CTO, Co-Founder, Rust, Startup Experience

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Texas.

📋 Description

• Define and steer the long-term technical framework of the platform.

• Direct backend architecture and infrastructure strategy utilizing Rust-based systems.

• Contribute to the development of scalable systems for feeds, messaging, live updates, video, and data infrastructure.

• Supervise the engineering direction across backend, frontend, infrastructure, and product systems.

• Collaborate closely with leadership on product and company strategies.

• Establish an engineering culture, hiring standards, and technical execution processes.

• Engage directly with engineers in architecture reviews, trade-offs, and implementation choices.

• Assist in designing future financial infrastructure, including rewards, wallets, payments, and crypto-related systems.

• Support AI-driven systems such as translation, recommendation, search, and football history infrastructure.

• Ensure scalability, reliability, performance, and security across all systems.

⛳️ Requirements

• 7–15+ years of experience in software engineering and technical leadership, preferably in startups or rapidly growing consumer technology platforms.

• Strong hands-on engineering background with active involvement in architecture, systems design, and production codebases.

• Extensive experience in building and scaling modern consumer platforms that involve real-time systems, high concurrency, and large-scale user engagement.

• Proficient in production Rust, focusing on building asynchronous backend systems and distributed infrastructure.

• Comprehensive understanding of backend architecture, APIs, event-driven systems, databases, caching, and scalable infrastructure design.

• Experience in building or managing one or more of the following:

• Social feeds and microblogging systems.

• Messaging or real-time communication platforms.

• TikTok-style video or media infrastructure.

• Financial, wallet, fintech, or gambling infrastructure.

• AI-powered consumer products.

• Large-scale SEO or content infrastructure.

• Ability to make pragmatic technical trade-offs that balance scalability, performance, speed, maintainability, and operational simplicity.

• Experience in leading and mentoring engineering teams while remaining deeply technical and hands-on.

• Comfortable working in fast-paced startup environments characterized by ambiguity, shifting priorities, and minimal processes.

• Exceptional communication skills, capable of articulating architectural decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Strong entrepreneurial judgment, ownership mentality, and focus on execution.

🏝️ Benefits

• Significant equity ownership.

• Long-term token participation.

• Founding-level influence over the company and platform.

• Deferred compensation structured work arrangements.