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Founding CTO Chief Risk Officer ( Co-Founder Level )

Ant-Tech


Job Location:

New York City, NY - USA

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 3 September 2026 (17 days ago)
Application Deadline: 1 December 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Tasks

Remote US / Global-friendly
New York City preferred

Were 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 Were 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 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

Were 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 Youll 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
  • 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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