CTO, Startup Experience, Rust

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

📋 Description

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

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

• Assist in creating scalable systems that support 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 strategies.

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

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

• Contribute to the design of 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 software engineering and technical leadership experience, preferably in 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 significant user engagement.

• Strong production experience in Rust, focusing on asynchronous backend systems and distributed infrastructure.

• Deep knowledge 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 practical 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 functioning in fast-paced startup environments with ambiguity, shifting priorities, and limited processes.

• Strong communication skills with the ability to articulate 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.