Team Lead - Trading

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Team Lead - Trading based in United States.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role focused on building and scaling high-performance algorithmic trading infrastructure.

You will lead a small engineering team while remaining deeply involved in coding, architecture, design reviews, and production operations.

The role combines people leadership with ownership of systems where latency, reliability, correctness, and throughput are critical.

You will shape the technical direction and roadmap, translating complex business goals into well-scoped engineering initiatives.

You will work across frontend, backend, databases, distributed systems, and low-level performance optimization.

Collaboration spans product, operations, compliance, clearing, and engineering teams in a distributed, remote-first environment.

This is an opportunity to influence both the technology and the growth of an engineering team working on sophisticated trading systems.

Accountabilities

• Own the technical direction and architecture of trading-related services, making informed trade-offs while considering long-term scalability, maintainability, and performance.
• Lead roadmap planning and delivery by translating ambiguous business objectives into prioritized, sequenced engineering work and ensuring predictable execution.
• Stay hands-on with development, contributing code, participating in design reviews, and maintaining a high technical standard across the team's systems.
• Manage day-to-day engineering execution, including planning cycles, removing blockers, tracking work, and maintaining clear visibility for stakeholders.
• Own production reliability, latency, throughput, and correctness targets, including on-call health, incident response, and follow-through on corrective actions.
• Hire, onboard, mentor, and develop engineers through regular 1:1s, feedback, performance management, and career development.
• Collaborate closely with product, operations, compliance, clearing, and other engineering teams to deliver cross-functional initiatives.
• Establish strong engineering practices around system design, observability, benchmarking, documentation, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Senior- or Staff-level software engineering experience with a proven track record of leading engineers, either as a formal people manager or technical lead.
• Previous professional software engineering experience within trading or exchange environments, such as OMS, EMS, exchanges, market making, algorithmic trading, or quantitative trading.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers, provide constructive feedback, and raise the technical capabilities of a team.
• Strong track record delivering complex systems, including defining scope, sequencing work, managing trade-offs, and making pragmatic decisions under ambiguity.
• Strong coding experience across low- and high-level languages such as C/C++, Go, Zig, Rust, Java, Scala, or Python.
• Deep knowledge of low-latency and high-throughput optimization, concurrency, distributed systems, scalability, high availability, databases, and algorithms.
• Experience with messaging queues and message brokers, service-oriented architectures, system abstraction, and object-oriented data modeling.
• Experience developing and implementing Order Management Systems (OMS) and Risk Management Systems (RMS).
• Strong analytical and data-oriented problem-solving skills, with the ability to reason about complex technical and operational challenges.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to work effectively with non-engineering stakeholders.
• Comfortable working with ambiguity, limited process, and the fast pace of an early-stage technology environment.
• Experience with financial markets, exchanges, broker-dealers, clearing, financial ledgers, or related infrastructure is highly valuable.
• Familiarity with FIX protocol, observability, tracing, continuous profiling, benchmarking, statistical or quantitative analysis, and production trading systems is a plus.
• Experience with major cloud platforms, particularly GCP, as well as Docker and Kubernetes, is beneficial.
• Experience hiring and building engineering teams from a small base and working with distributed teams across time zones is advantageous.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and stock options.
• Health benefits.
• One-time USD $500 home-office setup allowance for new hires.
• USD $150 monthly stipend provided through a company payment card.
• Remote work environment with a globally distributed team.
• Opportunity to lead and shape a high-impact engineering team working on trading technology.
• Significant hands-on technical ownership across architecture, performance, reliability, and product delivery.
• Equal-opportunity workplace committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce.