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.

Founding Engineer (Blockchain / DeFi for Biopharma)

Cura Labs

Founding Engineer (Blockchain / DeFi for Biopharma)