Founding CTO - Build Real-Time Trading Infrastructure

Biconomy

Dubai

On-site

AED 600,000 - 1,200,000

Full time

14 days+
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Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours
Annual leave 25 days
Competitive salary
Token allocation
Long-term growth
Small tech team
Team offsites

Job summary

Hypersignals in Dubai is seeking a Founding CTO to own the technical foundation and write critical code. You’ll shape the architecture, lead the engineering team, and make fast decisions in a high-ambiguity environment as the first senior technical hire.

You’ll build real-time low-latency trading infrastructure, manage production cloud deployment, CI/CD, and incident response, while partnering with the founder on long-term bets and build-vs-buy decisions.

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of backend engineering experience.
  • Direct experience building trading exchange or financial systems.
  • Expertise in latency-sensitive architectures and real-time systems.
  • Solid DevOps background with AWS or GCP, Docker, and Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

  • Define and own end-to-end technical roadmap for Hypersignals.
  • Architect and build real-time low-latency trading infrastructure.
  • Design core platform systems for live positions and PnL tracking.
  • Own production infra, cloud deployment, CI/CD and incident response.
  • Lead early engineering hires and shape engineering culture.

Skills

Backend engineering
Trading systems
DevOps
AWS
GCP
Docker
Kubernetes

Tools

AWS
GCP
Docker
Kubernetes

Job description

Hypersignals in Dubai is seeking a Founding CTO to own the technical foundation and write critical code. You’ll shape the architecture, lead the engineering team, and make fast decisions in a high-ambiguity environment as the first senior technical hire.

You’ll build real-time low-latency trading infrastructure, manage production cloud deployment, CI/CD, and incident response, while partnering with the founder on long-term bets and build-vs-buy decisions.

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