CTO / Head of Engineering - Dragonfly Portfolio

Dragonfly; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Dragonfly, a crypto-native venture capital firm, is looking for a CTO to lead engineering in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in backend engineering and a strong background in scaling crypto products. This senior leadership role requires collaboration with founders and ownership of technical strategies to drive product growth and maturity.

Benefits

Competitive salary and equity packages

Opportunity to lead high-growth projects

Work in a fast-paced, innovative environment

Qualifications

• 7+ years of backend engineering experience including team lead or managerial roles.
• Proven track record with meaningful crypto products.
• Strong experience in distributed systems and microservice architectures.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering execution and technical strategy for a crypto gaming company.
• Own backend architecture and systems design for high-volume applications.
• Collaborate with founders to focus and enhance systems and processes.

Skills

Backend Engineering

Systems Design

Communication

Collaboration

Job description

CTO / Head of Engineering - Dragonfly Portfolio

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We’re hiring a CTO to lead engineering at a high-growth, early-stage crypto gaming company.

This is a senior leadership role with a small, fast-moving team in the Dragonfly portfolio. The product is live with meaningful traction—8-figure+ transaction volume and rapid user growth—and now needs a technical leader to guide the next phase of scale. You’ll own technical strategy and backend architecture, lead engineering execution, and work closely with the founders to bring focus and systems to a fast-evolving, high-volume crypto-native application.

Dragonfly is a crypto-native Venture Capital and research firm with $2B+ in assets under management and 160+ portfolio companies (see list). Our Talent team supports the recruiting efforts of our portfolio by connecting top candidates with some of the most ambitious teams in crypto. We’re currently hiring engineering leaders for early-stage teams building critical infrastructure and high-throughput crypto-native products. This is not a listing for an internal role at Dragonfly.

What We’re Looking For

• 7+ years of backend engineering experience, including time as a team lead, manager, or technical co-founder
• A proven track record shipping meaningful crypto products: protocols, infra, exchanges, wallets, or high-volume consumer apps
• Strong systems design skills and deep experience with distributed systems and microservice architectures
• Ability to lead in fast-moving environments where systems are scaling rapidly and priorities shift quickly
• Strong communication and collaboration skills across engineering, product, and business teams
  
  

About The Roles

• We’re hiring across multiple portfolio companies, including:
• An infrastructure platform powering smart contract wallets, prime brokerage, and OTC trading - live with $15B+ in transaction volume across 12 EVM chains. You’ll lead backend architecture and scale integrations across protocols and execution systems.
• A rapidly growing crypto-native product with early volume and engagement at unusual scale. You’ll lead engineering strategy, stabilize critical systems, and help the team scale infrastructure to meet demand while building toward long-term technical maturity.
• These roles are ideal for engineers who have built through chaos, can move quickly without sacrificing quality, and enjoy taking ownership of hard technical problems from architecture to execution.
  
  

Other Roles We’re Hiring For

If this role isn’t the right fit, we’re also hiring across protocol, infra, and product engineering roles, especially for crypto-native engineers who want to lead from the front. Many of our teams are looking for early technical leaders ready to ship, scale, and own real systems.

Process

• We’ll confidentially match you with portfolio companies aligned with your background, skill set, and interests.
• If mutual interest exists between you and a team, we’ll facilitate a warm introduction.
• If there isn’t a match today, we’ll keep you top of mind for future opportunities.
  
  

Our portfolio companies are globally distributed, hiring for remote, hybrid, and in-person roles worldwide. They’re building across the entire crypto ecosystem, including DeFi, CeFi, infrastructure, L1s and L2s, creator/consumer applications, NFTs, ZK, Crypto x AI, and more. All candidate submissions are strictly confidential.

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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Executive

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals

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