Engineering Manager – Trading Platform

Client: Digital Zone

Employment Type: Full-time

Location: Remote

• 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 own reliability and correctness under market conditions: latency budgets, latency 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.

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 tradeoffs around correctness and latency in AWS/local private cloud and hybrid environments. Comfortable in a TypeScript, Go, Postgres, and AWS/local private cloud hybrid environment.
• 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 and local regulatory context.