Senior Engineering Manager, Fortary Platform

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Engineering Manager, Fortary Platform based in Germany.

This is a senior engineering leadership opportunity focused on building institutional-grade digital asset infrastructure.
You’ll lead multiple engineering teams responsible for custody, transaction authorization, key management, wallets, and blockchain integrations.
The role combines distributed systems, applied cryptography, security, and regulated financial technology.
You’ll own the technical architecture and roadmap for a distributed MPC custody platform built for institutional scale.
You’ll work closely with Product, Security, Business Development, and executive stakeholders to align technology with customer and regulatory needs.
As a hands-on leader, you’ll shape engineering practices, manage critical incidents, and develop high-performing engineering leaders.
The role offers the opportunity to influence a highly secure platform operating at the intersection of Web3 and institutional finance.

• Lead multiple engineering teams delivering custody, transaction authorization, key management, wallet infrastructure, and blockchain integration capabilities.
• Own the architecture, technical strategy, and roadmap for a distributed MPC custody platform, including disaster recovery, governance, transaction policies, and security controls.
• Partner with Product, Security, Business Development, and executive leadership to prioritize engineering investments based on customer, regulatory, security, and business requirements.
• Support multiple product deployment models, including managed-platform and licensed-software environments.
• Establish engineering practices that meet demanding security, compliance, resilience, and governance requirements as the platform progresses toward regulated financial-institution status.
• Lead engineering response to production incidents, outages, security events, and sensitive key-management scenarios, ensuring effective resolution and continuous improvement.
• Hire, mentor, and develop engineering managers and senior engineers while establishing a strong leadership culture across the organization.
• Drive the effective adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices to improve productivity, development quality, and delivery across engineering teams.
• Ensure technical decisions balance scalability, resilience, security, compliance, and long-term maintainability.

Requirements:

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 5 years leading teams responsible for production-scale, secure distributed systems.
• Proven experience owning large-scale, security-critical platforms from architectural design through production delivery and ongoing operation.
• Deep expertise in modern cryptography and secure key-management technologies, particularly MPC, threshold signatures, Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), and Hardware Security Modules (HSMs).
• Strong experience designing and operating cloud-native systems, including Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, observability, and resilient infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of security and compliance frameworks relevant to regulated financial services, including SOC 2, ISO 27001, NPM, and AML/KYC, with awareness of regulatory environments such as SEC, CFTC, OCC, and MiCA.
• Experience with digital asset infrastructure spanning areas such as custody, trading, staking, treasury management, and blockchain settlement.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical organizations while maintaining a high engineering and security bar.
• Excellent communication skills, with the credibility to work effectively with executives, institutional customers, auditors, regulators, and other senior stakeholders.
• Experience scaling an engineering organization toward a chartered or licensed financial entity is a strong advantage.
• Background delivering both managed-service and licensed-software products is desirable.

Benefits:

• Senior leadership opportunity with significant ownership of technical strategy, architecture, and organizational growth.
• Opportunity to build institutional-grade digital asset infrastructure across custody, trading, lending, staking, and treasury use cases.
• Work at the intersection of blockchain technology, distributed systems, applied cryptography, and regulated finance.
• Global, expert-led environment bringing together specialists across engineering, finance, economics, marketing, and law.
• Opportunity to work closely with senior executives, institutional customers, security specialists, and regulatory stakeholders.
• Strong focus on engineering innovation, security, resilience, and AI-assisted development.
• Equal-opportunity workplace committed to diversity, inclusion, and hiring based on qualifications, merit, and business needs.
• Compensation is dependent on factors including experience and geographic location; the final offer may vary accordingly.