Founding Engineer (Blockchain / DeFi for Biopharma)

At Cura, 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 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.