As CTO, you’ll lead the design, development, and evolution of our decentralized financial platform/protocol and token ecosystem. You’ll build and oversee a global engineering team while making foundational decisions on architecture, security, and scalability.

Key responsibilities:

Architecture & Infrastructure

1. Design and evolve our core platform architecture (modular, token-centric, protocol-fit)
2. Oversee smart contract design, audits, and mainnet deployments
3. Integrate AI/agentic systems for automation, underwriting, and P2P execution

Product & Protocol Development

1. Translate business needs into product specs, tokens, and protocol mechanics
2. Build out our RWA tokenization stack and lending/payment rails
3. Optimize for mobile-first access across Africa and the global south

Team & Culture Leadership

1. Recruit, mentor, and manage a distributed engineering team
2. Establish engineering processes, dev ops, audit security, and documentation standards
3. Align tech vision with product, design, and community stakeholders

Innovation & Strategy

1. Lead research into AI x DeFi convergence, privacy layers, oracle design, and community governance
2. Influence tokenomics, incentive models, and DAO participation frameworks
3. Work closely with the CEO/Co-Founder on strategic priorities, hiring, fundraising, and partnerships

💡 You Might Be a Fit If You

• Have deep hands-on experience with smart contracts, DeFi protocols, and Web3 infrastructure (Solidity, Vyper, Cosmos SDK, Substrate, etc.)
• Are a systems thinker and protocol architect — you understand primitives, modularity, composability, and token ecosystems
• Have worked in or deeply understand RWA tokenization, asset registries, oracle problems, and off-chain/on-chain sync
• Have shipped Web3 or fintech products and led engineering teams at high-growth startups
• Understand the African economic context — its pain points, mobile-first behavior, and massive opportunity
• Are a strong communicator with high ownership, able to move between product, tech, and leadership contexts
• Bonus: experience with MCP, zero-knowledge proofs, or community-owned infrastructure models

🔧 Tech Stack (current + evolving)

• Frontend: React, Next.js, TypeScript
• Backend: Node.js
• Blockchain: Solidity (Ethereum/L2s), Fedimint, Bitcoin Lightning, Cosmos SDK
• Infra: GCP, Docker, GitHub Actions, Gnosis Safe, Chainlink, IPFS
• DevOps: CI/CD, security-first engineering, audit frameworks

🌱 What You’ll Get

• Co-founder-level ownership and leadership of a generational product
• Mix of cash + equity + token compensation, aligned with your level of involvement
• Opportunity to build systems that outlast you and guide the world into a decentralized future
• Global exposure — work with investors, partners, and builders across the global South
• A deeply mission-aligned team obsessed with accelerating man-kinds transition towards an era of abundance.