Deputy Chief Technology Officer - Trading Firm

Location: Poreta

Deputy Chief Technology Officer - Trading Firm

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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…