Head of Engineering - Miza

Overview

The Role

• What you'll own here.
• Own the technical roadmap — define what gets built, in what order, and why as we ship our core investment management platform.
• Scale the engineering team from \~6 today to whatever we need, with the structure and culture to match.
• Set up engineering processes that don't feel like bureaucracy and build an environment where good engineers want to stay.
• Work closely with product and ops to turn requirements into running software, including complex transaction lifecycles.
• Own SLAs, monitoring, and incident response — the "nothing catches fire" mandate lives with you
• Make architectural calls: when to extract services, how to handle the transition from manual to automated settlement, how to integrate new banking partners.
• Drive platform reliability as real money flows through the system every day.
• Our stack is
• TypeScript/Node.js backend, PostgreSQL, and Redis, with a mobile app and admin panel as clients.
• We care deeply about type safety, async processing, financial correctness, and building systems designed to scale before they need to.

The Profile

• You're probably a fit if…
• You have 8+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3 years leading engineering teams of 10+ people.
• You've built and operated production systems in TypeScript/Node.js. NestJS experience is a big plus.
• You've worked in fintech or a regulated industry where correctness isn't optional, ledgers, reconciliation, or transaction processing in investment management, banking, or payments
• You're comfortable with async architectures: message queues, idempotency, failure modes, and eventual consistency in financial contexts
• You have strong PostgreSQL experience, schema design for financial data, read/write separation, and data integrity at every layer
• You can translate a product requirement into a system design that's both correct and shippable, and you push back on scope when needed
• You're based in Saudi Arabia or genuinely excited about relocating; this role is on-site
• Bonus: experience with tRPC, bilingual/RTL applications, capital markets, or Saudi/MENA fintech regulatory requirements

The Environment

• What working here actually looks like.
• Founding Team Energy: You're not joining a mature org. You're joining a founding team at a critical growth phase, where your decisions shape the architecture, culture, and direction of engineering at Miza.
• High Stakes: High Trust Real money flows through this platform. You'll have the autonomy to make the calls that matter and the accountability that comes with it.
• Backed and Building: Miza is backed by Sanabil Venture Studio, giving you the resources and support of a studio while operating with the speed and ownership of a startup.

What You Get From Us

• Competitive pay: A package that reflects your experience and the market, not a lowball with "equity upside" as the excuse.
• Premium gear day one: Everything you need to hit the ground running, set up and ready before your first morning. Mentorship that matters: Individual career development from people who've actually built and scaled ventures.
• Venture upside: The chance to grow with Miza as it scales — and be recognized for what you helped build.
• An accelerated curve: You'll learn more here in 12 months than most roles offer in three years.