CTO - HyperSignals

Department: Engineering

Location: Dubai

Employment Type: FullTime

About Hypersignals

Hypersignals is building a perpetual trading platform focused on execution, transparency, and reliability.

The product is social and signal-driven, with live positions and real-time trade replication. The technical challenge is building systems that remain fast and correct under load and during market volatility.

We’re early-stage and technical by default. There’s no legacy stack, no bloated roadmap, and no separation between “product” and “engineering.” The goal is to build a small, highly capable team that can ship and operate serious trading infrastructure from first principles.

The Role

We’re hiring a Founding CTO to take full ownership of Hypersignals’ technical foundation.

You’ll be the first senior technical hire and responsible for how the system is designed, built, and run in production. This is not a management-only role — you’ll be writing critical code, reviewing every major system decision, and setting the standard for how engineering operates.

You’ll work directly with the founder day-to-day. Decisions are fast, scope is real, and priorities will change as we learn. The expectation is that you’re comfortable operating with ambiguity, making trade-offs, and taking responsibility when things break.

If you’ve built or operated trading systems before and want end-to-end ownership rather than a narrow slice, this role is designed for that.

What You’ll Be Doing

You’ll define and own the end-to-end technical roadmap for Hypersignals.

This includes:

• Translating product vision into system architecture, technical milestones, and execution plans

• Architecting and building real-time, low-latency trading infrastructure, including:

  • Order routing and execution

  • Risk checks and safeguards

  • Trade mirroring and execution guarantees

• Designing and evolving core platform systems for:

  • Live positions and PnL tracking

  • Real-time feeds and event-driven workflows

• Owning production infrastructure and reliability:

  • Cloud architecture and deployment

  • CI/CD, monitoring, and incident response

• Making high-stakes trade-offs around performance, correctness, and user safety, particularly during periods of extreme market volatility

• Partnering directly with the founder on:

  • Product prioritisation and sequencing

  • Build vs buy decisions

  • Long-term technical bets

• Building and leading the engineering organisation, including:

  • Hiring early engineers

  • Mentoring and coaching

  • Defining engineering culture, standards, and ways of working
    
    

What We’re Looking For:

• 7+ years of backend engineering experience

• Direct experience building trading, exchange, or financial systems

• Strong understanding of:

  • Order books, matching engines, and execution flows

  • Risk management and margin systems

  • Latency-sensitive architectures

• Experience running real-time production systems

• Solid DevOps background:

  • AWS or GCP

  • Docker and Kubernetes

  • CI/CD and monitoring

What We Offer

• Flexible working hours – autonomy over how you structure your time

• 25 days annual leave plus public holidays

• Competitive salary, with regular performance reviews

• Token allocation as part of the overall compensation package

• Long-term growth – early ownership in a new product with room to scale responsibility

• Small, technical team working at the intersection of Web3, AI, and DeFi

• Team offsites and informal socials, including retreats and virtual sessions