CTO - Blockchain Architect

1) Platform & Protocol Architecture

• Own end-to-end architecture for stablecoin issuance, treasury, and lifecycle (mint/burn, reserves, redemptions, fee mechanics).
• Select and justify chains/L2s (EVM, Cosmos SDK/IBC, Solana, enterprise/permissioned) and interoperability approaches (native deployment, IBC, cross-chain messaging/bridges).
• Define smart contract patterns (upgradeability, access control, pausability, circuit breakers), token standards (ERC20/677/777/4626), and event schemas.

Blockchain Architect

2) Stablecoin/Tokenization Design & Treasury

• Design reserve backing model (fiat-backed with custodial attestation, crypto-collateralized, or hybrid) and proof-of-reserves/attestation workflows.
• Integrate oracles (price, FX, interest rates) with antimanipulation controls (deviation thresholds, TWAPs, circuit breakers).
• Build treasury operations: issuance/redemption flows, fees, rebalancing, settlement windows, liquidity waterfalls, reconciliation.

) Trading, Liquidity & Market Connectivity

• Architect connectivity to exchanges (CEX REST/WebSocket/FIX), DEXs (AMM/RFQ), and liquidity providers.
• Design/guide Smart Order Routing (SOR), execution policies (VWAP/TWAP/IOC), slippage/latency thresholds, fee optimization, and gas-aware routing.
• Define data pipelines for ticks, order books, trades; ensure market data integrity and replay/simulation environments.

4) Security, Custody & Key Management

• Lead wallet architecture (hot/warm/cold segregation), MPC/HSM strategy, and key ceremonies with dual control and audit trails.
• Mandate secure SDLC: threat modeling, formal verification targets, static/dynamic analysis, fuzzing, dependency provenance.
• Own incident response plans: killswitches, circuit breakers, pause & recovery, and postmortem processes.

5) Compliance, Risk & Controls

• Embed KYC/AML, sanctions screening (OFAC), Travel Rule flows, and transaction risk scoring (on-chain analytics).
• Align with applicable frameworks (e.g., MiCA, FATF recommendations, local VASP regimes). Coordinate with Legal/Compliance on policy-as-code controls.
• Design auditability (immutable logs, merkleized state proofs, attestations) and data retention.

6) Interoperability & Bridges

• Evaluate IBC, generalized messaging (e.g., LayerZero), and bridge options (trust assumptions, validator sets, light client models).
• Define patterns for cross-chain mints/burns, canonical token mapping, replay protection, and exit/rollback strategies.

7) Reliability, Observability & DevOps

• Establish SLOs/SLIs (issuance latency, confirmation finality, reconciliation accuracy).
• Set up observability (metrics, logs, traces, on-chain event monitors, MEV/sandwich detection).
• CI/CD for contracts and infra, env promotion (dev/test/stage/mainnet), canary releases, infra as code (Terraform).

8) Leadership & Collaboration

• Partner with Product, Treasury, Compliance, Security, and Trading to roadmap delivery.
• Mentor engineers on smart contracts, cryptography basics, and blockchain performance trade-offs.

Vendor/platform evaluation & build-vs-buy decisions.

Qualifications:

• 1215+ years

  in software engineering with

  46+ years

  building

  blockchain

  systems at scale.
• Hands-on smart contracts in Solidity (EVM) and/or Rust (Cosmos SDK/Solana); deep knowledge of token standards, proxies, and upgrade patterns.
• Proven architecture of stablecoin/tokenization components (issuance, reserves, oracles, attestation) or trading systems (exchange connectivity, SOR, market data).
• Strong grasp of custody/MPC/HSM, wallet segregation, and key lifecycle management.
• Security-first mindset: threat modeling, audits, formal methods/fuzzing exposure.
• Experience with cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP), containerization, infra as code, and event/data pipelines (Kafka/PubSub).
• Practical knowledge of KYC/AML/Travel Rule, sanctions screening, and blockchain analytics tooling.

Nice to Have

• Experience with interoperability (IBC, Axelar, Wormhole, LayerZero) and rollups (OP Stack, Arbitrum, zk).
• Knowledge of market microstructure, MEV dynamics, gas strategies, simulation/backtesting.
• Payment rails, on/off-ramps, fiat treasury ops, reconciliation with ledgers/ERP.
• Certifications: CFA/FMI (for treasury), CAMS, CISM/CISSP, CKA, or Ethereum Developer credentials.