Chief Technology Officer

Job ID: 41569

Location: Dubai, AE

Area of interest: Change and Transformation

Job type: Fixed Term Worker

Work style:

Opening date: Oct 3, 2025

37C is building an institutional digital-asset financing & treasury platform. We provide USD/stablecoin lending against digital-asset collateral with assets held at qualified custodians. Beyond lending, we aim to keep borrowers and investors on-platform with curated tokenized investment opportunities and light-touch prime services (via partners) such as collateral/treasury tools. We are building a tech-first company —API-driven, security-led, with AI embedded in underwriting, monitoring, and operations.
37C is backed by a tier-1 global bank and a leading hedge fund manager.

The Opportunity:

As our Founding CTO, you’ll be the technical owner from v0 v1 scale. You’ll architect and ship the MVP, integrate custody/venues, stand up the risk engine, and embed AI across operations and the front office—while building a lean, high-calibre engineering team. This is a builder role: hands on keyboard, product-minded, security-first.

• Platform & MVP
  • Borrower/investor onboarding, KYC/KYB, permissions, audit trails.
  • Collateral & margin engine (pricing oracles, LTV bands, daily/intraday calls, liquidation playbooks).
  • Loan lifecycle: documentation, servicing, cash flows, investor reporting.
  • Integrations: qualified custodians (e.g., Fireblocks/Copper/Anchorage/BitGo), exchanges/OTC & liquidation agents,bank rails, chain analytics (TRM/Chainalysis), data providers (on-/off-chain).
• Architecture & Infra

• Choose and implement core stack (cloud, data, CI/CD, observability, secrets, endpoint/SSO).
• Security by design: key management (MPC/HSM), wallet policy engine, network isolation, incident response.

• AI enablement

• Ops: connect Outlook/Slack/Notion/CRM/calls; automate workflows & MI; build secure data lake/warehouse.
• Front office/risk: LLM-assisted underwriting and monitoring (RAG, scoring, alerts), client comms automation, model governance.

• Org & Ops

• Set up internal systems (Google Workspace/M365, Slack, Notion/Jira, code repos, runbooks).
• Vendor selection & cost management; draft and enforce SDLC, change, and security policies.

• 10+ years building production systems in high-stakes environments (prime services, electronic trading, risk, custody, or institutional crypto).
• Hands-on builder: expert in at least two of TypeScript/Node, Python, Go, Rust; comfort with Solidity (or Rust for Solana) and smart-contract interfaces; strong SQL/data modeling.
• Blockchain depth: L1/L2 architectures, consensus, bridges/MEV risks; DeFi (AMMs, lending, staking/LSTs); on-chain risk, oracle design, token standards; custody models (MPC/HSM, multisig), whitelisting and policy controls.
• Institutional finance fluency: margin lending, collateral management, repo/prime brokerage concepts; FIX/REST/WebSocket trading APIs; settlement & reconciliation.
• Cloud & security: AWS/GCP/Azure, IaC (Terraform), containers; observability; identity/SSO (Okta/AAD); ISO 27001/SOC 2–style controls.
• AI/ML: practical experience deploying LLM/RAG systems, evaluations, governance, and secure data pipelines.
• Regulated context: worked with risk/compliance teams (FCA/ADGM/MAS/HKMA or equivalent), strong appreciation for KYC/AML, sanctions, data retention.
• Leadership: hires and develops senior engineers; communicates crisply with founders, Board, investors; bias to action.
• Mobility: willingness to relocate to UAE (Abu Dhabi) as we scal
• What great looks like
  • v1 live with first institutional loans booked; custody & venue integrations operational.
  • Automated LTV/margin workflows with auditable controls; zero critical incidents.
  • Core data model and dashboards live for risk, finance, and investor reporting.
  • AI agents handling a meaningful share of onboarding, monitoring, and internal ops.
  • Engineering hiring plan executed; strong documentation, SDLC, and security posture in place.

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.