Founding CTO
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Founding CTO, NY preferred, but open to fully remote globally.It's not a "senior engineer with upside." This will be a co-founder - the person who owns the entire technical foundation and builds the team behind it.We're building institutional-grade infrastructure that brings regulated financial markets on-chain: trades quoted, margined, and settled on-chain, at the standard real institutions require. Seed-stage and funded, small team, moving fast.What matters most is that startup mentality - real ownership and urgency. That can look like someone earlier in their career who's already done outsized things, or someone more experienced who's fired up by the mission and the upside of building from the ground floor. Title and years matter less than the instinct to own it.Who I'm looking for:You've built the core of a trading venue or exchange - matching, risk, or settlement. The engine, not the alpha.You write Rust and think in deterministic, low-latency, always-on systems.You hold an institutional bar for security and uptime, because real money settles on what you ship.You use AI as a force multiplier and move faster because of it.You're a missionary, not a mercenary... you want to build a company, not take a job.You might be on a matching-engine team at an exchange, in a trading firm's core infrastructure group (not the quant desk), or deep in a derivatives protocol today.The founders have deep roots in institutional markets technology and on-chain protocol engineering, and they're backed by top-tier investors. I'll share the full picture once we connect.Co-founder-level equity + generous base.Running this one confidentially. If it sounds like your seat or you know exactly who should have it, don't hesitate to reach out.