Engineering Manager

About the role

Requirements

• What you'll bring
• - 8+ years in software engineering with 3+ years leading engineering teams, including hiring and growing engineers.
• - Direct experience building or operating online stock trading, brokerage, or capital markets systems. This is a hard requirement: you have shipped order management, execution, market data, or settlement systems in production.
• - Working fluency in the domain: order types and lifecycle, market data feeds, clearing and settlement, corporate actions, and the reconciliation and audit expectations that come with regulated trading.
• - Strong hands-on technical judgment to lead architecture reviews and make correctness and latency tradeoffs. Comfortable in a TypeScript, Go, Postgres, and AWS/local private cloud hybrid environments.
• - Experience working alongside compliance and risk in a regulated financial product.
• - The judgment to move fast on a greenfield product without compromising the correctness and controls the domain requires.
• Nice to have
• - Experience launching a retail trading or investing product from zero.
• - Exposure to FIX protocol or exchange and broker connectivity.
• - MENA or emerging-market financial services experience, including market entry and local regulatory context.

Responsibilities

• What you'll do
• - Build and lead the trading engineering team from the ground up: hire, mentor, and grow engineers, and set the bar for a domain where a bug is a financial loss, not a ticket.
• - Own the technical strategy and architecture for the trading platform: order lifecycle and execution, market data ingestion and distribution, positions and portfolio, settlement and reconciliation.
• - Drive broker, exchange, and market data integrations, and the connectivity decisions that come with them.
• - Own reliability and correctness under market conditions: latency budgets, capacity for open and close and volatility spikes, idempotency, and reconciliation that proves the books are right.
• - Partner with product, compliance, risk, and finance so regulatory, KYC, AML, and audit requirements are designed in rather than retrofitted.
• - Establish the engineering practices this domain demands: rigorous testing, controlled release, incident response, and audit-grade observability across the order path.

Skills

• TypeScript
• Go
• PostgreSQL
• AWS
• private cloud
• order management
• order execution
• market data feeds
• settlement
• reconciliation
• financial services compliance
• incident response
• systems design
• Broker/Exchange connectivity
• FIX protocol