Co-Founder & CTO — AI-Driven Fintech Platform Builder

Sanabil Studio; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meaningful equity

Pre-seed capital via SAFE

Legal, finance, HR backbone

Sanabil Studio network

Investment Committee oversight

Accelerated learning curve

Job summary

Sanabil Studio seeks a Co-Founder & CTO for A27 to own architecture and engineering from early product to scalable platform. You’ll lead AI-enabled products, build a modern data platform, and drive secure, compliant systems for private capital markets.

You will collaborate closely with the CEO and founding team in Riyadh, shaping a tokenization-ready roadmap while ensuring reliability and strong security across the stack.

Qualifications

• Shipped AI/ML or data-intensive products into production.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals with AI/data platforms.
• Experience in fintech, financial services, or regulated domains.
• Proven track record turning complex data into reliable tools with business impact.
• Led engineering teams in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture and engineering roadmap from early product to scale.
• Lead development of AI-enabled products turning unstructured data into structured intelligence.
• Build and operate a modern data platform for ingestion, processing, structuring, serving, and monitoring financial data.
• Drive responsible AI with model monitoring, explainability, and human-in-the-loop when needed.
• Build integration layers with financial institutions, market participants, and data providers.
• Establish technical standards across code quality, CI/CD, observability, reliability, and docs.
• Build security, privacy, and data-governance foundations for enterprise procurement and regulatory needs.
• Make build-versus-buy decisions for infra, data providers, and core components.
• Lay groundwork for tokenization of real-world assets including blockchain architecture considerations.
• Hire, develop, and lead a high-performing engineering and data team in Riyadh.
• Collaborate with CEO, customers, and compliance to translate real financial workflows into product.

Skills

AI/ML experience

Data platforms

Engineering leadership

Fintech domain

Security & compliance

Job description

Sanabil Studio seeks a Co-Founder & CTO for A27 to own architecture and engineering from early product to scalable platform. You’ll lead AI-enabled products, build a modern data platform, and drive secure, compliant systems for private capital markets.

You will collaborate closely with the CEO and founding team in Riyadh, shaping a tokenization-ready roadmap while ensuring reliability and strong security across the stack.