Chief Technology Officer
Skills
About the Role
You will own the technical architecture and roadmap for a mobile-first trading platform. You will design and implement the protocol-level infrastructure, architect the hybrid CLOB + RFQ market structure, and own integration architecture. You will build, scale, and retain engineering teams across blockchain, smart contracts, mobile, and backend, establish engineering processes that balance extreme velocity with security and quality, manage a globally distributed organization, drive core workstreams (trading infrastructure, tokenization and real-world assets, blockchain and protocol, consumer app), present technical strategy to executive leadership, and build clear business cases for engineering investments.
Requirements
- 12+ years in engineering with at least 5 years in VP/CTO/Head of Engineering roles
- Experience building trading systems including perpetuals, spot trading, order matching, or derivatives infrastructure
- Hands-on experience with EVM-based smart contracts and Solidity
- Experience shipping mobile-first consumer apps at scale (React Native or native iOS/Android)
- Cross-functional engineering leadership across blockchain, backend, and mobile
- Familiarity with sports betting or prediction markets infrastructure
Responsibilities
- Define and execute the technical roadmap
- Architect hybrid CLOB and RFQ market structure
- Design protocol-level infrastructure
- Own integration architecture with Crypto.com infrastructure
- Build scale and retain a high-performance engineering team
- Establish engineering culture focused on accountability and velocity
- Implement engineering processes that ensure code quality and security
- Manage a globally distributed engineering team
- Drive trading infrastructure workstream
- Drive tokenization and real-world asset workstream
- Drive blockchain and protocol workstream
- Drive consumer app workstream
- Present technical strategy and progress to executive leadership
- Build business cases for engineering investments