Founding CTO / Chief Risk Officer ( Co-Founder Level )

About the role

We’re hiring a Founding CTO / Chief Risk Officer to join an early-stage fintech/Web3 startup building an on-chain institutional FX hedging infrastructure. This is a co-founder-level opportunity for a technical leader who wants to own the architecture, risk infrastructure, and technical vision from day one.

Who We’re Looking For

Must-have:

• Former Founder, CTO, or Founding Engineer
• Expert-level Rust — strictly required
• Strong background in financial/trading infrastructure
• Experience building systems from 0 → 1 and scaling them in production
• Deep understanding of risk, margin, trading, or financial systems
• Strong DevOps / infrastructure expertise
• Experience with protocol security, security auditing, or blockchain infrastructure
• Comfortable taking full technical ownership at co-founder level

Ideal Background — We’re especially interested in engineers who have worked on:

• Trading engines / financial infrastructure
• Risk & margin systems
• Market infrastructure
• DeFi / derivatives / FX protocols
• Blockchain / smart contract infrastructure
• High-performance Rust systems
• Security-critical financial protocols
• Distributed systems and production infrastructure

What You’ll Own

• Define and execute the technical vision
• Architect core trading, risk and settlement infrastructure
• Design robust risk & margin systems
• Lead engineering and infrastructure strategy
• Establish security and reliability standards
• Work closely with founders on product and protocol direction
• Build the engineering organization from the ground up

Benefits

• Co-founder-level ownership
• Up to 5% equity
• $200K–$300K salary
• Remote / global-friendly
• Build critical infrastructure from 0 → 1
• Direct influence on product, protocol and technical strategy
• Opportunity to shape the future of institutional on-chain FX