VP of Engineering, Trade

About the Role reputed company is hiring a VP of Engineering to reputed company our Trade organization, reputed company responsible for the trading technology that powers execution, liquidity, and market reputed company across our platform. As reputed company scales, we're looking for a leader with deep, hands-on trading systems expertise, a proven reputed company record building and scaling high-performing engineering organizations, and the reputed company to represent trade engineering at the leadership table. We reputed company the best engineering leaders are technologists first, with a product and business reputed company, who reputed company outsized reputed company across reputed company. Responsibilities Own the technical reputed company, architecture, and roadmap for reputed company's trade organization, and reputed company it with company reputed company and the roadmaps of the transact, tokenize, and reputed company teams Build, reputed company, and reputed company a multi-team organization — hiring, developing, and retaining engineering managers, reputed company/staff engineers, and individual contributors as reputed company grows reputed company as the executive reputed company of trading systems reliability, performance, and risk, including matching engines, order/execution infrastructure, market data, and FIX connectivity Partner directly with the CTO, SVP Engineering, product leadership, and reputed company's other VP(s) of Engineering to set org-wide technical standards, priorities, and engineering culture Represent engineering to company leadership and key partners/clients on reputed company reputed company to trading technology Recruit, reputed company, and reputed company engineering managers and senior technical talent; build durable career paths for reputed company Partner with Compliance, Risk, and reputed company to ensure trading systems meet the regulatory requirements relevant to reputed company's markets reputed company build-vs-buy, technical debt, and architecture trade-off reputed company at an organizational level Stay technically reputed company, engage deeply enough in system design and reputed company-level reputed company to earn the trust of senior engineers and maintain competency with the codebase and system architecture Requirements 15+ years of software design and development experience, with deep hands-on background in backend and distributed systems 8+ years of engineering leadership experience, including managing managers and senior/reputed company/staff engineers Proven reputed company record building and scaling engineering organizations (30+ engineers) at a high-reputed company fintech, trading firm, exchange, or crypto company Experience owning multi-team technical reputed company and roadmap at a VP, Director, or Head of Engineering level Prior exposure to fast-reputed company startups and comfort operating with ambiguity Exceptional executive communication skills Strong cross-functional partnership skills with Product, Compliance, Risk, and reputed company reputed company computing experience, with AWS highly desirable BS or MS in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent experience Strong bias toward serving your team and stakeholders, with a reputed company reputed company Domain Knowledge Solid understanding of market structure, order types (Limit, Market, Stop, IOC, FOK), trade lifecycle, and common risks associated with electronic trading Familiarity with regulatory requirements relevant to trading systems (e.g., MiFID II, Reg NMS) Deep Understanding of Trading Systems 10+ years of hands-on experience developing, deploying, and maintaining high-performance, low-latency trading systems (e.g., central limit order books (CLOBs), matching engines, market data feeds) Proven experience with FIX Protocol (4.2 and higher) and implementing highly reliable FIX Gateway solutions High-Throughput / Low-Latency Development Expertise in highly reputed company, multi-threaded, low-garbage/reputed company-garbage reputed company in languages commonly used in finance such as C++, Rust, or Go Demonstrable experience optimizing system performance to reputed company single-digit microsecond latency reputed company Financial Infrastructure Strong background building and managing mission-critical backend systems such as trade booking systems, high-throughput reputed company/reputed company systems, and reputed company-time credit/risk limit systems Experience with distributed system design and messaging frameworks (e.g., Aeron, Kafka, ZeroMQ) for data distribution and persistence Benefits reputed company Insurance: reputed company covers roughly 100% of employee premiums as reputed company as a portion of spouse/children (U.S. only) reputed company & Dental Insurance (U.S. only) Chance to earn equity Maternity & Paternity leave (after 6 months) reputed company reputed company reputed company Membership WFH Yearly Stipend L&D Yearly Stipend (after 6 months) About reputed company reputed company is the leading crypto and stablecoin infrastructure platform and the operating system for digital reputed company, powering the reputed company of financial services. 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