Chief Technology Officer (CTO) – AI-to-AI Micropayments

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November 4

🏄 California – Remote

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⏰ Full Time

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👨‍💼 Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

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We partner with disruptive organizations to help identify and attract talent. A boutique recruitment agency that focuses on blockchain and web3. We enjoy networking with Web3 and decentralization enthusiasts and help them find their place in the decentralized world.

1 - 10 employees

Founded 2019

📋 Description

• Design and steward the technical foundation for a machine-native payments layer. • Architect systems, define standards, and mentor contributors. • Ensure engineering decisions align with broader strategic direction. • Define the system-level architecture for agent-centric payments. • Translate cryptographic and academic research into secure, performant, and modular protocol components. • Standardize a framework for agent-to-agent and agent-to-service payments. • Lead or advise in the implementation of PoC agents. • Define payment flow primitives that support machine coordination, access control, and service gating across decentralized infrastructure. • Define and own the technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for the micropayments protocol. • Co-develop the technical roadmap with the CEO, Head of Research and Cryptography team. • Balance rapid product iterations with long-term scalability and integration viability. • Serve as an internal thought leader and external evangelist. • Establish robust processes for code quality, dev tooling, review, and testing. • Shape the technical team structure; hire, mentor, and align contributors.

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of experience building distributed systems, ideally with a focus on scalability, protocol engineering, or financial infrastructure. • Comfort with bridging the gap between research and implementation, taking ideas from whitepapers to running systems. • Technical leadership in early-stage environments, preferably within Web3, fintech, or systems infrastructure. • Strong proficiency in Rust or Go, with working knowledge of smart contract development and on-chain execution, ideally in Solidity. • Familiarity with agent-based orchestration frameworks, coordination economies, or embedded AI tools. • Previous experience building payment protocols or protocol abstraction services. • Strong grasp of payment flow architecture, including on-chain/off-chain interactions, cryptographic commitments, state channel design, and wallet infrastructure. • Clear and rigorous communicator; able to guide architectural decisions, explain tradeoffs, and pitch technical visions across stakeholder groups.

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