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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Founding Chief Technology Officer - **Company:** Ceno Land Group LLC - **Location:** New York, NY, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Audit Trail, Databases, Customer Data Management, Disaster Recovery, Distributed Systems, Key Management, Systems Development Life Cycle, Role-Based Access Control, Software Engineering, Large Language Models, Backend, Stripe, Production Code, Software Coding - **Published:** November 7, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25304_b815731b0522ef3814160e7d54bfa9e6 ## About the Role * Senior engineering leadership experience, typically 8 to 10+ years in software engineering, with meaningful architecture ownership and experience hiring or leading engineers. * Hands-on technical strength today. You are still close enough to the codebase to make core architecture decisions yourself and write production code when needed. * Experience building or operating production systems in fintech, brokerage, payments, lending, neobanking, crypto exchange, FX, market data, fintech ledgering, or an analogous money-moving domain. * Experience with systems where correctness, audit trails, customer money, and operational recovery are real constraints. * Comfort in regulated or high-compliance environments: you understand that engineering decisions have regulatory consequences and build accordingly. * Strong understanding of APIs, distributed systems, databases, queues and streams, observability, secure deployments, and incident response. * Practical knowledge of broker, clearing, custody, payment, exchange, bank, market-data, or similar financial-infrastructure integrations. * Familiarity with KYC, AML, OFAC, fraud controls, account opening, funding flows, customer data protection, and regulated financial operations. * AI-native engineering instincts: using AI-assisted development tools and agentic workflows to accelerate product, operations, research, and compliance work while maintaining quality, security, and auditability. * Ability to build consumer-grade product flows without compromising compliance, auditability, data rights, or financial correctness. * Strong communication with founders, engineers, product and design, counsel, compliance, investors, vendors, and financial-institution partners. * Founder-stage temperament: ambiguity, resourcefulness, urgency, and willingness to partner closely with the CEO on regulatory, partner, and investor conversations. ## Description Ceno's technology is the company: the brokerage, the ledger, the research pipeline, and the compliance guardrails are all things we build. This is a founding CTO role to own that from the ground up, and it carries three of the company's hardest mandates. * Own the technical vision. Ceno's technical vision, architecture, execution, and engineering culture, from the ground up. * Stay hands-on. Write code, design core systems, evaluate vendors, and work directly with broker and infrastructure partners. * Partner with the CEO. Take Ceno from early product build to production-ready brokerage infrastructure, and join regulatory, partner, and investor diligence. This is a hands-on executive role for the early stage of the company. The right person has built systems where correctness matters: trading, brokerage, payments, banking, crypto exchange, market data, ledgers, custody, or other regulated financial infrastructure. This is a founding-team seat with full ownership of technology from day one., * End-to-end architecture. Define Ceno's technical architecture across mobile, backend, broker integrations, market data, ledgering, AI research, compliance tooling, and internal operations. * The first app layer. Build the customer-facing app on top of regulated brokerage partner rails, preserving a clean path toward deeper Ceno-owned infrastructure over time. * Modular integrations. Design modular broker, clearing, custody, FX, KYC/AML, banking, and stablecoin-ready integration layers. * The trade lifecycle. Own it from order entry through routing, acknowledgement, fill, partial fill, cancellation, rejection, settlement, confirmation, portfolio update, and reconciliation. * Ledger and reconciliation. Build or supervise internal ledger and reconciliation systems for cash, buying power, pending deposits, FX conversions, positions, fees, tax lots, settlement events, and corporate actions. * Compliance-aware guardrails. Build product guardrails for KYC/AML, OFAC, suitability, marketing claims, research DISCLAIMERS, and investment-advice risk. * Market data and data rights. Own the architecture for delayed vs. real-time quotes, user entitlements, redistribution restrictions, vendor integrations, and cost controls. * AI research pipeline. Build the architecture for Ceno's AI research-translation pipeline: ingestion, extraction, translation, summarization, source citation, ranking, and alerts. * Ledger and treasury model. Architect it so future stablecoin settlement corridors can be added without rebuilding the account system. * Security and reliability. Establish standards from day one: encryption, secrets management, RBAC, secure SDLC, monitoring, alerting, incident response, and disaster recovery. * The engineering team. Hire and lead Ceno's first engineers. * Technical face of Ceno. Represent the company in technical conversations with investors, broker partners, banks, infrastructure vendors, regulators, and strategic partners., * Retail brokerage, broker-dealer technology, order management systems, execution management systems, clearing, custody, market data, or securities settlement. * Broker or clearing APIs such as Interactive Brokers, Apex Clearing, DriveWealth, or Alpaca. * Experience at or building products comparable to Robinhood, Interactive Brokers, Coinbase, Kraken, Wise, Revolut, Stripe, Plaid, Webull, Futu/Moomoo, Toss, Kakao Pay, a clearing firm, an exchange, a broker-dealer, or a regulated fintech infrastructure company. * Designing double-entry ledgers, event-sourced ledgers, reconciliation workflows, or financial accounting systems. * Multi-currency balances, FX conversion, treasury operations, cross-border payments, or stablecoin settlement. * USDC or other payment stablecoins, wallet or custody infrastructure, fiat on/off ramps, transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, or fiat-stablecoin reconciliation. * Working in or around FINRA/SEC-regulated environments: broker-dealer operations, books and records, supervisory controls, or audit response. * Building AI or LLM systems with rigorous evaluation, provenance, cost management, and quality controls. * Prior founding CTO, technical co-founder, VP Engineering, Head of Engineering, or early senior engineering leadership experience. Not the right fit * Manager-of-managers who no longer builds. At this stage the CTO is a builder first: writing code and designing core systems. * Narrow AI-only specialists. This is regulated brokerage infrastructure across mobile, backend, ledgering, and integrations, not an AI-only role. * Consumer-app generalists who don't want regulated-infrastructure ownership. Correctness, auditability, and operational tooling are the jobs from day one.