CTO - Head of Product Engineering

ABOUT DEETER ANALYTICS Deeter Analytics is a privately held investment research and trading firm managing ~$500M across public markets, alternatives, and private investments. We operate with a small, senior, high-performance team within a deeply entrepreneurial culture. We value autonomy, directness, clarity, and technical rigor. We hire very few people, expect a lot from them, and invest heavily in their long-term growth and performance. This environment suits sharp, self-directed thinkers who don’t need structure to perform and who work well with other outlier minds. ROLE OVERVIEW We are hiring a Head of Product Engineering & Systems Architecture (CTO Track) — a first-principles technical thinker who will own and simplify our internal technical ecosystem, translate trading and research needs into clean, high-leverage tools, and drive fast, disciplined product execution. This role is ideal for someone who has the mindset of a technical founder — someone who thinks cleanly, architects simply, and builds with purpose — but who does not want the operational burdens of running a company. Your focus here is pure technical leverage: - designing simple, elegant systems - shaping the engineering roadmap - guiding a small team - prototyping fast - ensuring we build what matters - maintaining architectural clarity as we scale with AI KEY RESPONSIBILITIES 1. Systems Architecture & Technical Clarity (Primary) - Own the coherence and simplicity of all internal systems. - Architect a clean, minimal, AI-augmentable technical environment. - Reduce complexity and eliminate unnecessary abstractions. - Define standards, interfaces, and guiding principles for the team. - Hold the line on simplicity: clarity > cleverness. 2. Product Architecture & Engineering Leadership - Translate needs from traders, researchers, and leadership into crisp technical decisions. - Distill ambiguous requests into minimal viable specifications. - Prioritize based on leverage and outcome, not noise. - Shape