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Our team of FX specialists implement well-considered currency strategies, offering dedicated support to help clients manage their payment needs - whether for goods, services, or direct investments.\nIn 2023, Monex facilitated $309 billion in FX turnover, managed $10.7 billion in assets, and processed 8.5 million transactions. With offices across North America (Canada, the US, and Mexico), Asia (Singapore), and Europe (the UK, Spain, and the Netherlands), we serve over 66,000 clients worldwide.\nBy combining global reach with deep local market expertise, Monex enhances businesses with a suite of financial solutions and FX market analysis to help optimise efficiency, mitigate currency risk, and protect margins in an increasingly complex financial landscape. Our corporate client experience is further enhanced by our dedicated sector expertise across a range of industries.\nJob Overview\nThe Lead Software Engineer (Product) is responsible for all custom development of proprietary products within Monex International, including core critical systems and future innovations. Our platforms are key to our current and future success as a company that allows us to simplify global payments and support businesses to manage their foreign exchange risk.\nThe role will be part of the technology leadership, responsible for shaping and delivering the overall technology strategy for Monex International.\nKey Responsibilities & Accountabilities:\nThe Lead Software Engineer (Product) will define and deliver all aspects of our software engineering strategy.\nYou will build and lead a world-class product engineering organisation that consistently and rapidly ships secure, reliable, products that deliver measurable business value. You will establish a culture of craftsmanship and automation-driving high deployment frequency, low change failure rate, short lead time, and fast MTTR-while meeting regulatory obligations and ensuring operational resilience.\nProvide strategic direction for our platforms to deliver corporate payments, API modernization, cloud, and real-time payment initiatives.\nPartner with business and delivery teams to ensure scalable, secure, and compliant technology solutions.\nAct as a trusted technology advisor to clients and internal leadership.\nHire, develop, mentor and retain top talent against the established engineering career paths, as well as working with strategic development partners to build a high-performance global team.\nPartner with Product colleagues to align delivery roadmap to strategy/OKRs, ensuring predictable delivery and outcomes.\nDrive adoption of modern architectures (microservices, event-driven systems) and cloud-native technologies.\nInstitutionalise modern engineering practices and drive metrics-led improvement using DORA + cost-to-serve.\nOwn CI/CD strategy (pipeline standardisation, policy as code, quality gates, security scanning) and implement test automation at all levels.\nEmbed DevSecOps and SRE practices across the Engineering team: SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, incident management, post-mortems, capacity & resiliency engineering.\nEnsure compliance with data and IT security and country specific regulations.\nStakeholder communications - on strategy and deliveries to ExCo level.\nSecurity & ComplianceEmbed security-by-design principles into all engineering processes.\nEnsure compliance with regulatory frameworks such as MiFID II, PSD2, and GDPR.\nCollaborate with Information Security and Risk teams to maintain robust controls and audit readiness.\n\nAlign engineering processes and technology stacks across merged entities to achieve operational efficiency and scalability. \nBusiness Knowledge / Technical Skills\nExpected 5 - 10 years in product engineering roles, at least 3-5 years in financial services\n>3 years as the lead engineering manager on a modern custom financial services critical product (e.g. a core platform), with direct leadership of end-to-end software engineering (including cloud, platform engineering, APIs etc.\nPreviousexperience of working within a regulated investment firmor strong equivalent demonstrable knowledge within a relevant Financial Services firm;\nStrong knowledge of the regulatory environment in which an FX firm operates; 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