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About the Role
Ceno is seeking a founding CTO to own the company's technical vision, architecture, execution, and engineering culture from the ground up. This hands-on executive role involves writing code, designing core systems, and partnering closely with the CEO to build regulated brokerage infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Define Ceno's technical architecture across mobile, backend, broker integrations, market data, ledgering, AI research, compliance tooling, and internal operations.
- Build the customer-facing app on top of regulated brokerage partner rails.
- Design modular integrations for broker, clearing, custody, FX, KYC/AML, banking, and stablecoin-ready layers.
- Own the trade lifecycle from order entry through settlement and reconciliation.
- Build or supervise internal ledger and reconciliation systems for cash, positions, and corporate actions.
- Build product guardrails for KYC/AML, OFAC, suitability, and marketing claims.
- Own the architecture for market data, including quotes, entitlements, and cost controls.
- Build the architecture for Ceno's AI research-translation pipeline.
- Architect the ledger and treasury model to support future stablecoin settlement corridors.
- Establish security and reliability standards, including encryption, secrets management, and incident response.
- Hire and lead Ceno's first engineers.
- Represent the company in technical conversations with investors, partners, vendors, and regulators.
Requirements
- Senior engineering leadership experience (8-10+ years) with architecture ownership and experience hiring/leading engineers.
- Hands-on technical strength with the ability to write production code and make core architecture decisions.
- Experience building or operating production systems in fintech, brokerage, payments, lending, neobanking, crypto exchange, FX, market data, or ledgering.
- Experience with systems where correctness, audit trails, customer money, and operational recovery are critical.
- Comfort in regulated or high-compliance environments.
- Strong understanding of APIs, distributed systems, databases, queues, streams, observability, secure deployments, and incident response.
- Practical knowledge of financial-infrastructure integrations (broker, clearing, custody, payment, exchange, etc.).
- Familiarity with KYC, AML, OFAC, fraud controls, account opening, funding flows, and regulated financial operations.
- AI-native engineering instincts, utilizing AI-assisted development tools.
- Ability to build consumer-grade product flows without compromising compliance or financial correctness.
- Strong communication skills with diverse stakeholders.
- Founder-stage temperament, including resourcefulness and urgency.
- Experience building AI or LLM systems with rigorous controls.
Skills
- Fintech
- Brokerage
- Payments
- Lending
- Neobanking
- Crypto Exchange
- FX
- Market Data
- Ledgering
- APIs
- Distributed Systems
- Databases
- Queues
- Streams
- Observability
- Secure Deployments
- Incident Response
- KYC
- AML
- OFAC
- Fraud Controls
- AI
- LLM
Location
- US
Work Type
- Full-time
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Senior
- Founding Team
About the Company
- Ceno is building the neobank for the US-to-Asia corridor, offering a single account for Americans to invest in global equities, hold and move USD, KRW, and JPY, and manage a financial life spanning two continents.
- The company is starting with a retail brokerage providing US investors direct access to Korean and Japanese equities, with FX, custody, KYC, and tax reporting handled by an AI-native backend.
- Ceno aims to make trading global equities feel like trading US markets, with localized research and news delivered in real-time by an AI research engine.
- The long-term vision includes expanding market access and enabling stablecoin-enabled settlement for cross-Pacific money movement.
- Ceno is a regulated fintech infrastructure company on a path to its own FINRA-licensed broker-dealer.
- The company is seed-stage and building its founding engineering team.