CTO-Track Software Lead — IC 50% + Equity

Upward Trend; Greater London; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Upward Trend in London seeks a confident, opinionated full‑stack developer who can balance hands‑on coding with strategic tech leadership as CTO. You will work with a small eight‑person team managing $2bn of assets and use advanced AI tools to broaden impact.

You will contribute across Python and TypeScript stacks, build dashboards and internal tools, and ensure robust data governance and security. A meritocratic, flat structure rewards ownership and shipping reliable code.

Qualifications

• Solid engineering background in pre-AI era with adaptation to AI tools.
• Experience with hedge funds or FinTech domain is beneficial.
• Experience leading people while coding hands-on.
• Ability to ship code in a flat, meritocratic team.

Responsibilities

• Develop and ship core features for a small, high-impact team.
• Build internal tools and dashboards to support asset management workflows.
• Collaborate with a London-based eight-person team to set technical direction.
• Ensure data governance and compliance when handling confidential data.

Skills

Python engineering

TypeScript/React

SQL / data modelling

Testing & code review

System design

AI tooling usage

Tools

FastAPI

Django

PostgreSQL

Time-series databases

Claude Code / Copilot

Job description

Upward Trend in London seeks a confident, opinionated full‑stack developer who can balance hands‑on coding with strategic tech leadership as CTO. You will work with a small eight‑person team managing $2bn of assets and use advanced AI tools to broaden impact.

You will contribute across Python and TypeScript stacks, build dashboards and internal tools, and ensure robust data governance and security. A meritocratic, flat structure rewards ownership and shipping reliable code.