Senior Engineering Manager, Fortary Platform

About the role

Senior Engineering Manager, Fortary Platform, based in India, is a remote senior engineering leadership role focused on building institutional-grade digital asset infrastructure. You will lead multiple engineering teams responsible for custody, transaction authorization, key management, wallets, and blockchain integrations, while owning the technical architecture and roadmap for a distributed MPC custody platform. Day-to-day work combines distributed systems, applied cryptography, security, and regulated financial technology, partnering with Product, Security, Business Development, and executive stakeholders to align technology with customer and regulatory needs.

What you’ll do

• 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

What you’ll bring

• 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, NIST, and AML/KYC, with awareness of regulatory environments such as SE
• 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

Nice to have

• 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

Skills

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
• Opportunity to work closely with senior executives, institutional customers, security specialists, and regulatory stakeholders