CTO, Startup Experience, 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.

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

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

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

• Collaborate closely with leadership on product and corporate strategy.

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

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

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

• Support AI-powered 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 within startups or rapidly growing consumer technology platforms.

• Strong hands-on engineering experience 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.

• Proven production experience with Rust, specifically in developing asynchronous backend systems and distributed infrastructure.

• In-depth knowledge of backend architecture, APIs, event-driven systems, databases, caching, and scalable infrastructure design.

• Experience in creating 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 practical technical trade-offs balancing 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 with ambiguity, shifting priorities, and minimal processes.

• Strong communication skills to clearly articulate architectural decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

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

🏝️ Benefits

• Significant equity ownership.

• Long-term token participation.

• Founding-level influence over the company and platform.