Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Quantitative Trading Systems
MONEST develops mathematically grounded, systematic investment strategies for an institutionally oriented asset management platform. We are seeking a CTO who seamlessly integrates technology with financial markets—someone who not only understands market dynamics but also builds trading systems with their own hands.
Area of Responsibility
- Technology Strategy: Define and drive the technological direction of the platform, aligning it with the company’s institutional objectives.
- System Development: Oversee the development, programming, and continuous improvement of proprietary trading and investment systems from model design to productive, auditable implementation.
- Product Development: Shape, build, and evolve the company’s systematic investment products from concept to institutional readiness.
- Quantitative Pipeline: Build and maintain the quantitative pipeline across all processes, including data preparation, signal generation, and validated decision-making.
- Risk Management: Own risk management as an integral discipline, focusing on position sizing, drawdown control, volatility management, and capital preservation.
- Model Governance: Ensure rigorous backtesting, validation, and model governance with full traceability of all decisions made.
- Scalable Architecture: Build a scalable technology, execution, and data architecture that meets institutional requirements for reporting, auditability, governance, and compliance.
- Team Leadership: Build and lead engineering and IT teams, establishing a high-performing technical organization.
- Corporate Leadership: Contribute to the strategic management of the company, advising executive management on product structure, AMC/mandate solutions, data architecture, and regulatory-compliant processes.
- Representation: Represent the company before banks, institutional partners, and professional investors.
The Combination of Technology × Finance
This position thrives on bridging both worlds. A system is only as strong as the market understanding behind it, and that understanding becomes ineffective without precise technical execution. We are therefore seeking the rare combination of extensive institutional market experience and the ability to personally program models without losing fidelity between idea and implementation.
Requirements
- At least 25 years of experience in financial markets, institutional trading, quantitative analysis, or algorithmic trading.
- Demonstrable experience in developing proprietary trading algorithms and quantitative investment models.
- Strong, independent programming skills to implement financial, risk, and trading models.
- Solid experience in institutional trading, portfolio risk management, capital preservation, position sizing, volatility control, and drawdown management.
- Sound knowledge of quantitative and statistical methods for market analysis.
- Understanding of wealth management, family offices, institutional allocators, HNWI structures, and professional investors.
- Experience engaging with banks, asset managers, wealth managers, and regulatory partners.
- Entrepreneurial leadership experience, capable of evolving a platform from its build-up phase into an institutional structure.
- Excellent command of English; proficiency in German is an advantage.
- Strong negotiation skills, integrity, polished presence, and willingness to work internationally.
Advantageous
- Experience building or scaling a financial, technology, or investment company.
- Development of proprietary algorithmic trading systems.
- Trading institutional capital or collaborating with banks.
- Building risk frameworks, backtesting processes, model validation, and performance analytics.
- Familiarity with AMC structures, managed accounts, hedge fund structures, or FINMA-adjacent setups.
- Experience in capital raising with family offices and qualified investors.
Personal Qualities
- Analytical, disciplined, and numbers-driven.
- Technologically adept and hands-on in programming.
- Entrepreneurial, decisive, and resilient.
- Communicative, polished, and strong in representation.
- Of high integrity, trustworthy, and long-term oriented.
Objective of the Position
The CTO will play a crucial role in building MONEST technologically, quantitatively, and institutionally, taking ownership of a scalable, rule-based asset management platform characterized by mathematically grounded strategies, transparent risk management, and institutional readiness.
Apply online using the form below. Only applications matching the job profile will be considered.