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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