CTO / Technical Lead - Waybridge

Job description

Waybridge, backed by Ergonia, is building an institutional borrow / lend protocol on Canton Network. We have an operational mainnet validator, existing smart contract code, and active counterparty relationships with institutional participants. We are looking for a CTO/Technical Lead to take ownership of the protocol architecture, inherit and evolve our existing codebase from an external dev shop, and build the engineering team as the company scales. The Role: This is a co-builder position. You will own the full technical surface of a financial protocol: from DAML smart contracts on a distributed ledger, through the backend settlement and accounting layer, to the institutional-grade frontend dashboards. You are equally comfortable auditing inherited code, designing a new module, and closing a senior engineer hire. The four pillars below define what we need. Responsibilities: 1. Financial System Architecture Waybridge is a financial protocol, not a typical web app. Every data model, state transition, and API must be designed with the rigor of a system that manages real institutional positions. 2. Fullstack Engineering (NestJS + Next.js) Our stack is NestJS on the backend, a Rust inde...