Trading Platform Tech Lead with Engineering Manager experience

Pine Software Technology Ltd is a software company specializing in trading technology solutions for regulated brokers and trading firms. We build SaaS products that support electronic trading, brokerage operations, risk management, and financial data analysis. We are looking for an experienced and hands-on Technical Lead Trading Platform to own and lead our core trading infrastructure. In this role, you will act as the technical and operational lead for the Trading Platform direction, overseeing 4 engineering teams. You will bridge strong technical authority with people leadership, driving core re-architecture programs while growing engineering leads and ensuring high-delivery standards.

Responsibilities:
— Own the target architecture of the Trading Platform direction: Market Data, OMS/EMS, WPF trading terminal and news streaming — within the company-wide architectural principles, including design reviews, the ADR register and final say on architectural decisions local to the direction.
— Lead the two ongoing full re-architecture programmes of Market Data and OMS/EMS, including migration staging, dual-run and reconciliation strategy, transition criteria, rollback planning and delivery without interruption of the trading session.
— Lead and develop four Engineering Leads, including one-on-ones, goal setting, performance management, development plans, calibration of their teams’ performance reviews, compensation proposals, hiring and separation.
— Own delivery predictability across four teams, including planning, capacity management, delivery and quality metrics, and regular reporting to the Head of Engineering.
— Own the engineering bar of the direction, including coding standards, code review practices, definition of done, and technical debt management across the teams.
— Oversee production operations of the direction, including release management, SLA compliance, incident response, and post-mortem follow-through; coordinate the work of the development teams with L2 support.
— Act as the primary technical point of contact for business, product, design, QA and SRE within the Trading Platform direction: architecture, technical solutions, feasibility and implementation approach — how things will be built. Scope and priorities remain with the product vertical.
— Own the direction budget and technical roadmap, including headcount planning, vendor and infrastructure decisions within approved limits, and quarterly and annual goal setting.

Requirements:
— Production experience with low-latency, high-throughput systems — market data and/or order routing and execution — at a scale comparable to billions of messages per trading session and thousands of messages per second.
— Deep distributed systems expertise: consistency trade-offs, fault tolerance and failover, backpressure, state replication and recovery, determinism and replay, latency tail diagnostics.
— Proven experience leading a large migration or re-write of a system in production without business interruption, including dual-run, reconciliation and rollback strategies.
— С# or python or C++ at a level sufficient to read code, run design reviews and argue technical decisions on the merits with senior engineers. Writing production code is not part of the role.
— At least 2 years of managing managers — one or more team leads with their own teams as direct reports. Managing a single team of engineers does not meet this requirement.
— Demonstrated experience growing an engineer into a team lead, and handling a team lead who was not performing.
— Experience in an environment with L2 on-call, SLA commitments and formal incident management, including building a blameless post-mortem culture.
— People management practices: performance management, development of managers, hiring, capacity planning and prioritization.
— English — upper-intermediate or higher
— Ukrainian — native.

Nice to have:
— FIX protocol, multicast market data feeds, exchange market data protocols, kernel bypass / user-space networking.
— WPF or other desktop client experience.
— Experience fixing engineering processes that formally exist but do not work as intended.
— Prop trading or market making domain background.

Company offers:
Care from Day One — medical insurance starting from your first day, including dental care, massage services, and professional psychological support.
Work-Life Balance — 25 days of paid vacation + 30 days of paid sick leave.
Investment in Your Energy — Partial reimbursement for sports and fitness activities.
Growth & Learning — Coverage for English or Ukrainian language courses and dedicated professional development budget.
Knowledge Library — Access to office books and the Kuka online library.
Island Relaxation — Up to 14 days per year at the company villa in Cyprus.
Relocation support to Cyprus.

Join the Pine Software team, where your talents and aspirations will be recognized. We offer a dynamic work environment, opportunities for professional growth, and support at every step of your career path.
Start your journey with us — apply today and take the first step toward your bright future!
Pine Software is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds and experiences.

Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.