CTO – Co-founder, Hands-on Rust, Startup Experience

Role Overview

• Define and lead the long-term technical architecture of the platform
• Lead backend architecture and infrastructure strategy using Rust-based systems
• Help build scalable systems supporting feeds, messaging, live updates, video, and data infrastructure
• Oversee engineering direction across backend, frontend, infrastructure, and product systems
• Partner closely with leadership on product and company strategy
• Establish engineering culture, hiring standards, and technical execution processes
• Work directly with engineers on architecture reviews, tradeoffs, and implementation decisions
• Help design future financial infrastructure including rewards, wallets, payments, and crypto-related systems
• Support AI-powered 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, ideally within startups or high-growth consumer technology platforms
• Strong hands-on engineering background with active involvement in architecture, systems design, and production codebases
• Significant experience building and scaling modern consumer platforms involving real-time systems, high concurrency, and large-scale user engagement
• Strong production Rust experience building asynchronous backend systems and distributed infrastructure
• Deep understanding of backend architecture, APIs, event-driven systems, databases, caching, and scalable infrastructure design
• Experience building or operating 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 tradeoffs balancing scalability, performance, speed, maintainability, and operational simplicity
• Experience leading and mentoring engineering teams while remaining deeply technical and hands-on
• Comfortable operating in fast-moving startup environments with ambiguity, evolving priorities, and limited process
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain architectural decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Strong entrepreneurial judgment, ownership mentality, and execution focus

Tech Stack

• Rust

Benefits

• Significant equity ownership
• Long-term token participation
• Founding-level influence over the company and platform