Co-Founder and CTO

Startup; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Huge equity share

Founding team

Job summary

Startup in the Bay Area seeks a bold, hands-on technologist to drive the product's backend and infrastructure. You will define, design and build secure, high-performance architectures and lead the engineering team from scratch.

You should be an outstanding hacker who can develop the MVP backend using OSS, move to the Bay Area, and commit for more than four years. Equity is substantial and the mission is world-changing.

Qualifications

• Be interesting.
• Be an outstanding hacker.
• Be willing to make this a major part of your life for > 4 years
• Be willing to move to the Bay Area

Responsibilities

• Define, design and build secure, reliable, large-scale, high-transaction and high-performance application architecture, database and services.
• Develop back-end of first MVP with OSS and your preferred stack
• Define, design and implement internal and consumer facing APIs
• Build the engineering team from scratch
• Change the world and help build the economic and monetary layer on the internet

Skills

Be an outstanding hacker

Be interesting

Move to Bay Area

Commit for 4+ years

Tools

OSS stack

Job description

Our awesome team is made of an economist and product hacker. We need someone to put some sense into us and drive the technological development of our product.

- our Chief Economist has a Phd in Economics from Bocconi University, has studied at Hardvard, London School of Economics and in China. He teaches at the most exclusive college in Italy and worked in the VC fund started by Google Italy's ex Country Manager. He is now at Singularity University.

- our Chief Hustler is a hacker, noise maker and community builder. He has been developing web products for years. On top of that he advises and invests in companies, organizes hackatons, works with the best angels and mentors in the world and writes for well know startup blogs.

Responsibilities:

• Define, design and build secure, reliable, large-scale, high-transaction and high-performance application architecture, database and services.
• Develop back-end of first MVP with OSS and your preferred stack
• Define, design and implement internal and consumer facing APIs
• Build the engineering team from scratch
• Change the world and help build the economic and monetary layer on the internet

Requirements:

• Be interesting
• Be an outstanding hacker
• Be willing to make this a major part of your life for > 4 years
• Be willing to move to the Bay Area

Preferred:

• You can develop an API to control the world
• You can manage nuclear-war risk with software
• Anything lower than 1 billion transactions per second is negligible to you
• You are a cryptogeek
• You want to call your kids Erlang and Cassandra
• Huge equity share.
• An awesome founding team.
• The chance to change the world and get incredibly rich doing so.