Deputy Chief Technology Officer

Stealth Startup; United States; On-site; USD 260,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

The Company in the United States is seeking a Deputy CTO to partner with the CTO and lead the day-to-day operations of its global engineering organization, with authority over delivery, resilience, and budgets.

You will drive platform modernization, data governance, regulatory compliance (MiCA, DORA, SOC 2), and cross-divisional collaboration to scale high-frequency trading and asset management platforms.

Qualifications

• Extensive leadership experience in global engineering organizations.
• Deep expertise in high-frequency trading infrastructure and crypto.
• Proven track record with regulatory frameworks (MiCA, DORA, SOC 2) is a plus.
• Experience partnering with CTO/CEO to drive strategy and execution.

Responsibilities

• Oversee global engineering delivery, cadence, and budgets.
• Lead platform modernization and data governance initiatives.
• Ensure regulatory compliance and security across divisions.
• Mentor VPs and scale teams across regions.

Skills

Operational leadership

Executive communication

Technical depth

Regulatory compliance

Budget & vendor management

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

MBA or advanced degree (preferred)

Tools

Cloud platforms (AWS)

Security/compliance tools

Job description

Funding:

Series C

About The Company

Since 2017, 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.