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<p><b>Master Architect (VP of Architecture)</b></p><p><b>– Equity Partner –</b></p><p><b>Location:</b> Remote</p><p><b>Jurisdiction:</b> Global (Must be eligible to work in USA/Canada)</p><p><b>Minimum Commitment:</b> 20 hours per week</p><p><b>Core Function:</b> Systems Architecture & Technical Leadership</p><p><b>Department:</b> TechCore – Technology Development</p><p><b>Reports To:</b> Chief Technology Officer (CTO)</p><p><br></p><p><b>This is not a job. It’s a stake in the spine of a new ecosystem.</b></p><p><b>What You Put In Is What You Get Out</b></p><p>This is a founder-level architecture and systems leadership role. As Master Architect, you don’t just shape the infrastructure—you encode the logic, resilience, and elegance of the entire technology ecosystem supporting Anime Universe.</p><p><b>Minimum commitment: 20 hours/week.</b> If that’s not feasible, we completely understand—but this isn’t the right role for now.</p><p><b>This is an equity partner role. That means:</b></p><ul><li>No upfront cash compensation</li><li>Equity (shares) at founding partner level (standard vesting)</li><li>Future token-based rewards (pending legal clearance)</li><li>Salary activates with revenue-based milestones</li><li>Remote-first, async-native, deep-focus engineering culture</li></ul><p><br></p><p><b>Let’s Be Absolutely Clear</b></p><p>This isn’t a support engineer role.</p><p>This isn’t a patch-and-maintain job.</p><p>You are the systems mind. The architectural guardian. The blueprint master.</p><p>Your work will define how infrastructure scales, how components talk, how value flows, and how future layers plug in.</p><p>You will help shape the core technology foundation for creators, communities, and cross-disciplinary teams.</p><p><br></p><p><b>Overview</b></p><p>We’re recruiting a Master Architect to serve as the <b>foundational systems designer</b> and <b>technical synthesizer</b> for Anime Universe’s core platform. You’ll own the design and direction of a multi-layered technology stack—spanning <b>cloud-native systems, real-time infrastructure, data orchestration, and monetization architecture</b>.</p><p><br></p><p>This is a <b>VP-level role</b> for someone who has architected large-scale, future-resilient systems across industries. You are viewed by peers as a <b>Master Architect</b>—the person others call when structure, strategy, and scale must align.</p><p>You don’t just connect pieces—you define the logic that governs how everything functions and evolves.</p><p><br></p><p>This is your seat at the high table of technology creation, working side-by-side with the CTO to transform ideas into scalable, elegant systems.</p><p><br></p><p><b>What You’ll Own</b></p><p><b>System Architecture Leadership</b></p><ul><li>Design first-principles architecture across platform services and user-facing applications</li><li>Unify logic and structure across infrastructure, tooling, and deployment environments</li></ul><p><b>Blueprint Development</b></p><ul><li>Author executable architecture documents for internal platforms, developer tools, and content delivery systems</li><li>Ensure systems are <b>scalable, modular, and evolution-ready</b></li></ul><p><b>Integrity & Modularity</b></p><ul><li>Architect modular stack layers that balance adaptability with performance</li><li>Maintain cross-domain system cohesion and interface consistency</li></ul><p><b>Standards & Validation</b></p><ul><li>Validate frameworks against technical excellence standards and internal benchmarks</li><li>Continuously refine to meet quality, performance, and maintainability thresholds</li></ul><p><b>Cross-Functional Collaboration</b></p><ul><li>Partner with engineers, product teams, data leads, and content tech stakeholders</li><li>Align diverse teams under one architectural vision while enabling domain autonomy</li></ul><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><b>What We’re Looking For</b></p><p><b>Experience & Leadership</b></p><ul><li><b>15+ years of experience</b> in technical architecture across cloud, platform, infrastructure, or enterprise systems</li><li>You’ve held senior technical leadership roles (e.g. <b>Principal Architect, VP of Engineering, or Chief Architect</b>) and built high-impact systems at scale</li></ul><p><b>Technical Fluency</b></p><ul><li>Deep experience in <b>cloud services, backend architecture, API design, and orchestration pipelines</b></li><li>You navigate across infrastructure, protocols, and platform systems with clarity</li></ul><p><b>System Thinking</b></p><ul><li>High-agency thinker who anticipates long-term complexity and system evolution</li><li>You design for <b>sustainability, performance, and composability</b></li></ul><p><b>Next-Gen Paradigm Fluency</b></p><ul><li>Familiarity with emerging models (e.g., tokenized logic, distributed computation, adaptive runtimes)</li><li>You understand how infrastructure can power new forms of digital value, interaction, and creativity</li></ul><p><b>Vision Alignment</b></p><ul><li>You architect with purpose—balancing what’s needed now with what’s inevitable next</li><li>You design with the confidence of an engineer and the foresight of a strategist</li></ul><p><br></p><p><b>Compensation</b></p><p><b>Equity (Shares):</b> Founding partner-level equity</p><p><b>Token-Based Rewards:</b> Future layer pending legal review</p><p><b>Future Salary:</b> Activates with major revenue/funding milestones</p><p><b>Remote First:</b> Fully distributed, async-native, autonomy-respecting team</p><p><br></p><p><b>Our Promise</b></p><p>You won’t just build systems. You’ll <b>shape the backbone</b> of the Anime Universe platform.</p><p>Your fingerprints will be on every tool, every layer, every user interaction and developer workflow. If you’ve been waiting to architect something that defines how creators build, collaborate, and scale—<b>this is your moment.</b></p><p></p>