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Chief Technology Officer

🗓️ Posted 2026-09-10 Malaysia Fulltime Hybrid ICT
💰 Salary Not shared 📊 Market RM20,000–RM45,000/mo

About the Company

We are focused on reinventing how people spend, save, invest, exchange, travel, and more. Our objective is to build tools that will help people get more from their money and and become an expert at ease. We believe AI will help make finance smart, assessible and safe. We have teams working around the world, with over 20 nationalities and growing from our offices and remotely. In 2019, we built the first mobile-first, insurance platform, enabling insurance to be accessible online by millions in the region. Today, it's the leading insurance platform in Southeast Asia.

About the Role

The CTO will own technology for doit Holdings, our regulated investment platform in Malaysia. This is a build role. The platform does not exist yet, and it has to be built inside a technology risk framework that satisfies the Securities Commission's Guidelines on Technology Risk Management from the first line of code. The role runs from architecture and engineering execution through to the systems evidence the SC assesses at registration.

Responsibilities

  • ● Own architecture and major technical decisions for the platform, from onboarding and order routing through records, reporting and the partner interfaces.
  • ● Build and lead the engineering team, and set standards across reliability, security, performance, testing and code quality.
  • ● Implement the SC's technology risk requirements as engineering practice: change control and approvals, secure development, testing and acceptance, capacity and resilience.
  • ● Produce the systems evidence behind the readiness declaration a director and the Responsible Person must sign before the platform may operate.
  • ● Take the platform through the independent technology validation that gates registration, and close what it finds.
  • ● Own business continuity and disaster recovery, tested rather than documented.
  • ● Own cloud, vendor and outsourcing arrangements, where the board remains accountable for everything outsourced.

Requirements

  • ● Deep software engineering background with experience building and scaling production systems.
  • ● Strong knowledge of backend systems, APIs, databases, cloud infrastructure and distributed systems.
  • ● Experience making architecture decisions across multiple products or engineering teams.
  • ● Strong technical judgement and ability to challenge engineering decisions at implementation level.
  • ● Capable of building world-class engineering teams.
  • ● Still technically hands-on - able to review code, architecture, incidents and difficult engineering problems directly.
  • ● Strong English communication is required.

Benefits

  • ● Hybrid role with flexibility to work remotely for part of the week.
  • ● Opportunity to work with a global team with over 20 nationalities.
  • ● Fast interview process with the aim to complete within 1 week for strong candidates.