Join Souq, and help build a new capital market that unlocks the economic power of the long-tail of retail investors, regardless of social class, investment size, or technical proficiency.

Souq was founded on one idea: Token economies represent the first opportunities for members to share in the financial upside of the app economies they frequent. Souq is lowering barriers to access and participate in DeFi. Our goal is to build the products and services that ensure an open financial system where participants can thoughtfully invest in the economies they love. Recently we completed our $3.3m pre-seed financing to pursue this goal.

What we are building

Problem

Single dApp token staking exposes users to significant downside risk
Maximizing staking reward rates requires long-term lockup periods
Lockups and time vesting rewards limit position exit opportunities
Positions with accrued value are illiquid and not composable across DeFi
As a network scales, effective monetary governance is hard to coordinate

Solution

Souq is pioneering the first cross dApp liquid staking through the creation of a new financial vehicle we have termed Liquid Staking Vaults (LSVs). This new synthetic stakes across an index of token economies according to a fixed and transparent on-chain investment strategy. Market participants can maximize time-locks and reward rates while maintaining the flexibility to exit positions through a dedicated AMM pool.

Opportunity

What you’ll do

We’re seeking a CTO to provide company-level engineering leadership that inspires the team and multiplies execution capability to chase ambitious consumer product development innovations within the DeFi space. Reporting to Founder & CEO JonPaul Vega, our CTO will take part in shaping company, product and organization strategy, with responsibility over technical delivery of new products. We’re seeking a strategic leader who understands company goals and translates those into a vision and roadmap for the engineering organization.

Responsibilities include:

Understand the current product vision as laid-out by the Executive Team, utilize team and knowledge to generate the tech that best serves the company's immediate needs as well as 2-5 yr goals
Lead the strategy for technology platforms, partnerships and external relationships
Responsible for setting the culture and cadence of the engineering team, fostering a strong culture, increasing product velocity, and achieving schedule predictability as the company moves forward with our aggressive growth targets
Manage and optimize infrastructure assets to satisfy internal financial targets
Create overall technology standards and practices and ensure adherence
Keep abreast of new Blockchain and DeFi trends and best practices in the technology landscape
Take the initiative in thought leadership, innovation and creativity
Hire, develop and mentor technical talent to meet company objectives
Partner with founders on business and product evolution from ideation, design, architecting systems, and process.

Requirements

9+ years of progressive engineering experience; 4+ years managing technical teams.
Comfortable with CI/CD, APIs, ETLs, python, node.js, SQL, and React. AWS and GCP familiarity.
Proven impact at an established company and demonstrated ability to establish best practices for an effective engineering culture. Successfully can self manage, develop, and mentor up to 15+ engineers.
Experience developing, managing and growing a geographically dispersed engineering team
Experience building financial oriented blockchain projects, preferably with Solidity
Experience working in fintech, retail or institutional
Biases for planning, ensuring outcomes are clear, and documentation is the status quo. Proactively seeks to solve misalignment through communication, setting up minimal process guard rails and continually refining our systems of organization.
Can construct and deliver a clear and compelling narrative to any level of audience (founders, investors, customers and employees)
Technical ability to run code reviews, execute and manage agile process, hire all levels of developers, and construct an engineering organization to scale effectively
This role is a blend of providing technical leadership and personally contributing hands-on coding / engineering (35% coding, 30% tech architecture and strategy, 35% eng team and process management.)

The successful candidate will likely fit in to one of the profiles below. In either case the candidate will come from a reputable company and be able to have some involvement in code reviews and hands on developement (when required).

Profile 1 - Stronger Leadership, Less Solidity Technical Ability

Previous fintech experience required
Experience managing technical teams greater than 15 engineers
2+ years of successfully building and launching blockchain projects within the EVM ecosystem
Biases for planning, ensuring outcomes are clear, and documentation is the status quo. Proactively seeks to solve misalignment through communication, setting up minimal process guard rails and continually refining our systems of organization.
Can construct and deliver a clear and compelling narrative to any level of audience (C-suite, investors, customers and employees)
Technical ability to run code reviews, execute and manage agile process, hire all levels of developers, and construct an engineering organization to scale effectively

Profile 2 - Stronger Solidity Technical Ability Requirements

Previous fintech experience is a plus
Experience managing technical teams greater than 5 engineers, with 2+ years in a EVM blockchain context
2+ years writing Solidity and implementing complex math, in a financial context
2+ years of successfully building blockchain projects within the EVM ecosystem, strong preference for financially oriented projects.
Technical ability to run code reviews, execute and manage agile process, hire all levels of developers, and construct an engineering organization to scale effectively

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