Technology Engineering Manager/Equity Trading
Financial Services industry leader has an immediate need for a Senior Engineering Manager with experience building low-latency equity trading platforms and services, to join their growing New York team. If you are a highly skilled and experienced Equity Trade Execution Leader, this is your chance to lead a world-class engineering team building a high volume, multi-asset trading platform for B2B and B2C markets. This individual will be responsible for driving the technical vision, architecture, and development to ensure it meets the highest standards of performance, reliability, and scalability.
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage a team of software engineers, providing mentorship, guidance, and performance evaluations.
- Foster a collaborative and high-performance team environment.
- Set clear goals and help the team prioritize tasks.
- Develop and implement the technical strategy and roadmap.
- Ensure trading system architecture is scalable, efficient, and robust.
- Oversee the design, implementation, and deployment of new features and system updates.
- Ensure code quality through code reviews, unit testing, and continuous integration practices.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Product Management, QA, and Operations.
- Ensure the trading system meets uptime and performance requirements.
- Implement monitoring and alerting systems to detect and resolve issues proactively.
Experience
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field required (or equivalent prior experience)
- 10+ years of software engineering and architecture building low latency trading platforms, tools, and solutions including 3 years in a team management role.
- Expertise with low latency, equity electronic trading platforms and systems including design, build, and maintenance.
- Experience with equity trading, FIX protocol, market data feeds, OMS, C++ and Java
- Experience with cloud computing platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) is a plus.
Required Skills
- Hands on experience designing and building low latency trading platforms with C++ and Java.
- Deep understanding of algorithms, data structures, and software design principles.
- Understanding of financial trading compliance and regulatory requirements for global equity markets.
- Knowledge of market structure, real-time trade data, exchange connectivity, financial data, and messaging.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced environment.
