Engineering Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Poland, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Construct and lead the trading engineering team from inception.

• Recruit, mentor, and develop engineering talent.

• Define the technical strategy and architecture for the trading platform.

• Oversee the order lifecycle and execution, market data ingestion and distribution, positions and portfolio management, as well as settlement and reconciliation processes.

• Influence decisions on broker, exchange, and market data integrations and connectivity.

• Ensure reliability and accuracy under market conditions, addressing factors such as latency budgets, capacity, idempotency, and reconciliation.

• Collaborate with product, compliance, risk, and finance teams on regulatory aspects, KYC, AML, and audit requirements.

• Implement stringent testing, controlled release processes, incident response protocols, and audit-grade observability throughout the order path.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of experience in software engineering, including at least 3 years in leadership roles, with a focus on hiring and developing engineers.

• Proven experience in building or managing online stock trading, brokerage, or capital markets systems; successfully launched order management, execution, market data, or settlement systems in a production environment.

• Proficient understanding of order types and lifecycle, market data feeds, clearing and settlement processes, corporate actions, reconciliation, and audit requirements for regulated trading.

• Strong hands-on technical acumen for architecture evaluations and assessing correctness/latency trade-offs.

• Proficient in TypeScript, Go, Postgres, and AWS/local private cloud hybrid environments.

• Experience collaborating with compliance and risk teams within a regulated financial product environment.

• Ability to work swiftly on a greenfield product while maintaining accuracy and control measures.

• Experience launching a retail trading or investment product from the ground up (preferred).

• Familiarity with FIX protocol or connectivity with exchanges and brokers (preferred).

• Experience in MENA or emerging-market financial services, including market entry and understanding local regulatory frameworks (preferred).

🏝️ Benefits

• Immediate, substantial impact on a rapidly growing business.

• Competitive compensation packages above market standards.

• Collaborate with top regional talent, including team members from Talabat, Careem, Etisalat, and more.