Chief Product & Technology Officer (CPTO) - Multi-Asset Trading Platform

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

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• 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)

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• 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.