Deputy Chief Technology Officer

Stealth Startup; España; On-site; PHP 13,072,000 - 17,429,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

Remote work option

Entrepreneurial team environment

Job summary

The Company is seeking a Deputy CTO to partner with the CTO in leading our global engineering organization. You will own delivery cadence, resilience, and budget across divisions, ensuring scalable, low-latency trading and asset-management platforms while enabling the CTO to focus on AI transformation.

You will drive platform modernization, data governance, and regulatory compliance (MiCA, DORA, SOC 2), align engineering with business strategy, and mentor VPs across Europe and the US to scale

Qualifications

• Proven leadership of global engineering teams.
• Experience with MiCA, DORA, SOC 2 compliance.
• Track record delivering platform modernization and data governance.
• Ability to translate business strategy into technical execution.

Responsibilities

• Run day-to-day global engineering operations and OKRs.
• Lead platform consolidation and data strategy across 80+ venues and 1,400+ markets.
• Oversee cybersecurity execution and regulatory compliance (MiCA, DORA, SOC 2).
• Manage global engineering budget and vendor relationships; mentor VPs.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Operational cadence

Executive communication

Regulatory compliance

Job description

Location: Global Hubs (London, Madrid, Brussels, Paris) / Remote

Funding: Series C

About The Company

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.

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.

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.

Our recruitment philosophy

We value self-awareness and powerful communication skills in our recruitment process. We seek fiercely passionate people who understand themselves and their career goals. We're after those with the right skills and a conscious choice to join our field. The perfect fit? A crypto enthusiast who’s driven, collaborative, acts with ownership and delivers solid, scalable outcomes.

Our offer

• A competitive salary package
• Autonomy in your time management thanks to flexible working hours and the opportunity to work remotely
• The freedom to create your own entrepreneurial experience by being part of a team of people in search of excellence

As an employer we are committed to building a positive and collaborative work environment. We welcome employees of all backgrounds, and hire, reward and promote entirely based on merit and performance.

Due to the nature of our business and external requirements, we perform background checks on all potential employees, passing which is a prerequisite to join. A particularly extensive background check will be required for this role.