CTO, Co-Founder – Startup, Hands-On Rust

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

📋 Description

• Define and spearhead the long-term technical architecture of the platform.

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

• Assist in developing scalable systems that facilitate feeds, messaging, live updates, video, and data infrastructure.

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

• Collaborate closely with leadership on product and company strategy.

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

• Work directly with engineers on architecture reviews, trade-offs, and implementation decisions.

• Contribute to the design of future financial infrastructure encompassing rewards, wallets, payments, and crypto-related systems.

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

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

⛳️ Requirements

• 7–15+ years of software engineering and technical leadership experience, preferably within startups or high-growth consumer technology platforms.

• Strong hands-on engineering background with active participation 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 developing 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.

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

• Possess strong entrepreneurial judgment, ownership mentality, and a focus on execution.

🏝️ Benefits

• Significant equity ownership.

• Long-term token participation.

• Founding-level influence over the company and platform.