Dragonfly is a crypto-native Venture Capital and research firm with a focus on early-stage crypto gaming companies. They are seeking a CTO to lead engineering efforts, guiding technical strategy and backend architecture for a high-growth crypto-native application with significant transaction volume and rapid user growth.
Responsibilities:
- Own technical strategy and backend architecture
- Lead engineering execution
- Work closely with the founders to bring focus and systems to a fast-evolving, high-volume crypto-native application
- Lead backend architecture and scale integrations across protocols and execution systems
- Stabilize critical systems and help the team scale infrastructure to meet demand while building toward long-term technical maturity
Requirements:
- 7+ years of backend engineering experience, including time as a team lead, manager, or technical co-founder
- A proven track record shipping meaningful crypto products: protocols, infra, exchanges, wallets, or high-volume consumer apps
- Strong systems design skills and deep experience with distributed systems and microservice architectures
- Ability to lead in fast-moving environments where systems are scaling rapidly and priorities shift quickly
- Strong communication and collaboration skills across engineering, product, and business teams