ChiefTechnologyOfficer-India

### About BestEx Research BestEx Research is an award-winning, high-growth, profitable algorithmic trading technology fintech company that executes over a trillion dollars in notional volume algorithmically for institutional clients. With 75 employees across offices in the US, London, Singapore, and India, we build the systems that power best-execution trading at global scale. We are expanding rapidly and looking for a technology leader to drive our next phase of growth. ### The Role We are looking for a CTO based in India to lead all software engineering and DevOps operations across our Indian offices. This is a senior leadership role reporting directly to the CEO, with full ownership of the technology organization in India and a seat at the table on company-wide technical strategy. You will lead multiple engineering teams spanning market data systems, trading engines, strategy containers, simulation infrastructure, front-end/AMS platforms, and DevOps — ensuring that BestEx’s technology is scalable, reliable, and positioned at the cutting edge. This is not a figurehead role. We need someone who combines deep technical credibility with the ability to build and lead high-performing teams, set culture, and deliver. ### What You’ll Do ### Technical Leadership & Architecture * Own the overall technical architecture and technology roadmap across all trading systems and infrastructure * Provide hands-on architectural guidance to engineering teams - market data, trading systems, strategy/simulation, front-end (AMS), and DevOps * Ensure systems are scalable, maintainable, well-documented, and built to institutional-grade reliability standards * Evaluate and introduce new technologies (e.g., AI/ML, modern data infrastructure) where they create real competitive advantage * Establish and enforce engineering best practices — code quality, testing, CI/CD, monitoring, incident response, and documentation * Collaborate closely with the quantitative research team to translate strat