About

• EMCD is a global crypto infrastructure company powering millions of users worldwide. Our ecosystem combines a top-7 global mining pool, a secure multi-currency wallet, high-yield crypto savings, and an instant P2P exchange - all in one seamless app.
• We're looking for a CTO / Head of Engineering to define and execute the technology strategy of our crypto exchange and lead engineering across backend, frontend, QA, DevOps/SRE and security. You will own the exchange architecture, delivery discipline, and platform reliability in a high-load, security-critical environment.
• What you'll do
• Define the technology strategy and target architecture for the exchange
• Build and evolve the core trading stack: matching engine, order management, risk management, and market data systems
• Establish and enforce security, redundancy, and protection standards; work closely with security leadership to protect data, keys and infrastructure
• Own API strategy and integrations for users, market makers, and partners (payments/custody/liquidity providers)
• Build engineering excellence: CI/CD, testing, monitoring, code review, documentation and technical debt management
• Ensure SLA/SLO ownership, incident management, and post-mortems; plan migrations and platform optimizations
• Lead and grow teams: performance management, mentoring, and a culture of ownership and transparency
• Communicate architecture and progress clearly to stakeholders and partners; manage vendors when needed
• Requirements
• 3+ years as CTO / Head of Engineering / Lead Architect in crypto or trading, with proven delivery of a CEX/trading platform (spot/futures/margin)
• Deep understanding of trading systems: order books, settlement, and risk management
• Experience with high-load backend and microservices; strong leadership and engineering culture building
• Strong grasp of security, redundancy, and compliance requirements
• What We Offer
• We operate as a remote-first company, and you can work from anywhere in the world without location constraints
• Working hours are fully flexible
• We provide extended time off: 20 paid vacation days per year, plus 12 additional bonus days
• Sick leave is fully paid and handled without unnecessary bureaucracy
• We support professional growth by covering the cost of relevant courses, certifications and training programs
• You will have real impact and ownership of meaningful, high-value tasks, along with the opportunity to help shape core infrastructure in the fintech and crypto space
• Corporate pricing for company products and the opportunity to set up your own mining farm using EMCD's infrastructure