CTO HyperSignals

About Hypersignals

Hypersignals is building a perpetual trading platform focused on execution transparency and reliability.

The product is social and signal-driven with live positions and real-time trade replication. The technical challenge is building systems that remain fast and correct under load and during market volatility.

Were early-stage and technical by default. Theres no legacy stack no bloated roadmap and no separation between product and engineering. The goal is to build a small highly capable team that can ship and operate serious trading infrastructure from first principles.

The Role

Were hiring a Founding CTO to take full ownership of Hypersignals technical foundation.

Youll be the first senior technical hire and responsible for how the system is designed built and run in production. This is not a management-only role youll be writing critical code reviewing every major system decision and setting the standard for how engineering operates.

Youll work directly with the founder day-to-day. Decisions are fast scope is real and priorities will change as we learn. The expectation is that youre comfortable operating with ambiguity making trade-offs and taking responsibility when things break.

If youve built or operated trading systems before and want end-to-end ownership rather than a narrow slice this role is designed for that.

What Youll Be Doing

Youll define and own the end-to-end technical roadmap for Hypersignals.

This includes:

• Translating product vision into system architecture technical milestones and execution plans

• Architecting and building real-time low-latency trading infrastructure including:

  • Order routing and execution

  • Risk checks and safeguards

  • Trade mirroring and execution guarantees

• Designing and evolving core platform systems for:

  • Live positions and PnL tracking

  • Real-time feeds and event-driven workflows

• Owning production infrastructure and reliability:

  • Cloud architecture and deployment

  • CI/CD monitoring and incident response

• Making high-stakes trade-offs around performance correctness and user safety particularly during periods of extreme market volatility

• Partnering directly with the founder on:

  • Product prioritisation and sequencing

  • Build vs buy decisions

  • Long-term technical bets

• Building and leading the engineering organisation including:

  • Hiring early engineers

  • Mentoring and coaching

  • Defining engineering culture standards and ways of working
    
    

What Were Looking For:

• 7 years of backend engineering experience

• Direct experience building trading exchange or financial systems

• Strong understanding of:

  • Order books matching engines and execution flows

  • Risk management and margin systems

  • Latency-sensitive architectures

• Experience running real-time production systems

• Solid DevOps background:

  • AWS or GCP

  • Docker and Kubernetes

  • CI/CD and monitoring

What We Offer

• Flexible working hours autonomy over how you structure your time

• 25 days annual leave plus public holidays

• Competitive salary with regular performance reviews

• Token allocation as part of the overall compensation package

• Long-term growth early ownership in a new product with room to scale responsibility

• Small technical team working at the intersection of Web3 AI and DeFi

• Team offsites and informal socials including retreats and virtual sessions

Required Experience:

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