Job Summary

Our client is building a crypto-native trading platform powered by AI and modern market infrastructure. The goal is simple - create scalable high-performance systems that can support sophisticated participants across global markets. They are now seeking a visionary Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to lead the design architecture and execution of this platform from the ground up.

Role Overview

The CTO will define and execute the companys technology strategy across blockchain systems AI-native product architecture and high-performance trading infrastructure.

This is a hands-on executive role suited to a builder - someone who has architected and scaled complex real-time financial or market-based systems and who understands how to orchestrate AI agents and autonomous systems within production-grade environments.

The ideal candidate has deep experience across crypto and Web3 infrastructure has built or led advanced trading systems and understands mechanism design and market dynamics in digitally native environments.

Key Responsibilities

Technology Strategy & Architecture

Define and execute long-term technology vision aligned with product and business objectives
Architect scalable secure high-availability systems for real-time market environments
Design hybrid architectures spanning centralized matching engines and decentralized settlement layers
Lead technical decisions across blockchain protocols AI infrastructure and cloud architecture

AI & Agentic Systems Leadership

Architect and oversee AI-native systems leveraging autonomous coding agents and LLM-driven orchestration
Design multi-agent frameworks for market modeling automated strategy execution and decision support
Evaluate and integrate LLM infrastructure across edge cloud and fallback tiers
Ensure production-grade reliability observability and cost-optimized inference architecture

Blockchain & Digital Asset Infrastructure

Lead smart contract architecture and protocol design (EVM and/or alternative ecosystems)
Oversee token mechanics settlement layers and on-chain/off-chain coordination
Implement secure upgrade-safe smart contract patterns
Ensure compliance-aligned infrastructure in regulated or semi-regulated environments

Trading & Market Infrastructure

Architect low-latency high-throughput trading systems
Design matching engines auction systems or alternative market mechanisms
Oversee order management pricing logic and risk controls
Ensure scalability across global liquidity environments

Engineering Leadership

We are looking for a technically elite founder-type CTO with:

15 years of engineering experience including deep systems-level development
Proven experience building trading platforms exchanges auction systems or real-time financial infrastructure
Strong blockchain background - Solidity Rust Web3 integrations on-chain settlement logic
Experience designing hybrid centralized/decentralized architectures
Demonstrated experience working with AI-native or agentic engineering environments
Deep understanding of distributed systems caching concurrency and data modelling
Experience operating in regulated financial environments is advantageous
Prior founder or early-stage startup experience strongly preferred

Technical Environment (Indicative)

Smart Contracts - Solidity Rust (Anchor) EVM ecosystems
Backend - TypeScript C# Rust or similar
Frontend - React / modern web frameworks
Cloud - AWS / Azure
Data - SQL NoSQL Redis
AI Stack - LLM orchestration embedding models inference routing multi-provider integration

Profile Traits

Builder mentality - comfortable architecting from first principles
Strong product intuition with UX sensitivity
High velocity low-ego operator
Comfortable managing complexity across AI blockchain and financial systems
Capable of interfacing with institutional partners and investors

If you bring the technical depth builder mentality and execution focus to architect something category-defining this role offers the platform and autonomy to do exactly that. Please submit your CV via the link.

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