Chief Product & Technology Officer (CPTO) – Multi-Asset Trading Platform, Dubai
Location: Dubai, UAE (Relocation Supported)
Reports To: Founder & Group CEO
A global multi-asset trading group operating across crypto spot, perpetual futures, FX/CFDs, equities, and institutional API trading is seeking a Chief Product & Technology Officer to take unified ownership of product strategy, trading infrastructure, and engineering organisation build-out. This is a mission-critical executive hire reporting directly to the Group CEO, tied to platform independence, scalability, and enterprise valuation.
The platform is evolving into a consolidated, institutional-grade execution infrastructure supporting high-frequency trading strategies, quantitative models, cross-asset arbitrage, proprietary trading desk deployment, and institutional algorithmic clients. The mandate is to progressively internalise architecture ownership while scaling globally.
This is not a maintenance CTO. This is a trading systems command role.
What You’ll Own
- Unified product strategy & roadmap across all asset classes
- Exchange & brokerage trading infrastructure architecture
- Matching engine optimisation & HFT-compatible infrastructure
- Proprietary trading stack (strategy deployment, kill-switch architecture, real-time PnL attribution, backtesting & simulation)
- Liquidity aggregation, smart order routing & A-Book/B-Book internalisation logic
- Risk, margin & exposure engines including perpetual futures liquidation logic
- Engineering organisation build-out: 30–40+ engineers over 18–24 months
- Vendor governance & progressive internalisation strategy
- Infrastructure & security governance (multi-region AWS, SOC2/ISO 27001, MPC custody)
What You Bring
- 15+ years total experience, 10+ in trading infrastructure or exchange systems
- Built or scaled a live exchange or brokerage platform
- Deep understanding of market microstructure, order book dynamics, and execution quality
- Matching engine architecture exposure (build, optimise, or integrate)
- FIX 4.4/5.0 protocol knowledge
- Derivatives / perpetual futures infrastructure experience
- Prop trading infrastructure exposure (strategy containers, risk isolation, kill-switch logic)
- Liquidity aggregation and multi-venue routing experience
- Tick-level data architecture and backtesting infrastructure
- Managed 30+ engineers across backend, frontend, DevOps, data, security, and QA
- Strong distributed systems and cloud-native architecture expertise
Target Background
Tier 1 crypto exchanges · Institutional FX / prime brokers · Electronic market makers · HFT firms · Prop trading firms with in-house tech · Multi-asset electronic trading platforms
The Ideal Candidate
Thinks in microseconds, not sprint cycles. Understands liquidity economics deeply. Comfortable challenging vendors technically. A board-level communicator who is execution-focused, data-driven, and calm under production pressure.
Your Journey After Applying
- Technical pre-screening questionnaire
- Executive alignment discussion
- Strategic deep-dive with Group Leadership
- Final conversation with the Founder & Group CEO