Location: Remote, or Relocation to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Qualifiche, competenze e l'esperienza necessaria per questo ruolo sono disponibili nella descrizione completa riportata di seguito.
Reports to: Co-founder / Chief Technology Officer
Type: Full-time
About Us
The company is the digital‑asset custody and infrastructure platform for the GCC. We hold institutional crypto safely, settle transactions across chains, and expose all of that as a developer API and a regulated‑grade institutional console.
Why This Role Exists
Engineering at our company is at a turning point. The team is small, specialised, and shipping reliably. Over the next 18 to 24 months we will scale the engineering organisation, mature delivery operations, and continue earning trust with regulators and tier‑1 institutional customers.
The Head of Engineering is the operational leader of that function. You will partner closely with the CTO, who owns technical strategy and architectural direction for the custody platform. You will own everything it takes to get excellent engineers in the door, set them up to do their best work, and ship a regulated‑grade platform on a predictable cadence.
What You’ll Own
* Team build and hire. From top of funnel through closing offers. Comp bands, levels framework, performance cycles, and headcount planning into Series A and beyond.
* Engineering operations. On‑call, incident command, post‑mortem culture, code‑review standards, deployment hygiene, release cadence.
* Delivery. Translate the technical roadmap into quarter‑over‑quarter delivery against named outcomes. Surface and close execution risk early.
* Audit and regulator‑facing engineering posture. SOC 2 Type II completion, SAMA‑aligned controls, future ISO 27001 and regulatory licensing readiness.
* Cross‑functional leadership. Partner with Product, Compliance, Security, and the CTO on roadmap, sequencing, and trade‑offs.
* Engineering culture. Hiring bar, internal mobility, professional growth, retention. Make us a place senior engineers stay and recommend.
* Amplify the existing healthy, specialised team rather than re‑structuring it.
Must‑Haves
1. 7 to 12 years total software engineering, with 4‑plus years on a custody platform or key‑management system at a regulated entity.
2. Hands‑on credibility with at least one of: HSM lifecycle management, MPC/TSS systems, or threshold signing protocols.
3. Owned a team of 15+ engineers at peak, directly as line manager or through embedded engineering managers.
4. Hired 10+ engineers personally, including at least one Senior‑plus leader.
5. Owned the engineering side of one SOC 2 Type II or equivalent regulated audit cycle.
6. On‑call experience on a production custody or payments system, with post‑mortems that altered architecture.
7. Articulates a leadership philosophy unprompted, with at least one example of changing one’s mind on it.
8. Comfortable working with a hands‑on, technical CTO who will