Chief Technology Officer (Exchange / Predictive Markets)

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, Node.js, 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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