Chief Technology Officer

Understanding Recruitment; Greater London; Remote; GBP 250,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency is seeking a CTO for a Crypto Compliance position to lead engineering strategy and delivery. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in data platforms within fintech scale-ups and strong leadership skills. This role offers significant equity and the opportunity to build a core platform critical for risk and investigations in a fast-paced environment, with remote working options in Europe.

Benefits

Significant equity with clear upside

Fast cycles and founder access

Real traction with paying enterprises

Qualifications

• Proven track record leading engineering in data platform or fintech scale-ups.
• Depth in distributed systems and data.
• Experience in building enterprise-grade platforms.

Responsibilities

• Own engineering strategy and delivery across data, platform, and product.
• Define the multi-chain data architecture and reliability roadmap.
• Scale ingestion and indexing for 30+ blockchains.

Skills

Leadership in engineering

Distributed systems

Clear communication

Hiring and coaching teams

Knowledge of blockchain technology

Job description

CTO | Crypto Compliance x Blockchain Intelligence (Series B)

£250-300k or equivalent + equity + benefits

Remote in Europe. Optional hubs in London, Amsterdam and Dubai.

The mission

Build and scale the platform that helps financial institutions and investigators make sense of on-chain activity. Turn petabytes of multi-chain data into high-signal risk insights, KYT workflows, and investigator tooling. Real customers, eight to nine figure pipeline, recent strategic investment, strong pull to scale.

What you will do

• Own engineering strategy and delivery across data, platform, and product
• Define the multi-chain data architecture and reliability roadmap end to end
• Scale ingestion and indexing for 30+ blockchains, including high-throughput chains
• Operate a secure fleet of full nodes and indexers with clear SLAs and cost controls
• Set SLOs, observability, incident management, and make on call boring
• Build and lead six plus squads. Org design, hiring, mentoring, standards, and SDLC
• Partner with product, compliance, and customers to turn outcomes into roadmap and measurable value
• Raise the bar on security, privacy, and change control for enterprise buyers without killing speed
• Explore applied AI to improve clustering, attribution, and alert quality

What you will bring

• Track record leading engineering in data platform or fintech scale-ups to roughly 0 to 10m ARR and beyond
• Depth in distributed systems and data. You have shipped enterprise grade platforms, not only features
• Proven ability to hire, coach, and set culture in small, high ownership teams
• Clear communication, product instincts, and comfort meeting users and enterprise stakeholders
• Nice to have. Running blockchain nodes and indexers, Solana or EVM depth, workflow engines, authorization models, or knowledge graphs

Why this is worth your time

• Own the core platform that customers rely on every day for risk and investigations
• Significant equity with clear upside as usage and revenue scale
• Fast cycles, founder access, and a mandate to build the engine, the team, and the culture
• Real traction. Paying enterprises, measurable impact, no AI theater

The process

• Screen with People Lead
• Technical and architecture deep dive with CEO and senior engineering leaders
• Final with the founding team and cross-functional partners

Understanding Recruitment is acting as an employment agency for this vacancy.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and provide reasonable adjustments.