[Hiring] Head of Engineering @Strattmont

Role Description

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 great engineers in the door, set them up to do their best work, and ship a regulated-grade platform on a predictable cadence.

• Team build and hire.
• 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.

You are not fixing a broken organization. The team is small, healthy, and specialized. Your job is to amplify it, not restructure it.

Qualifications

• 7 to 12 years total software engineering experience.
• 4-plus years on a custody platform or key management system at a regulated entity.
• Hands-on credibility with at least one of: HSM lifecycle management, MPC / TSS systems, or threshold signing protocols.
• Has owned a team of 15+ engineers at peak.
• Hired 10-plus engineers personally, including at least one Senior-plus leader.
• Owned the engineering side of one SOC 2 Type II or equivalent regulated audit cycle.
• On-call experience on a production custody or payments system that moved real money.
• Articulates a leadership philosophy unprompted, with at least one example of changing your mind on it.
• Comfortable working with a hands-on, technical CTO.
• English fluency, written and verbal.

Requirements

• Direct regulator-interface experience as the engineering-side representative (SAMA, NYDFS, FCA, MAS, VARA, OCC, FINMA, BoE).
• Authored or contributed to a public technical standard, RFC, IACR paper, or audit-facing trust-center publication.
• Open-source authorship in custody-relevant primitives (MPC libraries, signing services, key-management tooling).
• Has run an acquisition integration: M&A engineering diligence and post-deal team merge.
• Comfort with Go (our primary backend language) and Rust (custody-critical paths).
• Has held a Head of Engineering or VP Engineering title before.

Benefits

• A foundational seat in the GCC's emerging digital-asset infrastructure platform.
• Direct ownership of the engineering organization you help build, with founder-level access.
• A real custody platform moving institutional capital today, not a research prototype.
• Headquartered in Riyadh, at the center of the most ambitious regional financial expansion in the world.