Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Remote (anywhere in Austria)

The Company is seeking a Chief Technology Officer to own the EU entity’s technology architecture and define clear control boundaries between group services and local infrastructure. Responsibilities include overseeing digital-asset custody, key management, APIs, integrations, monitoring, and nodes; maintaining ICT asset, patching, vulnerability, and security-logging processes; and establishing secure software development, CI/CD, environment separation, and release controls. The CTO will lead major technology incidents, business continuity and disaster recovery testing, and root-cause analysis. The role also involves building and leading local engineering, DevOps, SRE, and IT operations capabilities, while overseeing technical vendors. Candidates should have at least 10 years of experience in software engineering, infrastructure, or cloud environments, including five or more years in hands-on senior technology leadership. Strong experience in at least two of these areas is required: digital-asset custody and key-management infrastructure; trading or fintech infrastructure and APIs; or cloud automation, AWS, Kubernetes, and multi-region disaster recovery. Applicants should also have experience with structured control or regulatory frameworks and be able to review architecture, lead incidents, challenge technical decisions, and produce audit-ready documentation. EU citizenship or valid work authorization and willingness to travel regularly are required.

Hiring Company

WhiteBIT