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At the company, we have established ourselves as a prominent player in the digital asset space since our inception in 2017. Our team of over 180 members from 42 nationalities is primarily remote, with hubs in London, Brussels, and Singapore. We are involved in trading on more than 80 exchanges, and our services include market making, options trading, high-frequency trading, OTC, and DeFi trading desks.
The Engineering Lead plays a crucial role in aligning business objectives with technical execution. This position combines hands-on engineering, architectural leadership, and team enablement. The Engineering Lead ensures delivery excellence by actively contributing to the codebase, guiding the team technically, and aligning execution with long-term strategic goals.
Job Description:
- Act as the technical point of accountability for the Service Market Making Business Unit, balancing strategic thinking with pragmatic delivery.
- Champion collaboration across teams, ensuring alignment between product, design, QA, and engineering.
- Mentor and develop engineers through structured feedback, fostering growth and autonomy within the team.
Key Responsibilities:
- Drive Delivery and Alignment: Partner with the Head of Engineering to manage entire work-streams, ensuring alignment of architecture and engineering decisions with business strategy.
- Balance Code and Leadership: Contribute directly through coding while focusing on architecture design, peer reviews, and communication.
- Mentor and Elevate Engineers: Provide feedback through design and code reviews, support skill development, and empower junior and mid-level engineers.
- Technical Leadership: Guide system design, scalability, and performance optimization.
- Maintain Standards: Uphold engineering best practices and coding guidelines, working with QA to embed automation in the delivery pipeline.
- Codebase Health: Manage technical debt and lead refactoring initiatives for operational excellence.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, designers, and QA engineers to define scopes and plan deliveries transparently.
- Risk Management: Anticipate technical risks and propose mitigations to safeguard delivery timelines.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years in a Technical Leadership position, with expertise in architecting high-concurrency, low-latency trading systems.
- Advanced proficiency in Rust; working knowledge of Node.js (JavaScript/TypeScript) and Python is advantageous.
- Experience with data-intensive architectures, real-time data pipelines, and AWS environments for ultra-low-latency workloads.
- Hands-on experience with containerizing applications and managing Kubernetes clusters.
- Familiarity with GitOps workflows and software engineering best practices.
- Strong leadership and mentoring skills with excellent communication abilities.
- Deep knowledge of finance and trading, particularly within the cryptocurrency sector.
Language Requirements: Fluent in English.
Our Offer:
- Competitive salary package with various benefits based on engagement method (employee or freelancer).
- Autonomy in time management with flexible working hours.
- Opportunity to work in a diverse and inclusive environment where merit and performance dictate hiring, rewarding, and promotion processes.
We welcome candidates who are driven, collaborative, and passionate about building scalable outcomes in the cryptocurrency industry.
