Head of Engineering - Web3 Consumer Applications

**About the Company** We’re an early-stage consumer crypto startup (small, single-digit team) founded by repeat founders with a prior successful exit and institutional backers. We’re building a novel consumer market that blends predictive mechanics with attention-driven incentives and leverages capabilities only crypto-native systems can enable. We move fast, and every hire will shape product, culture, and technical direction. **Responsibilities** - End-to-end responsibility for the engineering organization: recruit, hire, onboard, manage, and scale the team. - Ship production code daily. This is a maker/manager role, not a meeting-heavy position. - Define and drive engineering objectives, roadmaps, and delivery cadence with quality metrics. - Make architecture-level decisions across our stack: Go, Rust, TypeScript, Next.js, React Native. - Partner directly with the founding team to translate product strategy into technical execution. - Establish engineering standards, processes, and practices that enable fast, safe shipping. **Required Skills** - Proven experience hiring, managing, and scaling engineering teams at early-stage startups. - Deep familiarity with crypto/Web3 concepts such as prediction markets, token dynamics, wallets, and on-chain mechanics. - Strong hands-on coding skills; you ship reliable production systems. - Solid technical fluency with Go or Rust, TypeScript and web/mobile frameworks (Next.js, React Native). - Track record of owning objectives and delivering results on schedule. - Excellent written and asynchronous communicator who can align stakeholders and leverage team to produce clear documentation. - Experience making fast trade-offs (build vs buy, infra vs product) in a high-velocity environment. - Comfortable integrating AI coding assistants (for example, Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) into the dev workflow while maintaining security and code quality. **Preferred Skills** - Experience writing Solana or Ethereum smart contracts. - Background shipping consumer-facing products with rapid release cycles. - Prior founder or technical co-founder experience. **Pay range and compensation package** 225k -275k base + equity/tokens