Founding CTO / Chief Risk Officer ( Co-Founder Level )

Ant-Tech

$200K — $300K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Former Founder, CTO, or Founding Engineer
  • Expert-level proficiency in Rust
  • Strong background in financial or trading infrastructure
  • Experience in building systems from inception to scaling
  • Deep understanding of risk, margin, and trading systems
  • Strong DevOps and infrastructure expertise
  • Experience with protocol security, security auditing, or blockchain infrastructure

Responsibilities

  • Define and execute the technical vision
  • Architect core trading, risk, and settlement infrastructure
  • Design robust risk and margin systems
  • Lead engineering and infrastructure strategy
  • Establish security and reliability standards
  • Collaborate closely with founders on product and protocol direction
  • Build the engineering organization from the ground up

Benefits

  • Co-founder-level ownership
  • Up to 5% equity
  • Remote work with global-friendly environment
  • Build critical infrastructure from inception
  • Direct influence on product, protocol, and technical strategy
  • Opportunity to shape the future of institutional on-chain FX
Full Job Description
Tasks

Remote - US / Global-friendly
New York City preferred

We're hiring a Founding CTO / Chief Risk Officer to join an early-stage fintech/Web3 startup building an on-chain institutional FX hedging infrastructure.

This is a co-founder-level opportunity for a technical leader who wants to own the architecture, risk infrastructure, and technical vision from day one.

Who We're Looking For

Must-have:

  • Former Founder, CTO, or Founding Engineer
  • Expert-level Rust - strictly required
  • Strong background in financial/trading infrastructure
  • Experience building systems from 0 1 1 and scaling them in production
  • Deep understanding of risk, margin, trading, or financial systems
  • Strong DevOps / infrastructure expertise
  • Experience with protocol security, security auditing, or blockchain infrastructure
  • Comfortable taking full technical ownership at co-founder level


Requirements

Ideal Background

We're especially interested in engineers who have worked on:

  • Trading engines / financial infrastructure
  • Risk & margin systems
  • Market infrastructure
  • DeFi / derivatives / FX protocols
  • Blockchain / smart contract infrastructure
  • High-performance Rust systems
  • Security-critical financial protocols
  • Distributed systems and production infrastructure

What You'll Own

  • Define and execute the technical vision
  • Architect core trading, risk and settlement infrastructure
  • Design robust risk & margin systems
  • Lead engineering and infrastructure strategy
  • Establish security and reliability standards
  • Work closely with founders on product and protocol direction
  • Build the engineering organization from the ground up


Benefits

Why This Role?

  • Co-founder-level ownership
  • Up to 5% equity
  • $200K-$300K salary
  • Remote / global-friendly
  • Build critical infrastructure from 0 1 1
  • Direct influence on product, protocol and technical strategy
  • Opportunity to shape the future of institutional on-chain FX

Interested?
DM me with your CV + LinkedIn/GitHub, especially if you have strong Rust + trading/financial infrastructure experience.

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