Co-Founder & CTO: Architect of High-Scale, World-Changing Tech

Startup

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 120,000 - 240,000

Full time

14 days+
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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

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.

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