Ondo Finance is seeking a Chief Technology Officer to lead our technology organization through its next phase of growth. This hands-on role combines deep architectural ownership with operational excellence and organizational leadership. You will set the technical direction across a complex multi-product surface area spanning onchain and offchain systems, while ensuring reliable, secure execution against our roadmap.
What You'll Do
- Define and own the long-term technical architecture across onchain and offchain systems, ensuring scalability, security, and institutional readiness.
- Lead and develop the engineering organization, including hiring senior talent, coaching engineering managers, and strengthening performance standards.
- Drive disciplined planning and delivery processes that create alignment with Product and executive leadership and result in predictable execution.
- Establish and enforce high standards for reliability, incident management, observability, and production readiness.
- Partner with Legal to embed strong controls and compliance-aware engineering practices across the SDLC.
- Evaluate and reduce technical debt, making principled tradeoffs between short-term velocity and long-term system durability.
- Act as a strategic counterweight in roadmap and deadline discussions, ensuring commitments are ambitious but grounded in sound engineering judgment.
- Improve internal tooling, developer experience, and data systems to increase engineering velocity and cross-functional leverage.
- Represent the technology organization to executive leadership, investors, and external stakeholders when needed.
What We're Looking For
- 10+ years of engineering leadership experience, including leadership of managers and senior engineers in high-growth environments.
- Track record of defining architecture and scaling complex distributed systems in production.
- Experience operating systems with strong security, reliability, and compliance requirements.
- Demonstrated success building and evolving engineering organizations, including hiring senior leaders and raising performance standards.
- Strong cross-functional leadership skills and the ability to drive alignment across the business.
- Experience in fintech, crypto, or other regulated or institutionally oriented domains.
- Excellent communication skills and sound judgment in prioritization and tradeoff decisions.
Nice to Have
- Background at a large-scale technology company combined with meaningful experience in crypto or digital assets.
- Experience with smart contract development or teams building on Solana or EVM ecosystems.
- Familiarity with custody, trading systems, or tokenized real-world asset infrastructure.
- Prior responsibility for engineering budgeting or long-term capacity planning.
- Experience leveraging AI tools and automation to materially improve engineering productivity.
- Experience leading hybrid or distributed engineering teams and building in-person engineering hubs as organizations scale.
Company Culture
We are proud to have A+ colleagues who are alumni from leading firms like Goldman Sachs, Blackrock, Two Sigma, Bridgewater, SpaceX, AWS, Meta, Google, McKinsey, Circle, and Uniswap. We are backed by best-in-class investors including Pantera Capital, Founders Fund, and Coinbase Ventures.
Benefits & Compensation
- Competitive compensation including but not limited to salary, future token rights, and/or equity (according to your preferences).
- Full benefits (medical, vision, and dental) and flexible vacation policy (PTO).
Work Mode
This is a remote-first role open to candidates based in the United States. Our team is distributed across many countries.
