At **[Cura]** (<https://curalabs.bio/>), we're building a tokenized biopharma
protocol — bringing real scientific assets on-chain with milestone escrows,
programmable royalties, and governance primitives for drug development. My co-
founder and I have started highly successful (billion+ valuation) companies in
health tech / biopharma (Formation Bio / Canvas Medical). We're building
something that solves a massive problem in drug development financing we've
experienced in our careers.
We’re backed by **[Alliance]** (<https://alliance.xyz/>) and looking for a
full-time founding engineer who enjoys building clean, security-conscious
systems from first principles. For the right candidate with significant
experience, we're open to bringing you on as Chief Technology Officer.
We're looking for someone scrappy who can take a leadership role in helping us
build our application, including:
* **Marketplace platform UX and backend** for our biopharma research partners to list assets that provides scientific, regulatory, and commercial information and tracks research progress.
* **Tokenization of drug assets.** Over time, we want to fully represent the key financial / legal elements (milestone payments, royalties, etc.) of our biopharma assets on-chain. Initially, we are representing these elements offchain; the onchain component is a fungible token that represents structured financial interest in a given asset.
* **Basic trading infrastructure for our investor base** (mostly accredited US investors) to interact with drug asset tokens. These are higher volume, lower frequency interactions.
We may also introduce a CURA project token and onchain project treasury over
time and we'd expect you to take a leadership role in building this.
To date we've built a non-crypto version of the app, partnered with
researchers to onboard drug assets, and worked to secure a legal framework for
biopharma tokenization; we're particularly keen to bring on someone who can
focus on the crypto part of our build both from a design and engineering
perspective.
The right candidate for this role has significant experience building enduring
blockchain applications. Particular preference is given to folks with
experience at leading defi protocols and / or those who have built high
quality blockchain applications with significant real users. We haven't yet
decided which chain(s) we will deploy on initially; you should be excited to
work with us to make this and other key decisions!
We're a distributed / remote team who occasionally meet in NYC (not a
requirement for this position).
This is an opportunity to take a leadership role shaping something new at the
intersection of finance and biopharma. Competitive compensation and equity /
token interests are offered depending on your seniority and preferences.