improvements in latency and deployment velocity.
- Data Governance: A centralized, group-level data capability is live with a published catalog and cross-divisional SLAs.
- Regulatory & Cost Control: Engineering consistently hits all MiCA, DORA, and SOC 2 milestones while managing cloud and vendor spend against clear business-unit baselines.
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Key Responsibilities
- Engineering Delivery & Cadence: Run day-to-day global engineering operations. Own OKRs, monthly business reviews, and delivery pipelines. Deputize for the CTO with the Board, ExCo, and external partners.
- Platform Consolidation & Data Strategy: Lead the multi-year unification of The Company's trading infrastructure across 80+ venues and 1,400+ markets. Oversee the creation of shared group data pipelines and governance.
- Cybersecurity Execution & Compliance: Own the on-the-ground execution of The Company’s security and regulatory commitments (MiCA, DORA, SOC 2). Foster a "controls-by-design" engineering culture while respecting regulated divisional information walls.
- Talent, Budget & Scale: Manage the global engineering budget, vendor relationships, and M&A engineering integrations. Mentor divisional VPs, refine career frameworks, and scale the team across Europe and the US.
Core Competencies
- Scale Operational Leadership: Proven ability to design and run engineering operating models (metrics, governance, delivery) for global teams.
- Technical Depth & Decision-Making: Comfortable challenging senior architects on system design and making decisive, firm-wide trade-offs under constraints.
- Executive Communication: Exceptional ability to translate complex technical risks, budgets, and timelines into crisp, actionable insights for ExCo and the Board.
- Regulatory Execution Fluency: Expert at translating high-level security strategies into practical, everyday engineering workflows and compliance outcomes.
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Key Experiences & Target Background
- Trading & Crypto Infrastructure: Substantial experience with low-latency distributed systems, algorithmic trading infrastructure, and digital assets (CEX/DEX market structure, custody, on-chain settlement). Familiarity with Rust is a strong plus.
- Multi-Division Scale & Consolidation: Proven track record running global engineering across multiple business lines, including executing large-scale platform consolidations and managing shared data/infra functions.
- Regulated Environments: Experience operating within strict regulatory frameworks (MiCA, DORA, SOC 2) and managing engineering across compliance-driven information walls.
- Operational #2 Profile: Prior experience as a trusted senior deputy or operational partner to a technical founder or CTO, taking true ownership of execution while strategy is held by the principal.
- Growth & M&A Integration: Experience scaling engineering organizations through rapid maturity phases and integrating acquired technical teams.
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