Development Team Lead

Job Overview

About the Role:

The team:

Based in Stockholm, our engineering team is an autonomous unit of developers, DevOps engineers, and QA specialists responsible for designing, building, running, and supporting a core OSTTRA product.

We operate on total ownership: the team that builds the platform also runs and scales it. As Engineering Team Lead, you will drive technical decisions, establish engineering practices, and mentor a high-performing group of technologists. Beyond your immediate team, you will serve as a key technical voice across the broader organization—driving tool and process improvements, shaping internal partnerships, and fostering cross-team collaboration.

This role offers a dual impact track: deepening your hands-on architectural expertise while sharpening your executive leadership capabilities.

Responsibilities and impact:

• Technical Leadership & Ownership: Take end-to-end accountability for the architecture, security, scalability, and operational health of our core platform.

• Engineering Excellence: Define and enforce standards for clean code, architecture patterns, automated testing, and CI/CD pipelines across front-end and back-end ecosystems.

• People & Team Development: Coach, mentor, and grow engineers across diverse technical domains, promoting a culture of psychological safety, continuous learning, and high performance.

• Cross-Organizational Influence: Partner with product management, enterprise architecture, and internal/external tech vendors to align engineering strategy with business goals. Drive process and tooling improvements across the wider engineering organization.

• Operational Readiness: Lead by example in production operations, participating in and structuring the team’s on-call rotation to maintain high platform availability.

What’s in it for you:

• High-Impact Architectural Influence: Directly shape our technical roadmap—driving decisions on microservice architecture, multi-region data locality, continuous deployment pipelines, observability standards, and modern front-end frameworks.

• Modern Tech Stack & AI Integration: Expand your technical breadth using tools like Kubernetes, Go, Java, Python, and scalable datastores (Relational & NoSQL), while collaborating to establish and refine our AI-driven engineering practices.

• Leadership & Career Growth: Sharpen your leadership capability through close collaboration with peers across global offices, backed by an autonomous environment where your team is empowered to self-organize and innovate.

• Global Scope, Autonomous Execution: Build and scale market-leading solutions for global financial markets within a culture that prioritizes psychological safety, continuous learning, and mutual support.

• Purpose & Social Impact: Engage in meaningful company-wide social and environmental initiatives, contributing to sustainable tech practices and community impact.

• Develop our AI Engineering practises together with colleagues and the Team to ensure our engineering approaches evolve as needed

What we’re looking for:

Fundamental requirement:

• Engineering Leadership: Demonstrated experience leading software engineering teams, with a track record of coaching individuals and managing delivery.

• Technical Depth: 7+ years of full-stack software development experience with deep domain knowledge in backend architecture, frontend frameworks, and distributed systems.

• Architectural & Business Acumen: Ability to translate complex business and financial requirements into resilient, scalable software architectures.

• Operational Mindset: Strong sense of ownership regarding the full software lifecycle—design, deployment, observability, and production support.

• Communication & Collaboration: Exceptional communication skills with the ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and articulate complex technical trade-offs.

• On-Site Collaboration: Ability to work from our Stockholm office at least 3 days per week.

Additional preferred requirements:

• Project Delivery: Track record of leading complex, multi-stream technical projects from inception to production.

• Capital Markets Domain: Experience or strong interest in financial markets, post-trade technology, or fintech infrastructure.

The location: Stockholm, Sweden

Right to work requirements:

This role is limited to persons with right to work in Sweden

Our Benefits: Global vision, local impact

At OSTTRA, our benefits philosophy offers a market-competitive package that reflects our position as an industry leader. We want to ensure you feel valued, secure, and empowered wherever you are in the world.

Our approach is built on three core pillars:

• Global foundations: We provide a baseline of excellence across all our offices, focusing on comprehensive Health & Wellness, Financial Security, and Work-Life Balance. No matter your location, you are part of a culture that prioritizes your holistic well-being.

• Locally tailored: We benchmark in each market to ensure our packages are genuinely competitive where you live and work.

• Flexibility and growth: We empower you to work in a way that suits your life. This includes a hybrid working model, generous leave policies, and a commitment to your continuous professional development.

The Trust employee ownership plan

Every employee at OSTTRA is an owner, and a member of The Trust, our employee ownership programme. Our distinct culture encourages colleagues to think and act like owners and raise the bar constantly.

This plan reflects our belief that when we work together to build a stronger, more valuable organisation, then all colleagues should benefit from the value we create.

About OSTTRA

We build and operate the infrastructure that the world’s post-trade financial system runs on. Launched in 2021, we have unified more than 20 years of heritage and expertise from four industry leaders into a single, integrated business.

Today,we operate a trusted network that connects thousands of market participants to streamline end-to-end workflows, from trade capture through portfolio optimisation.We translate industry change into workable process, engineering an open, intelligent ecosystem that removes friction and reduces risk for the global markets.

Our distinct ownership culture is underpinned by four behaviours: boldness, curiosity, accountability, and collaboration. In 2025 we were acquired by KKR, one of the world’s most successful private equity firms, and are on a journey of growth and impact.

Joining our team now is a unique opportunity - you will help to shape the next generation of post-trade, transform shared infrastructure into shared benefit, and accelerate your own career. Learn more at www.osttra.com.

Equal opportunity employer statement at OSTTRA:

We are committed to fostering a connected and engaged workplace where all colleagues have access to opportunities based on their skills, experience, and contributions. Our hiring practices emphasise fairness, transparency, and merit, ensuring that we attract and retain the best talent. By valuing different perspectives and promoting a culture of respect and collaboration, we drive and operate the infrastructure that the world’s post-trade financial system runs on.