Engineering Manager

You will build and lead the engineering team behind new online stock trading product, from zero to launch and beyond. This is a founding engineering leadership role on a greenfield product in a domain where correctness is not negotiable: orders, positions, and money must be right every time, under latency and market-hours pressure. You will hire the team, set the technical direction, and own delivery of a platform that handles real customer capital.

What you’ll do

Build and lead the trading engineering team from the ground up: hire, mentor, and grow engineers, and set the bar for a domain where a bug is a financial loss, not a ticket
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 the connectivity decisions that come with them
Own reliability and correctness under market conditions: latency budgets, capacity for open and close and volatility 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

Requirements

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

Benefits

Immediate, large-scale impact on a high-growth business
Top-of-the-market compensation packages
Work alongside top regional talent, with team members from Talabat, Careem, Etisalat, and more