Chief Technology Officer

This ultra-high-growth venture is building a mobile-first, all-in-one decentralised trading platform designed to unify tokenised equities, crypto perps, spot markets and prediction markets into a single cross-collateralised account.
Backed by the scale and regulated infrastructure of one of the Tier-1 exchanges (150M+ global users), the product is positioned to serve markets and continents beyond the constraints of traditional exchange models - particularly across LATAM, SEA and MENA.
This is a greenfield opportunity to architect & ship the hybrid trading engine that underpins the entire platform.

The Mandate:
The business has ~80 engineers across smart contracts, blockchain, DevOps, platform and QA. What’s missing though, is senior architecture leadership in high-performance trading systems and institutional-grade risk infra.
This hire will close the single biggest capability gap: designing and delivering a hybrid on/off-chain trading engine with unified margin and real-time liquidation logic across multiple asset classes.
You will own the technical stack end-to-end, from matching engine to smart contracts to API and mobile integration – whilst leading a global engineering organisation.

What You’ll Build:
Hybrid CLOB & Matching Engine
Architect an off-chain sequencer (Rust) delivering:
• <5ms P50 tick-to-trade latency
• 100K OPS throughput
• Sub-millisecond latency variance
Integrate with EVM-based settlement (sub-60s finality)
Enable routing between on-chain CLOB and RFQ execution
Design the transition toward a fully on-chain global order book
This is not incremental optimisation - it is a new architecture designed for scale and resilience.

Risk Engine & Cross-Asset Margin
Design and execute the full risk stack:
• Cross-asset collateral weighting
• Unified portfolio margin (equities, crypto, prediction markets)
• Initial and maintenance margin logic
• Dynamic risk thresholds
• Real-time netting across correlated instruments
The system must withstand cascading liquidations and correlated drawdowns — not just normal market volatility.

Liquidation & Insurance Infrastructure
• Real-time liquidation engine
• Auto-deleveraging (ADL)
• Onchain-verifiable insurance fund
• Clear governance and deployment rules
Resilience under stress is non-negotiable.

Derivatives & Market Structure
• Perpetual funding rate mechanisms
• Leverage management
• Mark price computation
• Manipulation-resistant oracle integration
• Position lifecycle logic
You should be fluent in derivatives market structure - not just theoretically, but at production scale.

Blockchain & Platform Oversight
• Solidity smart contract architecture
• Clearing house, vault & insurance contracts
• Stablecoin and cross-chain infrastructure
• Embedded wallet design (passkey auth, account abstraction)
• API gateway & SDK
• CI/CD, performance benchmarking, and reliability engineering
This is a full-stack trading CTO role - not a narrow infrastructure post.

The Ideal Background:
We’re targeting senior leaders who have built trading infrastructure at scale. Highly relevant experience includes:
• DEXes such as dYdX, Hyperliquid, Drift Protocol, Vertex Protocol etc.
• CEXes such as Binance, OKX, or Bybit, specifically having worked on derivatives.
• Tier-1 banks, hedge funds, or prop shops where you built equity/FX/rates trading systems before transitioning into crypto
Wallet-only or payments-focused backgrounds are unlikely to be sufficient. The core requirement is deep order book, derivatives, and real-time risk expertise.

Why is This Role Unique?
Greenfield Architecture: You’re not inheriting legacy systems – You get to define the technical foundations.
Immediate Distribution: The product will leverage a global user base and established regulatory infrastructure, not having to build liquidity from scratch.
Strategic Positioning: The platform is designed to serve markets beyond traditional exchange constraints, targeting global “high growth” regions.
Executive Visibility: True C-level role with exposure to senior leadership and direct influence over the company trajectory.
Market Timing: Retail participation in high-volatility assets, prediction markets, and tokenised instruments continues to expand. The infrastructure layer is the bottleneck, this role owns it!

If you have built exchange-grade infrastructure, understand how liquidation cascades propagate under stress, and want to architect the next evolution of hybrid on-chain trading, this is a highly rare opportunity to do so at scale.