CTO
First technical hire for a new regulated finance venture inside the METCAP group. No code exists yet. You design the system, write the first version and then build the organisation that takes it global.
The platform is assembled, not built from scratch. We rent proven infrastructure for the commodity layers and own what matters: the ledger, the data model and the intelligence on top. The hard problems are in the joins between systems: exactly-once money movement across systems you do not control, reconciliation that always closes, and failure handling when a provider goes down mid-transaction.
We are building an AI-native company, not a company that uses AI. Agents write, test and operate. Humans design, review and decide. This applies to engineering first, then to operations, compliance and support. You design that operating system for the whole company, not just the codebase.
This is not a solo-builder role. The first months are hands-on. After that, your output is measured by what your teams ship: multiple markets, multiple products, one platform. We want someone whose ambition is to build an engineering organisation with global reach, not to stay the best individual contributor in the room.
- Architecture, and every build-versus-rent decision
- The first version, hands-on
- The agent-driven engineering system: how work is specified, generated, evaluated and shipped
- Building and leading the engineering organisation: who you hire, how teams are structured and the standard they work to
- The technology relationship with banks, partners and regulators
- You have run production systems that move real money, and you know what it takes for them never to be wrong
- You think in systems: failure modes, invariants and interfaces first, features second
- You already build with agents daily, and you have opinions on evals, guardrails and where agents fail
- You have built teams before. Good engineers have followed you from one company to the next, and people you hired now lead teams of their own
- You want scale. You would rather build a company that ships across markets than a product you maintain alone
A meaningful founder-level option scheme and a top-of-market salary. You work directly with the founder. There is no committee.
Three lines on the hardest system you have shipped, plus CV or GitHub, to info@metcap.eu, subject "CTO". No cover letter.
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