Vice President of Engineering
Ctrl Alt is a regulated tokenization infrastructure provider for digital capital markets.
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About Ctrl Alt
Ctrl Alt designs and operates on-chain infrastructure for digital capital markets. Its services combine financial engineering, legal and compliance frameworks, and technology to structure, issue, distribute, and manage tokenized products including real estate, private-market assets, funds, debt, and infrastructure. The company provides bespoke asset structuring, tokenization, API integrations, investor onboarding, compliance workflows, reporting, and on-chain ownership management for institutional and professional clients.
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Candidate Availability
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About the Role
You will lead the engineering organization through its next phase of scale. You will report to the CTO and work closely with leadership across product and operations to turn vision into secure performant and scalable infrastructure. You will shape the technical roadmap scale the engineering team and create a culture of execution autonomy and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- 10+ years of engineering experience, including 2+ years in a senior leadership role
- Experience leading cross-functional technical teams in a startup or scale-up environment
- Strong technical background in backend development, DevOps, or distributed systems
- Proven success scaling teams, hiring engineers, and evolving team structures and processes
- Deep understanding of modern cloud infrastructure such as AWS, CI/CD, and containerisation
- Clear and thoughtful internal and external communication
- Experience working in fintech, regulated environments, or high-trust software platforms
- Familiarity with asset tokenization, blockchain systems, distributed ledger technology, or digital asset custody is desirable
- Experience building APIs, developer platforms, or B2B SaaS products is desirable
- Experience with penetration-tested or compliance-audited systems is desirable
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow a high-performing team of backend, blockchain, DevOps, and frontend engineers
- Define and drive the engineering roadmap in partnership with the CTO and Product leadership
- Ensure technical quality across systems through code reviews, architecture oversight, and process improvements
- Recruit and retain top engineering talent and build hiring processes and career development frameworks
- Champion a culture of ownership, security, and high standards
- Balance speed and stability while managing risk in a regulated and high-trust environment
- Lead the transition to scale-up engineering practices including observability, reliability, automation, security, and documentation
- Represent engineering in cross-functional discussions with product, legal, operations, and clients
- Identify and unblock technical bottlenecks to help the team move efficiently
Benefits
- Generous stock options with equity plans that let you share in company growth
- Private health insurance scheme for UK and Ireland employees
- 24 days annual leave plus public holidays, with flexibility for additional time off
- IT and office equipment including a MacBook, displays, and accessories
- Salary sacrifice scheme and financial tools for personal finances in the UK
- State-of-the-art central office in Belfast or Dundalk
- Annual learning and personal development budget
- Opportunity to contribute to a high-growth startup shaping an industry
- Collaborative working and direct knowledge sharing from experts across financial services, blockchain, and fintech
