Deputy Chief Technology Officer - Trading Firm

As Deputy Chief Technology Officer at Stealth, you partner with the CTO to lead day-to-day operations of the company's global engineering organization. You hold near-executive authority over engineering delivery, operational resilience, organizational health, and budget across all divisions. By connecting business strategy to world-class technical execution, you ensure high-frequency trading and asset management platforms scale reliably, freeing the CTO to focus on long-range AI transformation and external representation.

What you'll do

• Run day-to-day global engineering operations, own OKRs and monthly business reviews, manage delivery pipelines, and deputize for the CTO with the Board, ExCo, and external partners.
• Lead the multi-year unification of Stealth's trading infrastructure across 80+ venues and 1,400+ markets, and oversee the creation of shared group data pipelines and governance.
• Own on-the-ground execution of Stealth's security and regulatory commitments (MiCA, DORA, SOC 2), foster a controls-by-design engineering culture, and respect regulated divisional information walls.
• Manage the global engineering budget, vendor relationships, and M&A engineering integrations; mentor divisional VPs, refine career frameworks, and scale the team across Europe and the US.

What you bring

• Proven ability to design and run engineering operating models (metrics, governance, delivery) for global teams.
• Comfort challenging senior architects on system design and making decisive, firm-wide trade-offs under constraints.
• Exceptional ability to translate complex technical risks, budgets, and timelines into crisp, actionable insights for executive and board leadership.
• Expert fluency at translating high-level security strategies into practical, everyday engineering workflows and compliance outcomes.
• Substantial experience with low-latency distributed systems, algorithmic trading infrastructure, and digital assets (CEX/DEX market structure, custody, on-chain settlement).
• Proven track record running global engineering across multiple business lines, including large-scale platform consolidations and managing shared data and infrastructure functions.
• Experience operating within strict regulatory frameworks (MiCA, DORA, SOC 2) and managing engineering across compliance-driven information walls.
• Prior experience as a trusted senior deputy or operational partner to a technical founder or CTO, taking true ownership of execution.
• Experience scaling engineering organizations through rapid maturity phases and integrating acquired technical teams.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Rust.

What we offer

• Competitive base salary at the top of the market for elite engineering leadership in the proprietary trading and HFT space.
• Significant stock option participation, giving you a vested stake in the long-term success and growth of the firm.
• Highly lucrative, discretionary annual performance bonus tied directly to firm and individual impact.
• Fully remote, hybrid, or premium office-based working options with seamless global mobility across international office hubs.
• Executive technology budget for a bespoke, ultra-high-end remote engineering and trading workstation.
• Full statutory benefits, pension contributions, and leave entitlements tailored to your country of residence.
• Fully funded company offsites and leadership retreats; regular regional team events and socials.

About Stealth

Since 2017, Stealth has grown into a leading digital asset market maker and infrastructure provider, with a team of 200+ professionals across 42 nationalities powering trading on 80+ exchanges. Operating across Capital Markets and Asset and Wealth Management divisions, the company combines algorithmic trading innovation (pioneering Rust in Web3) with institutional-grade financial services. Backed by a recent Series C, Stealth is actively building the future of digital assets through organic innovation and strategic M&A.