CTO — AI-Driven Crypto Trading Infrastructure

Hyphen Connect; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 2,000,000 - 3,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Hyphen Connect is building next-generation AI-driven on-chain trading infrastructure. We seek a CTO to own the entire technical stack—from wallet integration and trading UX to real-time data pipelines and security—guiding a lean, elite AI-native engineering team.

You will craft scalable architecture, enforce robust risk controls, and drive high-integrity systems across venues. You will lead architecture decisions, set engineering standards, and collaborate with a small, hands-on team to ship

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and shipping production systems in crypto trading environments.
• Proven track record of owning and delivering end-to-end, trading-grade features at scale.
• Experience leading small engineering squads or project teams while remaining hands-on.
• Strong modular architecture design capable of scaling with product complexity.
• Proven ability to build resilient systems that handle traffic spikes and volatility.
• Rigorous production discipline: metrics, logs, tracing, alerting, safe fallbacks, and automated recovery.
• Deep familiarity with on-chain realities: finality, gas/fee volatility, MEV/front-running mitigation.
• Experience integrating across venues and protocols where edge cases are frequent.

Responsibilities

• End-to-End Technical Ownership: Own the full technical stack of a trading-grade product—from core wallet integration and trading UX, to execution reliability, real-time data pipelines, risk controls, and platform security.
• System Primitives for Trust: Architect predictable execution under volatility, high-integrity market data pipelines, and clear risk/margin engines.
• Security & Resilience as Engineering Properties: Secure wallet signing flows, harden third-party integrations, implement real-time monitoring and incident readiness.
• Hands-on Architecture & Technical Leadership: Shape a lean, elite team of AI-native engineers who ship fast with high correctness.

Skills

Crypto trading

End-to-end ownership

People leadership

Latency optimization

Security & resilience

AI-native engineering

Architecture design

Job description

Hyphen Connect is building next-generation AI-driven on-chain trading infrastructure. We seek a CTO to own the entire technical stack—from wallet integration and trading UX to real-time data pipelines and security—guiding a lean, elite AI-native engineering team.

You will craft scalable architecture, enforce robust risk controls, and drive high-integrity systems across venues. You will lead architecture decisions, set engineering standards, and collaborate with a small, hands-on team to ship