CTO / Head of Engineering - Dragonfly Portfolio

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