Chief Technology Officer

Job Purpose

Building world-class products like Cardano, Midnight and RealFi requires not just brilliant engineers, but a living ecosystem where standards, habits and ways of working compound over time. The CTO is the person who builds that ecosystem.

Working at the intersection of strategy and code, the CTO partners with the CEO to define the engineering direction, align the CPO and COO to keep the roadmap sound and moving at pace, and work with IO Labs to bring the most promising ideas from research into reality. They shape how IOG builds in an AI-first world, embedding an agentic programming philosophy that makes AI a genuine force multiplier across every team. And they grow the people who make all of this possible, through a Centre of Excellence that sets the technical standard for every product and venture IOG builds next.

CTO Accountabilities

• Work with the CEO to define the future engineering strategy for IOG.
• Own enterprise technology and architectural direction.
• Shape the developer ecosystem: the standards, culture, tooling, and working practices that determine how IOG builds software. 
• AI-first engineering: developing and embedding an agentic programming philosophy across IOG - establishing how engineers and AI agents work together to build and ship at pace in an agent-driven world.
• Working closely with the COO and CPO to ensure the roadmap is technically sound, resourced appropriately, and deliv