Director of Software Engineering

• At least 10 years of software-engineering experience, including five or more years in a technical leadership position. \n

• Leadership experience within a proprietary trading firm, hedge fund, market maker, investment bank, exchange, or similarly demanding trading environment. \n

• Proven hands-on experience building or optimizing high-performance, low-latency trading systems. \n

• Strong programming ability in C++, Rust, or another high-performance systems language. \n

• Experience with multithreading, concurrency, distributed computing, networking, and performance optimization. \n

• Strong understanding of the complete electronic-trading lifecycle, including market data, pricing, order management, execution, risk, positions, and clearing. \n

• Demonstrated success managing and mentoring engineers in a fast-paced, production-critical environment. \n

• Ability to establish priorities, manage timelines, and deliver complex technical initiatives. \n

• Strong communication skills and the ability to make sound decisions in ambiguous situations.

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• Own the end-to-end architecture and delivery of a high-performance, low-latency trading platform. \n

• Lead the greenfield development of market-data, connectivity, execution, pricing, routing, and risk systems. \n

• Establish the technical strategy and make key architectural decisions across the trading stack. \n

• Remain hands-on by writing and reviewing critical code and resolving complex latency, throughput, and performance issues. \n

• Lead, grow, and mentor a high-performing engineering organization. \n

• Set development priorities, establish timelines, manage dependencies, and ensure the delivery of production-quality systems. \n

• Drive continuous improvements in latency, throughput, reliability, scalability, and operational resilience. \n

• Partner closely with traders, quantitative researchers, infrastructure engineers, and business stakeholders. \n

• Introduce AI-assisted development practices that improve engineering workflows, tooling, testing, and delivery. \n

• Establish and enforce engineering standards covering testing, CI/CD, monitoring, observability, security, and production support. \n

• Identify and mitigate technical, operational, and delivery risks. \n

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• Willingness to remain technically engaged while leading the broader engineering function. \n

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Preferred Experience

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• Background within high-frequency trading, electronic market making, systematic trading, or quantitative finance. \n

• Experience building trading infrastructure across equities, futures, commodities, derivatives, digital assets, or other high-frequency markets. \n

• Experience developing systems that connect to multiple exchanges, venues, or liquidity sources. \n

• Knowledge of real-time market-data processing, smart order routing, automated execution, pricing, and risk. \n

• Exposure to on-chain trading, decentralized finance, or tokenized real-world assets is helpful but not required. \n

• Experience creating new trading platforms or replacing legacy trading infrastructure.