Founding CTO / Chief Risk Officer ( Co-Founder Level )
Tasks
🌎 Remote — US / Global-friendly
📍 New York City preferred
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
Requirements
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
Why This Role?
- 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
📩 Interested?
DM me with your CV + LinkedIn/GitHub , especially if you have strong Rust + trading/financial infrastructure experience.
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