• 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 • 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 • 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. • 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