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# Head of Engineering / CTO

- **Company:** Class Valuation, LLC
- **Location:** Chicago, IL, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Continuous Integration, Distributed Systems, Software Engineering, Legacy Systems
- **Published:** August 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/1981b1fd-5608-47fd-9578-bccc96431533

## About the Role

Senior engineering leadership experience within trading, big tech, infrastructure, or high-scale startup environments

 * Strong track record leading large engineering organisations and driving technical strategy
 * Experience modernising complex or legacy systems at scale
 * Deep understanding of distributed systems, reliability, scalability, and operational excellence
 * Strong organisational leadership and engineering process mindset
 * Experience improving developer productivity, tooling, CI/CD, observability, or platform engineering practices
 * Familiarity with modern AI-assisted engineering workflows is highly desirable

The firm is open-minded on industry background and is particularly interested in leaders who can bring mature engineering practices and external perspective into a high-performance trading environment.

## Description

* Define and drive long-term engineering strategy across the trading platform
 * Improve engineering maturity, development workflows, tooling, and operational processes
 * Lead initiatives around observability, monitoring, reliability, and production stability
 * Drive platform scalability and architectural evolution
 * Introduce modern software engineering standards and best practices
 * Lead AI-enabled engineering initiatives and workflow automation
 * Partner closely with trading, research, and infrastructure leadership
 * Mentor and scale a high-performing engineering organisation


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