Vice President of Software Engineering
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About the Role
Solidrange is seeking a Vice President of Software Engineering to lead the engineering organization, set technical direction, and ensure delivery of secure, scalable cybersecurity and GRC platforms.
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Responsibilities
- Actively contribute to architecture, code reviews, and critical implementation decisions across .NET, Angular, FastAPI, Django and Python stacks
- Lead the design and hands on delivery of AI capabilities: LLM integrations, agentic workflows, and RAG pipelines
- Own the technical roadmap alongside Product, translating business requirements into engineering plans
- Set engineering standards for code quality, CI/CD, security patterns, testing discipline
- Mentor and grow engineers across the team
- Own reliability and scalability of enterprise grade production systems
- Make fast, well reasoned build vs buy and architectural trade off decisions
- Report to the executive team on engineering health
Requirements
- 12+ years of hands on software engineering experience, with majority spent writing and architecting code
- Actively coding or architecting within the last 2 years
- Deep, production proven experience in at least two of: .NET/C#, Python/FastAPI, Angular
- Shipped AI features to production: LLM integrations, RAG pipelines, or agentic systems
- Strong grasp of enterprise software requirements: multi tenancy, RBAC, SSO/SAML, audit logging, data isolation, compliance controls
- Leadership experience that grew naturally from technical credibility
- Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent
Full Job Posting
Company Description
- Solidrange is a cybersecurity company based in Riyadh focused on building modern platforms for cybersecurity and enterprise GRC challenges
- Mission: reduce human driven cybersecurity risks, simplify compliance and risk management, support seamless business continuity
Role Description
- Full time, hybrid role based in Riyadh with flexibility for some work from home
- Leads the engineering organization, setting technical direction, defining best practices, ensuring delivery of secure, scalable, reliable cybersecurity and GRC platforms
- Oversee software development teams, collaborate with product management, work with architecture leaders
- Drive engineering execution, improve development processes, establish metrics for quality, performance, security
- Partner with executive leadership on IT strategy, resource planning, budget
- Mentor engineering leaders, foster inclusive, high performing culture
What You'll Own
- Actively contribute to architecture, code reviews, and critical implementation decisions across .NET, Angular, FastAPI, Django and Python stacks
- Lead the design and hands on delivery of AI capabilities: LLM integrations, agentic workflows, and RAG pipelines built into product features
- Own the technical roadmap alongside Product, translating business requirements into concrete, implementable engineering plans
- Set engineering standards from a place of experience – code quality, CI/CD, security patterns, testing discipline – and model them yourself
- Mentor and grow engineers across the team; your technical depth is what makes your feedback actionable
- Own reliability and scalability of enterprise grade production systems – SLAs and uptime are your problem too, not just ops
- Make fast, well reasoned build vs buy and architectural trade off decisions without needing a committee
- Report to the executive team on engineering health with the credibility of someone who knows the codebase firsthand
What We're Looking For
- 12+ years of hands on software engineering experience – the majority of your career has been spent writing and architecting code, not managing it from a distance
- Actively coding or architecting within the last 2 years; we will ask about recent technical work in the interview process
- Deep, production proven experience in at least two of: .NET/C#, Python/FastAPI, Angular with working familiarity across all of them
- Shipped AI features to production: LLM integrations, RAG pipelines, or agentic systems built on frameworks like LangChain, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel, or equivalent
- Strong grasp of enterprise software requirements: multi tenancy, RBAC, SSO/SAML, audit logging, data isolation, and compliance controls
- Leadership experience that grew naturally from technical credibility
- Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a closely related field is required
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, with a strong technical focus is preferred
- Relevant certifications are a plus: Microsoft Azure (AZ 204, AZ 305, AZ 400), AWS Solutions Architect, Google Cloud Professional, or AI/ML certifications
Nice to Have
- Experience in BCM, GRC, risk management, or adjacent compliance driven SaaS verticals
- Familiarity with frameworks such as ISO 22301, ISO 27001, SOC 2, or NIST as they relate to product and engineering decisions
- Open source contributions or a public portfolio of technical work
- Experience with AI safety, responsible AI practices, or AI governance in enterprise contexts
- Prior experience at a scale up navigating the transition from startup to enterprise
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