Vice President of Engineering
Combining groundbreaking technology and expert financial engineering, Ctrl Alt is a leading tokenization infrastructure provider that makes structuring and investing in alternative asset classes efficient, cost-effective, and accessible.
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About Ctrl Alt
Ctrl Alt is a financial technology company launched in 2022, specializing in providing tokenization infrastructure for alternative assets such as private equity, real estate, and private credit. By combining advanced technology with financial engineering, the company makes structuring and investing in these asset classes more efficient, accessible, and cost-effective for its clients, which include investors, asset managers, and institutions like governments and fintechs. Ctrl Alt's platform enables benefits such as increased liquidity, fractional ownership, and enhanced transparency. The company operates with a team of experts from major financial institutions and has offices in the UK, Ireland, and the UAE. It is regulated in the UK by the FCA (as an Appointed Representative) and licensed by Dubai's Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA). Notable achievements include tokenizing the first house in the UK and participating in the Bank of England’s Digital Securities Sandbox.
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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 (e.g. Head of Engineering, Director, or Site Lead)
- 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 in scaling teams, hiring engineers, and evolving team structure/processes
- Deep understanding of modern cloud infrastructure (e.g. AWS, CI/CD, containerisation)
- Clear and thoughtful communication: internally and externally
- Experience working in fintech, regulated environments, or high-trust software platforms
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—building hiring processes and career development frameworks
- Champion a culture of ownership, security, and high standards
- Balance speed and stability—shipping fast while managing risk in a regulated and high-trust environment
- Lead the transition from early-stage to scale-up engineering practices: observability, reliability, automation, security, documentation
- Represent engineering in cross-functional discussions with product, legal, operations, and clients when needed
- Identify and unblock technical bottlenecks to help the team move efficiently
Benefits
- Generous stock options with equity plans that let you share in the company growth
- Private health insurance premium private health insurance scheme UK IRE only
- We offer 24 days annual leave plus public holidays with flexibility for additional time off
- IT and office equipment to support your work including a MacBook displays and accessories
- Salary sacrifice scheme and financial tools to help you with your personal finances covering childcare groceries tech pensions bikes and subscriptions UK only
- A state of the art central office in Belfast or Dundalk
- An annual learning and personal development budget for training exams certifications qualifications or anything else which helps you progress at work and your career
- The opportunity to work in a high growth startup where your contribution matters and shapes an industry
- Exposure to collaborative working and direct knowledge sharing from experts across financial services blockchain and fintech