Job Description
Head of Technology / CTO — Financial Markets (Kolkata)
Nevaeh Technology Pvt Ltd, a pioneering High-Frequency Trading (HFT) platform with a 15-year legacy, serving domestic and international clients, is seeking a Head of Technology / CTO with vision, technical depth, and execution excellence.
Own reliability, quality, and delivery for trading technology across multiple financial exchanges. Build a high-output engineering culture, and strengthen SDLC, production operations, and data integrity.
- Production reliability: SRE/on-call readiness, incident management, disaster recovery & BCP.
- SDLC & quality: Code reviews, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, change control, and audit evidence.
- Platform ownership: Market data → order management/routing → pre-trade risk → post-trade clearing, reconciliation, and reporting.
- Quant & Algo tech: Partner with research to drive algorithmic trading and backtesting capabilities.
- Data platform: Contracts, lineage, reconciliations, SLAs, governance, and security.
- People & leadership: Hire and coach technical leads and seniors; manage vendors, budgets, and partner with trading, research, and compliance.
- 10–15+ years in financial markets technology, with 5+ years managing team.
- Proven ownership of 24×7 mission-critical systems with defined SLOs and audit requirements (SOC2 / ISO / SOX or equivalent).
- Strong grounding in SDLC, change management, observability, incident response, and stakeholder communication.
- Experience with OMS/EMS, FIX, risk systems, reconciliations, and full trade lifecycle.
- Working familiarity with C++ or Python (emphasis on leadership, reliability, and delivery).
Short Term: Define SLOs, establish on-call process, implement CI/CD with test gates, reduce Sev-1 incidents by 30%.
Medium Term: Daily deploys on core services, MTTR < 15 minutes, audited change management.
Long Term: Predictable quarterly releases, zero-surprise audits, and on-time new exchange integrations.
We calibrate title, scope, and compensation to the candidate’s impact and track record.
We’re flexible on cash vs. equity/phantom structure, can support relocation/buyouts, and pay top-of-market for exceptional talent.
We’re happy to discuss expectations confidentially early in the process.
📍 Location: Kolkata HQ (Sector V)
📧 Email your resume or LinkedIn profile to [email protected]
📌 Subject: “CTO – Kolkata”
📝 Optional: Include a 1-page 90-day plan for stabilizing production & SDLC.
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