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. - Design and own the position lifecycle engine: origination, funding, accrual, partial repayment, recall, and closure - Architect a shared accounting layer that serves multiple lending modules - Model settlement flows, collateral custody, yield attribution, and reconciliation for bilateral agreements - Ensure correctness guarantees throughout: idempotency, audit trails, and immutable state history 2. Fullstack Engineering (NestJS + Next.js) Our stack is NestJS on the backend, a Rust indexer for ledger events, and React/Next.js on the frontend. You will inherit an existing codebase from an external dev shop and decide what to keep, refactor, or rebuild. - Audit the inherited backend and frontend codebase; determine the refactor-vs-rewrite strategy - Own the backend services layer: RESTful APIs, settlement engine, accounting services, WebSocket feeds - Extend and optimize the Rust indexer for new on-chain event types - Guide frontend architecture for data-dense institutional dashboards (portfolio views, real-time position tracking, yield analytics) - Establish CI/CD, testing standards, and code quality practices across the full stack 3. Smart Contract Architecture (DAML / Canton) The protocol layer runs on DAML, a Haskell-based smart contract language on Canton Network. DAML experience is extremely rare and not required, but direct experience is a major plus. What matters is strong functional programming instincts and the ability to ramp quickly. A production Haskell or Scala engineer can be writing DAML in weeks. - Lead DAML smart contract design for lending and staking modules - Define on-chain vs. off-chain boundaries: what the smart contract enforces vs. what the backend handles - Collaborate with Canton ecosystem partners on staking protocol design and network-level integration - Bring strong functional programming depth (Haskell, Scala) and apply it to contract modeling, type safety, and state machine correctness. 4. Small Team Management You will hire and lead a team of 2-4 engineers. This is not a management-layer role where you delegate and review. You are hands-on, writing code daily, while also recruiting, unblocking, and setting technical direction. - Hire a Senior Backend Engineer and a Senior Frontend Engineer in the first 4-6 weeks - Manage knowledge transfer from the existing external dev shop to your in-house team - Run sprint planning and translate product requirements into engineering execution - Partner directly with the CEO on product-to-engineering decisions, sequencing, and tradeoffs

We are looking to hire ambitious entrepreneurs to start and scale their own startups. We are serial entrepreneurs, for example Paul Müller (founder Adjust, €1.2B exit) and Petter Made (founder SumUp, €8B) who are eager to support outlier personalities and serial entrepreneurs to build €1B+ companies. Our offer: - A salary while you build your startup as you will directly be employed by us. Alternatively, you can opt for up to €500k in funding. - 1:1 sparring with unicorn founders on a weekly basis - Community: Access to the top 0.1% of founders, peers and investors - Team building: Hiring top notch talent supported through our network (over 50,000 professionals) - Distribution: Support in reaching product-market-fit and building up a sales force / marketing machine - Funding support for securing a multi-million euro funding round within 12 months (on average, EWOR Fellows raise > €2M after our Grand Pitch) One of our fellows set a record for Europe’s largest pre-seed round by a first-time founder, securing a €12M pre-seed investment. Tasks - You will own, build, and run your startup in fields such as Defense Tech - You will embark on an extensive personal development journey crafted by unicorn founders and follow a fully customised programme enhancing your goal, time, and energy management - You will receive support in hiring through our network to over 50,000 professionals and advice as well as best practices from serial entrepreneurs - You will receive intensive coaching to make your startup ready to raise millions in funding - You will iterate your product with us until having reached product-market-fit and receive support in building up a sales force or creating a marketing engine respectively Requirements - You are based in Europe or the Americas or open to relocate - You are willing to take full responsibility for your own startup and scale it to €100M+ in revenues - You have excellent communication skills in the English language Join us and build a €1B+ company with us!

We are looking to hire ambitious entrepreneurs to start and scale their own startups. We are serial entrepreneurs, for example Paul Müller (founder Adjust, €1.2B exit) and Petter Made (founder SumUp, €8B) who are eager to support outlier personalities and serial entrepreneurs to build €1B+ companies. Our offer: - A salary while you build your startup as you will directly be employed by us. Alternatively, you can opt for up to €500k in funding. - 1:1 sparring with unicorn founders on a weekly basis - Community: Access to the top 0.1% of founders, peers and investors - Team building: Hiring top notch talent supported through our network (over 50,000 professionals) - Distribution: Support in reaching product-market-fit and building up a sales force / marketing machine - Funding support for securing a multi-million euro funding round within 12 months (on average, EWOR Fellows raise > €2M after our Grand Pitch) One of our fellows set a record for Europe’s largest pre-seed round by a first-time founder, securing a €12M pre-seed investment. Tasks - You will own, build, and run your startup in fields such as Agentic AI - You will embark on an extensive personal development journey crafted by unicorn founders and follow a fully customised programme enhancing your goal, time, and energy management - You will receive support in hiring through our network to over 50,000 professionals and advice as well as best practices from serial entrepreneurs - You will receive intensive coaching to make your startup ready to raise millions in funding - You will iterate your product with us until having reached product-market-fit and receive support in building up a sales force or creating a marketing engine respectively Requirements - You are based in Europe or the Americas or open to relocate - You are willing to take full responsibility for your own startup and scale it to €100M+ in revenues - You have excellent communication skills in the English language Join us and build a €1B+ company with us!

We are looking to hire ambitious entrepreneurs to start and scale their own startups. We are serial entrepreneurs, for example Paul Müller (founder Adjust, €1.2B exit) and Petter Made (founder SumUp, €8B) who are eager to support outlier personalities and serial entrepreneurs to build €1B+ companies. Our offer: - A salary while you build your startup as you will directly be employed by us. Alternatively, you can opt for up to €500k in funding. - 1:1 sparring with unicorn founders on a weekly basis - Community: Access to the top 0.1% of founders, peers and investors - Team building: Hiring top notch talent supported through our network (over 50,000 professionals) - Distribution: Support in reaching product-market-fit and building up a sales force / marketing machine - Funding support for securing a multi-million euro funding round within 12 months (on average, EWOR Fellows raise > €2M after our Grand Pitch) One of our fellows set a record for Europe’s largest pre-seed round by a first-time founder, securing a €12M pre-seed investment. Tasks - You will own, build, and run your startup in fields such as MedTech - You will embark on an extensive personal development journey crafted by unicorn founders and follow a fully customised programme enhancing your goal, time, and energy management - You will receive support in hiring through our network to over 50,000 professionals and advice as well as best practices from serial entrepreneurs - You will receive intensive coaching to make your startup ready to raise millions in funding - You will iterate your product with us until having reached product-market-fit and receive support in building up a sales force or creating a marketing engine respectively Requirements - You are based in Europe or the Americas or open to relocate - You are willing to take full responsibility for your own startup and scale it to €100M+ in revenues - You have excellent communication skills in the English language Join us and build a €1B+ company with us!