Founding CTO / Technical Lead

Founding CTO / Technical Lead – Messenger & Stablecoin Payments

Full-time or fractional-to-full-time/Company: Ihsan

Ihsan is building a global messenger and super app designed to support a strong, connected and economically empowered Muslim community. Their next major product, Ihsan Pay, is a self-custodial stablecoin payment system designed to feel as simple as a modern bank account.

Responsibilities:

- Own the overall technical architecture of the Ihsan platform
- Design and review the architecture of Ihsan Pay
- Lead and supervise the internal engineering team and recruit/mentor engineers
- Ensure Ihsan Pay remains genuinely self-custodial and define wallet-signing/account-recovery models
- Establish engineering, security, testing and documentation standards
- Manage infrastructure, deployment, observability and disaster recovery
- Coordinate security audits, penetration testing and build procedures for reconciliation and incident response

Requirements:

- Minimum 8 years professional software-engineering experience
- Previous experience as a CTO, VP Engineering, Head of Engineering, principal engineer or technical architect
- Experience leading and hiring engineering teams
- Strong backend and distributed-systems knowledge and experience with secure, high-availability consumer platforms
- Strong understanding of payment systems, financial infrastructure or digital assets
- Experience designing systems with APIs, webhooks, queues, reconciliation and idempotency
- Excellent written and verbal communication and willingness to remain technically hands-on

Nice to have:

- Experience with consumer fintech, payments, remittance, wallets or neobanking
- Experience with Solana, stablecoins or blockchain payment infrastructure
- Experience with Privy, Turnkey, Web3Auth, Fireblocks or MPC wallets
- Experience integrating KYC, on/off-ramp or card-issuing providers
- Experience with React Native, TypeScript, Go and PostgreSQL
- Experience with messaging or real-time communication systems
- Experience scaling systems to millions of users
- Previous founding-engineer or early-stage CTO experience

Stack:

React Native, TypeScript, Go, PostgreSQL, Solana

Benefits:

- Shape a new messenger and payment ecosystem from an early stage
- Own major architectural decisions and lead the future engineering organization
- Build technology intended to create meaningful global impact
- Competitive compensation and meaningful long-term equity participation

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